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  1. miksane

    miksane New Member

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    Hello all, check out this problem I am having:

    I am using an R1 with simplify3D (the stock software is rubbish, but thats another story). When I tell the printer to extrude on command, it extrudes fine. When it starts printing, it will feed for a little, but then it stops and the hobbed bolt starts chafing away at the filament, EVEN THOUGH IT WORKS FINE ON STAND ALONE EXTRUDE COMMAND.

    How can this be possible?

    I am getting incredibly frustrated. How can ROBO sell a printer that you might as well have made yourself, considering every single critical aspect of the printer they sell needs to be upgraded at one point.


    Please help me! I have lost two full days of work figuring out why this printer is just....not printing. It was working fine last week! Ahhhhhh!!
     
    #1 miksane, Nov 5, 2014
  2. Mike Kelly

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    Is your hot end fan running? Sounds like a jam
     
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    Which fan? The angled fan blowing at the extruding tip, or the tiny tiny box (possible a fan) outside of the 3d printed shroud that goes torwards the heatsink?
     
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    I agree. Is this PLA? Have you perhaps seasoned the hotend? That cured jams for me (with PLA).
    If the hotend fan is off then jam-city.

    Yea... MatterControl has a ways to grow.
     
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  5. Mike Kelly

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    [​IMG]

    though it might have this mount: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:436927
     
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    Hello there fellow motorcycle enthusiast,

    How do I go about seasoning the hotend? I put a little wire down the feed hole and pulled it up scooping some plastic each time (did not have a thin enough gauge of wire). It is PLA, althought 3 spools of ABS just came in today (if it starts printing again -___-).
     
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    [​IMG]

    What are these two wires, and are they supposed to be connected?
     
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  8. Mike Kelly

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    Yup looks like they got pulled out during unboxing. Just plug them in to the two end connectors (not the middle) on the switch
     
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    Thanks for all the advice so far. Black wire to the wall, red wire towards tray?
     
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  11. Mike Kelly

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    doesn't make any difference at all.
     
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    yup. Guilty. Spend way too much money at the track.

    PLA is all that needs seasoning, but it will not harm any filament type.
    In fact, I installed an oiler to do constant seasoning.

    To season (a one-off):
    1) remove filament and heat hotend (leave the feed section opened up)
    2) take a 6-8" chunk of filament, dip the end in canola (or vegatable) oil
    3) manually push it through the hotend.
    4) repeat #3 several times.
    5) reassemble and go for it

    you will need to re-season periodically (I never got a good response on how often, which is why I went for an oiler).
     
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    Thanks for the advice guys. Now my printer says printing, but I cant even tell X,Y,Z to do anything and then the timer BLIPS by really quick. Just one problem after another :(
     
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  14. Mike Kelly

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    did you restart everything?
     
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    5 times. Cant get the extruder to heat up. Cant get the bed to heat up. Cant use X Y Z or extrude commands. Cant do anything, and it all pleasantly happened out of NOWHERE
     
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  16. Mike Kelly

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    Does it say you're connected? Open Terminal
     
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    its all 0's
     
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  18. Mike Kelly

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    mind if i connect via teamviewer? You can start a conversation and send me the login codes
     
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    CEIVED: Error:printer stopped due to errors. Fix the error and use M999 to restart. (Temperature is reset. Set it after restarting)

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: echo:SD init fail

    SD init fail

    RECEIVED: ok

    RECEIVED: echo:Active Extruder: 0

    Active Extruder: 0

    RECEIVED: ok

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0

    SENT: M105

    RECEIVED: ok T:0.0 /0.0 B:0.0 /0.0 T0:0.0 /0.0 @:0 B@:0
     
    #19 miksane, Nov 5, 2014
  20. Mike Kelly

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    Delete your printer profile and make a new one
     
    #20 Mike Kelly, Nov 5, 2014
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