An update on my issue. You were right. when i moved the printer i must have jarred the Y access loose. Realigned and its all good now.by jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
I did one thing that seems to be helping, i still need to check my motor voltage and what not, but I did find that I was getting a slight drip from around nozzle head. I found some references that you can use some teflon tape (semi permanent, but I have extras) and that seems to have stopped that tiny drop. That may have been contributing. Seems much less strings and blobs. I ran a test prinby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
Ill probe them when i get back home. Would overheating cause the motors to skip?by jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
ha, sorry that would probably help huh? I used to think it was catching only on drips that were happening, but I have fixed that issue so I can only imagine its catching on something from the previous layer. I can print the 20x20x20 cube no problem. The first few layers all look good so maybe as its getting higher up away from the heat bed maybe the previous layer is too cool? or the hot endby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
Back in april I bought a folgertech prusa i3 kit and put it all together. alot of learning experience hours later I was starting to get some small prints to work. I have since the printed a few small upgrades for the printer to get my tensions in place and all. So I decided to start going to some bigger prints. I have so far been able to get 1 decent larger print to work and it was a simpleby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
Ill definitely check that. I was thinking maybe it was a setting, but Ill check all the nuts and make sure everything is tightened upby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
I am trying to print a case on my prusa i3 printer from folger tech. However, I am noticing that my case is not quite rectangular but more of a parallelogram. the dimensions are right and its consistant through the entire 117 layer print. but it just looks like someone squished my case i printed. I thought it might be the stl file so i printed the lid for it and it was the same. I ran it thby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
PS. It seems to only be on the solid infills. The perimeter layers when it printed those were all right up against each other, no separation.by jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
yep did the calibration. What you see there is the last layers, not the first unfortunately. I will have to redo my calibration i believe now that my heating issues are fixedby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
ah ok. Thank you. I will have to look into that. I replaced my seized up fan last night and printed out a couple more prints. Much better and didn't have to have the big desk fan on it. For the first night since i have been trying to print i did not have to take apart my extruder to fix a jam. However, i did notice this. You can see the attached 2 pictures of the 3d printed mario star xmby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
I am looking at this I am considering taking a shot and modifying it and making it big enough for a larger computer fan, maybe 80mm or so.by jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
I know the fan had been working originally because i remember playing with the settings for it and using the gcode to turn it on and off. But at some point it appears that fan has completely seized up. Never even noticed since I figured it was off due to the auto cooling. I set a small desk fan up to see if that made any difference and printed 2 prints off last night perfectly!! Thank you vby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
I know in slic3r there is a section where i can specify to have the fan on 100% full time instead of the auto cooling. I will give that a shot. any recommendations on a fan shroud for the upper section that may help? I have a TON of computer fans laying around here so i could put a bigger fan/heatsink inby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
Quotelokiwizz I am also a 3d print noob so you can take this or leave it. I also just some what finished a build and was to having jams. Mine was jamming just where the hotend and cold end meet. I found that it was from excessive heat traveling up to the cold end melting the filiment to far up. once cooled it would not remelt. Solution was better fan and fan shroud on the hot end. Some info thaby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
Quotemilkypostman How is it jamming? I'd be interested in seeing how the extruder assembly is all hooked up. Is the hotend maintaining temp? hot end is maintaining constant temp. Do you see the image on my original post? You can see its jammed up near the gear. thanks!by jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
no loud clicking no. I can't even hear the clicking when its jammed, but if i hold on to the filament i can feel it clicking once jammed.by jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants
Good afternoon everyone. First off, let me say I am very happy to have found this forum. Second I am very much a 3d printer newb. I ordered my prusa i3 kit from folger tech a couple weeks ago and it took me quite some time to get it to even be at the point of trying to print. I got things working finally but having a bit of trouble with the filament jamming in my extruder. I have tried toby jbrunk - Prusa i3 and variants