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I just got the shipping notification for my Rostock kit and I'm overwhelmed with excitement. I can't wait to neglect my fiancee and lay claim to an entire room of the house while I build it.

This is my first printer. A buddy asked me what I was going to use it for and I said, "Fun."

Not only will you get your alone time, there will be an awesome bonfire smell that you'll hate at first but then grow to miss when it's gone.

Welcome to the forum, I hope your build goes great! Looking forward to seeing your first prints and hearing about your projects!

You are going to have so much fun.

While you're waiting, grab a copy of Geneb's Rostock Max V2 manual, and read through it a couple of times. Thoroughly. Also stock up on the tools and optional stuff you'll need.

And during your build, take your time, follow the manual, and make sure you understand not only what each step is, but why it's important.

As a result, you'll have a deep understanding of your new printer, and it will help you along your way to great prints.

Welcome to the Club!

Welcome to the forum crim and thank you for purchasing the Rostock Max V2.
We all have had the experience of having to wait for the printer to arrive and the wait was difficult because we wanted to start building.
gestalt73 had a good idea in downloading the manual and becoming familiar with the manual. The latest manual is here: http://download.seemecnc.com/rostockmax ... -Guide.pdf

Happy Building and Printing!

Thanks all! I've read the manual start-to-finish three times, and spot-read a few sections more than that. (I'm excited) Very much looking forward to the build. I intentionally bought a kit as my first printer to better ensure I understand what I'm working with.

Already took the opportunity to organize all the tools and extra gear I'll need. It felt really nice to get my soldering station back out and have an excuse to use it. I've also been reading up about LED rings and other options along those lines. Figuring out what kind of enclosure I'll build around it; should be fun.

Best news: it got delivered a day early. It's sitting at the loading dock at work right now! Gonna try to get some actual work done today before I pick it up.

Jimustanguitar wrote:Not only will you get your alone time, there will be an awesome bonfire smell that you'll hate at first but then grow to miss when it's gone.

Holy cow, what a smell. It reminds me a little bit of smoked oysters... or Lagavulin... both of which made me hungry.

Got through my cataloging of the parts and wasn't short on anything, but had a few extra screws and odds and ends.

And finally... jesus, that's a lot of tape to remove. Working my way through the five stages.

crim wrote:

Jimustanguitar wrote:Not only will you get your alone time, there will be an awesome bonfire smell that you'll hate at first but then grow to miss when it's gone.

Holy cow, what a smell. It reminds me a little bit of smoked oysters... or Lagavulin... both of which made me hungry.

Got through my cataloging of the parts and wasn't short on anything, but had a few extra screws and odds and ends.

And finally... jesus, that's a lot of tape to remove. Working my way through the five stages.

Exciting, isn't it?
Have a great time building!

I felt pretty happy with my two-foot-tall tower of tape.

crim wrote:I felt pretty happy with my two-foot-tall tower of tape.

Your tower of tape looks like an Extra Terrestrial.

Worst. Print. Ever.



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lol

Just got the bed all soldered up! Finished getting the top plate of the bottom all secured last night, too (after making one of the motor assemblies backwards and redoing it).

Promised the lady that she'd actually be able to wall across that room by tomorrow night.

This is clearly the coolest thing I've built in the last year.

Build complete. It works. I'm printing the PEEK fan shroud.

PEEK shroud complete!

Looks pretty nice, overall. Is that over-extrusion under the post clips?

No, it's sagging overhang. The diagonal cut on the bottom of the post clips is quite a challenging configuration in that area where it starts to wrap back around. With some slicing settings it will come to a layer where it theoretically generates an island floating in mid-air that's completely disconnected and unsupported. I actually decided to redesign the STL rather than keep fighting with it.

Cool, I can deal with that. Thanks for the info.

First problem: the PEEK fan isn't running. Light's on for HEAT_1 once the extruder is up to temp, but no joy. Pulling out the multimeter tomorrow to start looking for the problem..

Huzzah for little mistakes! I simply hadn't sanded the body of the PEEK fan down enough. Popped it out of the shroud and it spun right up. Hit it a bit more with the 100-grit and I'm good to go.

crim wrote:Huzzah for little mistakes! I simply hadn't sanded the body of the PEEK fan down enough. Popped it out of the shroud and it spun right up. Hit it a bit more with the 100-grit and I'm good to go.

Good news that you got it working! Great job!

Thanks!

Here's the layer fan shroud and Marvin.

The shroud came out fine enough, but Marvin's a little rough. Any thoughts on how to adjust for the various anomalies/artifacts? I'll recalibrate tonight, but what other things should I look at right off the bat? Are these symptomatic of the quality of the filament, atmospheric conditions, temperature of the hot-end, etc?

All these prints were done with ABS at the initial standard of 228C for the hot-end and 80C for the bed in a relatively stable environment, at 250-micron resolution.

Awesome job! Great first prints. Gotta love it!

crim wrote:Thanks!

Here's the layer fan shroud and Marvin.

The shroud came out fine enough, but Marvin's a little rough.

I find that when I print small object the top layers do not quite cool before the next layer is placed and and there is some sagging/distortion. Slow your print, add a fan to blow on the print or most helpful is to add a waste print to delay the next layer of your print of interest.


The dimples on the back of Marvin is due to the movement of the Print Head. I think this is due to how the slicer, slices the file. Not sure how to fix that yet. Other may have suggestions.