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Hello All! By putting together things I've read from various threads, I realized that a lot of my printing problems were likely due to moist filament. I purchased my Rostock with a 2 pound spool of ABS. In my excitement I opened it all up. It took me nearly a year to finish my Rostock, and that ...

Hi Everyone! Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere -- I'm going to be trying to print with some Taulman 618 soon. Went to the wood store and picked up the dimensionally closest Poplar board I could find to Taulman's 12" x 12" x 3/8" recommendation which ended up being 12" x 8.5" x 1/4". Not ideal ...

Hi Travelphotog! I've been absent on the forums for a bit, as the summer is when I'm out traveling solid for work. I just saw this post tonight and I was curious what specifically you are using your dial indicator for to calibrate the max? Is it mostly for getting the bed level? Also, how are you ...

Hi Eaglezoar! I read through the thread you linked to and there are a couple of ideas on there that I will look in to. Here are a couple pictures of the print I did that I was referring to in my last post. It's fairly clean, but the crosshatching is sparse. Hence, when held up to the light I can see ...

So I was out in the shop printing a couple more parts today, and I'm experiencing one thing that I'm not quite sure how to fix when slicing. Prints are coming out looking pretty nice, but this nozzle is producing much smaller and more accurate lines. The single wall test printed perfectly at an ...

I just installed a new E3D v5 as well, but the manual I had said it was an EPCOS...I still ended up tweaking a couple of small values in the TYPE 97 thermistor table (the EPCOS' specs were available commented in the thermistor table -- I also verified the commented specs were correct.) Where did you ...

@Eaglezoar - Thanks for the tip! Found it in the firmware, though it was a named slightly differently -- maybe a difference in the 0.91 firmware? In any case, I was able to change it successfully and finish the installation of the E3D Hotend. I'll have more info and pictures to come...but my first ...

Actually ran into one last issue I could use a little help with. I'm trying to follow the instructions for the E3D installation...and it says I need to heat the hotend up to 300 degrees and tighten the nozzle. Repetier seems to be unwilling to let me set extruder temperature any higher than 247. I ...

Time for another update! Replaced the heater cartridge with another that I had and this one seems to be working just fine, so it appears that the one that came with the E3D was probably a lemon. I went to autotune and ran into a small problem. I was encountering a "PID Autotune Failed - Temperature ...

Quick update here: Got my new E3D all wired up and mounted with some steel spacers I found at the local hardware store. My Rostock Max kit had come with 1" spacers. I determined that a good spacing would be 1 3/4". So I grabbed 3/4" spacers from the hardware store. I also had to get longer screws ...

Thanks to both of you for the quick replies! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy and messing up the installation with some simple little thing. I'll check the local hardware store today to make sure they don't have what I want (I think I saw a spacer drawer one time). Failing that ...

Hi Guys! I just wanted to keep this thread up to date in case it is useful for anyone else in the future. I got my E3D v5 Bowden hotend and the Trick Laser J-Mount head (with top plate for E3D Bowden). Brian from Trick Laser also included the J-Head top mount plate in case I ever decide to use a J ...

Hello everyone! I've recently purchased an E3D v5 Bowden Hotend to replace the original SMCNC version that I accidentally bent. You can see my original thread here:http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=4084 Anyway, I'm really just not quite sure how to mount this thing up! I've bought a J ...

Got my Bowden E3D hotend from Filastruder today, which unfortunately is only being sold as a kit right now...so I'll be putting that together over the next day or so while waiting for the tricklaser mounting plate which is also on it's way. Hopefully it will work for the bowden. If not, I'll have to ...

Thanks to all who replied to my last post. I've gone ahead and put in an order for both the Bowden E3D and the TrickLaser mounting plate (I put that it was for the E3D in the purchase notes as instructed). As much as this setback is a bummer, I'm looking forward to trying out a new hotend ...

Well, I've done it again... :( Today I spent some time in the shop working with the Rostock. I checked the towers again with a machinist's square (as best I could without disassembling stuff) and they looked very true. I installed the new Repetier firmware that John posted a few days back, and I re ...

Did some more tests today...this time with kisslicer. I turned the print speed way down to 30mm. Also, I opened up CAD software and created a test cube myself to make sure there was nothing wrong with the model. Same problems as before. Any prints where I set an extrusion width less than around ...

Hi Everyone, Got back out to the shop and did a few more test cubes. 20mm hollow box, repaired in netfabb before sliced. Slic3r settings for the .55mm hollow box: ; layer_height = 0.275 ; perimeters = 1 ; top_solid_layers = 1 ; bottom_solid_layers = 1 ; fill_density = 0 ; perimeter_speed = 60 ...

Hi guys! Thanks for your replies, and sorry for taking so long to get back. I'm not sure why my original picture didn't post, but lets try again. [img]http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t222/RTLdan/image_zps7e3d569a.jpg[/img] It's not the best picture, but the print doesn't look too bad other than ...

Hello everyone! I've been back online doing more test prints after the guys at SeeMeCNC replaced my RAMBO over the holidays (truly the best customer service!). I've been getting decent simple prints, but I went to do a test part that is comprised of two halves that should fit into eachother, and ...

Took me a little bit of time to update this thread but here is the latest. I took the advice and got in touch with SeeMeCNC. They offered to either sell me a RAMBo 1.2 with short protection for a discounted price or to take a look at the old board and see what was possibly going wrong. I liked the ...

Well, I'm here to post my unfortunate followup. I went to go try the other thermistor ports, but when I plugged in the usb cable to my computer to flash the firmware with the new pins.h configuration, I get an error from Windows that the "attached USB device has malfunctioned." So it seems to me ...

Hi Eaglezsoar, Thanks for all your help and advice! I will test the other two thermistor ports on the RAMBO tonight. Once I determine what's going on there, I'll look into finding out about a replacement RAMBO. I bought the kit in April or so, so it's been less than a year. Maybe they will be able ...

Hi Eaglezsoar, I tested the pins on the back of the thermistor connectors as instructed. Both hotend and heated bed are showing up around 175k ohm (in a cold workshop...room temp maybe around 50f). I am running Repetier .80 I think...whatever the latest version off of the SeeMeCnc website is. Hope ...

Hi guys! Thanks for your quick replies! Eaglezsoar, I do have a multimeter to test. What resistance am I looking for at room temp? Gene, I can test the wiring, but am I looking for a certain value? I went through and sort of played with the wiring to see if anything was shorted and would come back ...