I tuned my #3dprinter. I printed 9 frames for some art. I made some wheel shelves to hold my bike on the wall. I made half of an advent calendar and a number of other things I am forgetting.
Then, we had a falling out. I have spent hours trying to get back to a calibrated state. Now, I am looking at getting a #Prusa because I am tired of this fight.
@sikkdays Yeah, it's like that, my printer would work for 100s of hours then some weird thing would break and I would spend forever to fix it.
I eventually got a knack for it, but here's a few things that got me the last time:
* re-flashed firmware with a new version, change E steps/mm that I didn't save in the source code. spent forever figuring out why nozzle extruded twice as much filament
* Inductive probe wire became frail because it was in MK2 that had issues with it.
@sikkdays But now I feel like once I get it more or less calibrated it's fine.
I find mesh bed leveling and stepper auto-align help with dealing with the most annoying problems of alignment.
@sikkdays In one hand yes, in the other prusa suffers from the same problems only the experience better, so you still kind of need to know fundamentals.
maybe get prusa mini so you have an idea how 3d printer is supposed to work when it works, so you'd be better informed about the issues with ender and further upgrade path.
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