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Assembled my first 3D printer (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by idunnololz@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Spent all weekend assembling this Core One. It probably took 14 hours in total. 12 hours to build and 2 hours to troubleshoot issues. Broke some parts made some mistakes but I finished the build.

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[–] Foexle@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

            
              I wasn't even able to put the printer together without reading the comments pointing to waaay too many flaws in the instructions.
Well, I learned that with the smooth plate the hard way too.
Don't get me started on that one. The nut in the ajustmend-thingy broke loose on mine, after I had to tentioned the belts way too often, cause the Axis bent. I had to saw the screw of at the front to get it out. Whole process took me about a month.
I put the spacer hooks of the heatbed on the wrong way, and changing them when the printer is essembled. Well, a friend who repairs washing mashines for a living helped me out.
The ghost clog is interesting too. I'm on my third nozzle now, trying to clean number two and three. Seems like a clog on the seperation of filament in front of the vulcano-split (high flow) and by the love of god I can't seem to het them unclogged. I soked them in cemecals to break the plastic-chains. The design is so annoying to get to in any way, cause at least as a amateur, you only realize the clog when its too late. (and I know that that might break some cotings of the hardened steel nozzle, but a this point, I tried anything else)
So yea, I hope you're printing adventure is smoother than mine.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oof that sounds rough. I hope it's all fine now.