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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 4 years ago

Not yet, had to put it on hold for now. have been building a few large CNC's for work (and a few other folks) and bought an Ender3 just to keep that moving. Will be re-visiting this soon though. I plan on a total rebuild of this printer and a clone. Want to try to get the panucatt board to work still, but will be ordering a real smoothie too. MC

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 4 years ago

Get in line brother. I said I was sorry for not going with the "real smoothie". Believe me I have been. mc

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

Still no luck. Have tried several sd cards but none will mount to my host PC. The work around seems to be to put the firmware file on the sd card and disconnect the mass storage device settings in the config. My only question here is; is there a specific smoothie firmware for the x5 GT or is it the same as what is on the smoothie github? Found out the hard way that the base config file differs f

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

Hey Diggrr, Yes using all new SD8825's across the board. There is no bridging of the solder posts. I found and fixed the motor problem late last night and started to tune the config file. Everything was good, so I went to bed and left the fine tuning for today. This afternoon I was making progress, the "X" is dialed in and working properly, and "Y" moves and homes correctly. However the endsto

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

Well I finally found the mistake in setting up my X5 GT board. And true to form it was something very simple and obvious that I just overlooked. BTW if you have named the config file on your SD card with added letters or characters it will not be recognized by the board and cause it not to work or respond. This is something clearly mentioned on the smoothie setup pages but if you're a creature o

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

Thanks again Diggrr, Have gone over your config and mine line by line and I'm not seeing anything jumping out to me yet. Even swapped out my power supply for good measure. Everything remains the same. On the note that it is something simple I have missed I'm going to try a couple different text editors for my config file next. Man, I never claimed to be smart but this is making me feel real dum

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

Well I definitely know when and how I put the wrong config file on the card, thanks Diggrr. *Have changed over to the X5-GT config file now and set everything as I think it needs to be for my machine. Have gone back over everything else we discussed also; but still getting the same result. Powered on fine, says it's connected, NO SIGNAL. - What "host" are you using and what settings have you

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

I did just see a change however. I connected the USB cord to a USB3 outlet on my PC and Pronterface refused to connect at 115200 baud. Switched back to USB2 port and it will connect but same issues. Need a different cord I guess

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

- I have an Ethernet add-on board but am not using it on my setup PC. Will prefer not to most of the time. - All PC's are running win10 so no need for driver install from what it says. - Have not tried the USB cable with the ferrite bead. Using high speed cable once used to run CNC. - Baudrates are synced on all. * Have reformatted the SD Card and gone over my config file numerous times. If the

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Re: Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

Thanks Diggrr, Yes I did forget about putting the jumpers on beneath the drivers, appreciate the reminder. The power inputs are connected as per the wiring diagram with loops from one to the other +/- and the yellow jumper is set to 3.3v from get go. I'm still not getting any signal to the board even though it powers up and will connect to Pronterface. I'm getting these error messages; Can't

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Azteeg X5 GT issues - 5 years ago

Hi everyone, I have admired the smoothie setup for a very long time but haven't switched because every azteeg X3 that I've installed has worked flawlessly. Why change what isn't broken right? That being said my personal X3 board somehow got "bricked" recently and thought what better time to finally make the switch and learn the new. (BTW if anyone can fix the X3 I am more than open to discussion

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Re: Educate me please about using HDPE for 3D printing - 7 years ago

Ok so no thoughts or comments.... How about this? Who out there is able to turn these chips into spools of filament for a fee? I have over 40 pounds of the stuff so far from milling one sheet. Need to do something with it. MC

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Educate me please about using HDPE for 3D printing - 7 years ago

Hey all, The wiki claims that HDPE filaments are fickle won't stick to any standard build surface and can be otherwise hard to work with. I have also viewed posts on this forum of HDPE viability being "in the works" by a new upstart . The reason for this post is that in my day work we regularly produce pounds upon pounds of virgin/uniform HDPE [*King Starboard] chips in CNC machining of par

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New PAW Print3r build for my shop - 7 years ago

It has been awhile since my last post here, yet a lot has been going on too. The Orange (PAW 1) build in the You name it post went off to a new owner shortly after being finished which left me to build another. Sadly the plastic parts and overall design of the frame was decent for the small footprint machine, but it really lacked when I tried to go bigger... I still had the "strap" printe

