Mike Lopez's Printer

So I printed out a couple of things since I have received my printer on Monday. There were a few thing's I had issue's with but all is well now.

Out of the box the printer would not power on, turned out to be one of the power wires came loose during shipment. Also on the third day one of my z end stops wire broke off from soldering point, so the printer was not able to home the z axis.

So I suggest once you receive your printer make sure you check all your wire's and belts to avoid some headache.

Here are print that I did.

I tried to print a knife but for some reason the blade part did not print out. Some one suggested repair the .stl file.



This was a successful print of a 3 piece ring


I'm looking into building a delta printer as one of my project's this is one of 3 piece's for the base. My printer is also on display at my computer repair shop.

 

OK so my last print took forever about 20 hours due to solid fill. So my next print is the same part but at 40% infill which matter control said it will take 5 and a half hours. Also just wondering why some of my prints are coming out wavy any suggestions.

 

Please see and select an answer in the following forum.

http://forums.robo3dprinter.com/ind...-or-not-that-is-the-question.2490/#post-18697

We're trying to figure out what is causing it and when it started happening.

Oddly, when I did a print at .3 layer height the ribbing effect mostly went away. When I switched back to .1 it is still mostly gone.

I'd recommend also trying to do a mid sized print with auto leveling turned off (if you've been using it) to see how that affects the ribbing issue.

 

Thanks Montravont i will try that out. Like you said at .3 layer height it looks like it goes away.

 

Also do you know why in matter control it gives you your estimate time but it take double the time to print the part. For instance it will say 1 hour but it take's 2 hours to print the part.

 

I don't actually use Matter Control. I've been using Cura primarily. On occassion I switch over to Slic3r/Repetier Host.

Perhaps the time difference has partially to do with slicing the object. How fast is the computer you're printing from?

 

My Pc is fast enough it's running on dual xeon processors and 16 gb of ram. It also does the same thing on my macbook air. I will try out cura i heard good thing's about it.. thanks again. I'll post my results.

 

Lately I have noticed that my printer will pause for about 2-4 seconds on every layer and cause the print to have small blobs all over the print? Any suggestions?

 

Try closing all other programs and background tasks you don't need running.