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A serious suggestion; cut a couple of test/education/calibration melamine pieces into the unused parts of the sheets and then, in the instructions, encourage first-time builders to experiment with them first to get a feel for how hard to tighten and when damage is likely to start taking place. Might ...

Saturate the split with superglue. Should help keep it from spreading. Actually that's a bloody excellent idea! Disassemble the mount, saturate the buggered spot in a suitably watery adhesive, cover with plastic and wood on either side and clamp like a MoFo in a vise to flatten it out as it sets. I ...

Right, mistake corrected. That only took about two hours :-/

Over-torqued my EzStrudel a bit putting it back on and split the melamine around the nut (sigh) but it's still holding so we'll hope for the best. So far the captive nuts in the melamine is my very least favorite bit of the kit.

Now that, right there, if infuriating.

Right, the sticky stepper will have to wait. EzStrudel is assembled with replacement part, everything looks good. Everything but the discovery that I installed the damned top plate upside down. Intentionally. As in I looked at the laser engraved letters and thought 'hmm, they must go on the bottom ...

I think the only reasonable and prudent solution is to resurrect BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

It seems to me like a nylon nozzle cover would solve the 'uncomfortably hard tap' problem. It doesn't have to actually attach to the nozzle itself either, just be centered where the nozzle is centered, and be of a very specific thickness. If SeeMeCNC or E3D wanted to, they could actually turn a clip ...

Question; I notice, having mounted the carriages and adjusted the tension on the belts (yay! progress!), that one of my servos has a slight 'tight spot' in rotation. It's subtle, and with the belt tensioned up correctly it's not obvious (much more apparent with a loose belt), but if I articulate ...

I will say, I don't believe I've ever met a small company with a better handle on customer support.

Hmm. I must have done something to peeve the injection molding gods. My EZ-struder looks to have been either mis-molded or misassembled; It came in the baggie with the clear cover screw tightened down but the cover itself rotated slightly so it was clamped on top of the locating pegs. image3.JPG ...

Actually, given the choice I'll take my fasteners in finest cold rolled Swiss Unobtanium.

barry99705 wrote: White balance must have been off....

Hah!

Right, the replacement trucks are in, all three straight as a die. Now just have to carve out another 10 hours to finish the job!

As with virtually everything else manufactured the screws are most likely made in China and the quality control is virtually non existent which explains why some of the screws have bad threads. The lengths of the screws could probably given a second look at by SeeMeCNC and if they need to be ...

I don't mean to alarm you but it just stopped printing and started sending "Communication timeout during printing, forcing a line
Send: N1096039 M105*35" commands.

For the record, I don't think it was me, I was just watching....

Same exact problem with my included hardware for the fan and the PSU as well (minus the Onyx bed, I haven't got that far yet though it sounds like I probably will) I marked the problem with the fan mount down to overly aggressive nylocks locking up on the thread. I got one of the 4 to go on properly ...

That is an _excellent_ piece of work. I will likely steal most of your idea verbatim when it comes time to build mine! The only component I can see missing would be a controlled fume exhaust port and fan, which of course is somewhat antithetical to the whole heated-chamber thing.

Ooh, you malingering runts! Well that explains a lot. So, when I get my replacement cheapskates and eventually finish my build, and get around to uploading the time lapse, and you watch it so you can make fun of my dreadful process, and about two thirds of the way through you'd swear you saw a ...

Wow, SeeMeCNC support really is fast. I was provided a human-authored response and resolution before I'd even woken up this morning. Kudos to JJ.

Ok, yes, confirmed, I've been working 4.18. The heated plate wiring SNAFU was me reading the bag-BOM rather than focusing on your instructions. When it became clear that the heated bed _used_ to take 12 gauge and there used to be two batches supplied for that purpose (hence the huge solder pads, BOM ...

I'm working off a version dated Feb 4th.

Actually, one other the other ones is definitely slightly off as well. A bad batch I suspect.

Well heck. We've hit a snag. The first 15 hours of the build have gone very well (and been great fun), albeit rather more slowly than you'd expect. I elected to apply two coats of shellac as a moisture barrier which took 3-4 hours on its own. Add to that some friends swinging by to say hi and hang ...

First problem (with solution); The wages of buying cheap-o (~$10) off-brand power supplies from Amazon is apparently very marginal quality control (which is I suppose better than death, so I've got that going for me); image1.JPG image2.JPG They did _just_ enough quality control to catch that the ...

I keep an old-fashioned CO2 extinguisher right next to my printer as well as in the kitchen and machine shop. I once had to use a drychem extinguisher on a boat fire and what the fire did not wreck the fused dry chem destroyed... I have an old Halon extinguisher in my car and i know the limitations ...

Pull out and creep given the small pocket size is the main concern, which is alleviated by kapton wrapping the hotend.another concern is that rtv is messy and slow to change if you have issues. As far as the heater cartridge goes, they have a lower wattage than the power resistors, if you get a ...