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Wow! What a summer. Sorry for not posting any updates lately folks there's been a lot going on this season. The PAW prototype is humming! I've been putting her through many test and addressing what hasn't worked and strengthening what does. As a proof of concept she absolutely rocks! Despite my initial optimism and championing; I have reverted back to belt drive over the gear racks that were de

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Hey there folks. Wanted to share a couple of short videos of the new machine going through it's first print. Paw first print 1 Paw first print 2 There is still a lot of fine tuning to do but right out of the gate I am really really pleased with how she runs. Since the last photo update I wound up adding a custom cable chain to the design (an entire project in itself). And also had to switch

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Well it's been nearly 3 months since last posting any word on this printer project of mine. I am very happy to finally have an update for the reprap community first. Here is about 7000 words worth of what has been going on. There is sooo much more to come info wise but the cliff notes are as such; - The Alpha design prototype (as displayed here) is better than 85% complete. There is

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Re: Outsourcing/Custom Make Parts to 3D Printer/ - 9 years ago

Actually have been looking for a supplier that can handle the production of my aluminum frame. So far no luck. Take a look at this thread and see if these are things you can do. Thanks. MC

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Ok had to do it twice (of course) but got the extruder mount milled and formed. Last post for a few while the day job resumes.... Have a good week all. MC

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Re: Trading Parts Kits for Plastic - 9 years ago

Here are some pics for reference. Thanks all for looking. MC

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Will Print Parts for Filament - 9 years ago

Hey there all, For the time being I am offering to forum members only; printed parts kits for the PAW PrintR machine design in exchange for filaments. Offer is not limited to printing my own kit. Will print other kits/parts in trade for filaments as well. PM for more info if you are interested. Thanks. MC

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Hey GG, Yeah I should have touched on the bearings sooner. (Pun intended) The printed "bearings" on this design can more aptly be called slide housings as the contact areas on the parts are lined with a slippery thermoplastic film. In this case that film is UHMW High Bond Tape but Rulon, PTFE, and other varieties of tape are also available to accomplish the same goal. The parts as printed ca

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

A few more pics to share tonight.

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Trading Parts Kits for Plastic - 9 years ago

Hey there all, For the time being I am offering to forum members; printed parts kits for this design in exchange for plastics. Offer is not limited to printing my own kit. Will print other in trade for filaments as well. PM to make arrangements if you are interested. Thanks. MC

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Thanks Miertam, Yeah the aluminum frame (for the most part) is all saw cuts. Then of course holes drilled for mounting the printed parts. I did however go a bit funky on the X axis and extruder mount. Those parts require a little more prep to get them ready. Here is the X beam so far; After laying out the cuts to make, I use a 1/4" ball nose end-mill to remove the shaded areas and expose t

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Machine build numero uno: mostly assembled mech frame so far. Once the aluminum parts are cut and bored the assembly rolls really quick! I need to tweak a hole placement or two on the printed part files, but otherwise the build has gone as hassle free as anticipated. The joints are strong and the frame is lightweight and rugged. I'm Uber excited to get this far in the project and hope

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Re: You name it. - 9 years ago

Hi everyone, Its been awhile since posting last, but the printer design is finally complete. I am still flushing out the last few printed parts files however. I have been putting the ready to go STL's on my webpage for folks to look over and will be adding more documentation soon. There's still a lot more to do yet but I hope y'all like the progress so far, thanks for looking. (edit: wasn't

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Re: You name it. - 10 years ago

I know many of you have already experienced this but; I cannot express how completely cool it is to need a custom part for a project at work then come home draw it out and just MAKE it up. **(admin please delete this part if innappropriate) I would like to trade full printed parts kits for this machine design for decent rolls of PLA. Is that reasonable? Interested in black, white, and oliv

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Re: You name it. - 10 years ago

Component (& toy) production is underway. Getting the mech frame parts made up while finalizing the design. The goal is to have the files ready to download in a few more weeks. Will have some component kits too if all stays on course. What's the barter scene like around here? MC

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Re: QU-BD MBE Extruder v9 - 10 years ago

Heck, since my post here last week I wound up rebuilding my hotend and step-struder yet again. This time around I had gained a little experience with printing stuff (kind of) and have trolled in related threads on the subject enough to glean a better understanding of what works and why I think. I know to do it all over again I would definitely opt for buying a quality hotend assembly and pi

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