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Greetings I'm a computer scientist that wanted to start doing prototypes using the cool 3D printing technology. I picked the Orion Delta printer since I was curious about the delta design and the "ready to print" feature was a nice selling point.

Unfortunately the printer got some shipping damages on its long way over here. Besides some cosmetic damages and snapping all the nylon screws to the psu, there where two things I wanted to check with someone else before I started playing with it.

1:
The cheapskate bearings where loose on the tower closest to the impact. I tightened everything up and now they seem to be as the other two towers (tight but rolls well on the bearings). Will I have to recalibrate the printer after such an adjustment?

2:
it fell out a small but long allen screw from the base. I cannot find where it belongs any idea?

I have tried to reach SeeMeCNC about this but no replies.
Best regards Sebastian

xwerxes wrote:Greetings I'm a computer scientist that wanted to start doing prototypes using the cool 3D printing technology. I picked the Orion Delta printer since I was curious about the delta design and the "ready to print" feature was a nice selling point.

Unfortunately the printer got some shipping damages on its long way over here. Besides some cosmetic damages and snapping all the nylon screws to the psu, there where two things I wanted to check with someone else before I started playing with it.

1:
The cheapskate bearings where loose on the tower closest to the impact. I tightened everything up and now they seem to be as the other two towers (tight but rolls well on the bearings). Will I have to recalibrate the printer after such an adjustment?

2:
it fell out a small but long allen screw from the base. I cannot find where it belongs any idea?

I have tried to reach SeeMeCNC about this but no replies.
Best regards Sebastian

Welcome to the forum!

In answer to some of your questions, I will try to help.

1. Calibration is probably not necessary, but if you notice your prints do not look as they should they a complete calibration should be done.

2. The allen screw sounds like it may belong in the pulley for the belt that attaches to the step motors.
Check all the the step motors and ensure that the puleys all have the set screw installed and that they are snug. If you find that the set
screw belongs in a motor pulley, ensure the allen screw aligns with the motor flat when you reinstall and ensure the pulley is centered with the
other pulleys.
I do hope that you find where the allen screw goes, and I would not run the printer until you do.


If the screw in question is not a set screw but a screw with a phillips head on it. These screws are on the bottom of printer and there is a
set of four of them in a pattern around each set of feet. (a total of 12 such screws). If one of these screws has fallen out then it needs
to be reinserted but the difficulty is that the nut that held the screw could have fallen out of the slot it fits into and if this has happened
it can be difficult to find the nut and reinsert the nut because of the difficulty in accessing everything inside the Orion. I wish you the best
of luck in locating the screw location and fixing it. The shipping carriers can be awful in the way they handle packages.
Happy Printing!

Thanks!

I could not find any missing screws around the steppers. I also noticed that they used much larger allen screws and this screw was the same as the ones on the arms where none was missing. This led me to assume that it was simply one screw too many....

Anyrate from this reply I dared to start the printer and print my blinker and it worked perfectly!
Many thanks
Also no missing philips screws but all nylon screws to the psu where broken and the heads rattled around inside the base . At any rate the psu can float for now.

Thanks again for your reply.

xwerxes wrote:Thanks!

I could not find any missing screws around the steppers. I also noticed that they used much larger allen screws and this screw was the same as the ones on the arms where none was missing. This led me to assume that it was simply one screw too many....

Anyrate from this reply I dared to start the printer and print my blinker and it worked perfectly!
Many thanks
Also no missing philips screws but all nylon screws to the psu where broken and the heads rattled around inside the base . At any rate the psu can float for now.

Thanks again for your reply.

The best to you sir in getting everything up and running. We will be here to answer any more questions you may have.

Good luck. Hope the shipping gorillas jave not damaged it too much.

A picture of the screw could help others diagnose the problem.


Also you may want to look at the rostock assembly manual. Most things should be similar.

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