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        <title>First prints going badly.</title>
        <description> I ve got my Mendel Prusa i2 up and running  after a few glitches.  I dowloaded a simple test piece from thingiiverse and,fingers crossed, pressed print .  The printer started up ok for the first 6 or 7 layers but then started to drift.  The extruder moved out beyond the original footprint and naturally ended up making a messy blob.  Can anyone suggest what is going wrong?</description>
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            <title>Re: First prints going badly.</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The drift seemed to be mainly in the x axis.  I checked the pulleys and they seemed to be ok.  The x axis belt was loose so I tightened it.  The cables from the hotend might have been fouling so I adjusted their position.  Ill try again tomorrow and see how it goes.   Thanks for the tips.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>imakebiodiesel</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:27:57 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: First prints going badly.</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Check the axis in which the drifting occurred: belt tension, loose gear pulley, underpowered stepper, binding, etc.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ggherbaz</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:33:04 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>First prints going badly.</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I ve got my Mendel Prusa i2 up and running  after a few glitches.  I dowloaded a simple test piece from thingiiverse and,fingers crossed, pressed print .  The printer started up ok for the first 6 or 7 layers but then started to drift.  The extruder moved out beyond the original footprint and naturally ended up making a messy blob.  Can anyone suggest what is going wrong?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>imakebiodiesel</dc:creator>
            <category>Reprappers</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:17:44 -0400</pubDate>
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