re: The Official 3D Printing Thread

im really itching to build a custom 3d printer. For what, double my printing capacity.....Why? idk just sounds fun.

I'm running the BLTouch. I have a glass bed and I read the light emmitter abls don't work with that.

I think by far the best setup is abl with octoprint. The screen shot I posted from the bed visualizer made tuning the bed as level as possible is great.

Now I have my extruder working properly I'm holding off on installing the herome5, EZR, and direct drive until I get downtime in printing all the useless stuff I want to print.

So, I've had my PETG sitting out for almost a week since I have been printing with it pretty frequently. Started noticing print quality suffering and little popping noises during printing after around day 3. I looked into drying filament in the oven and people seem to get mixed results, plus my oven only goes down to 170F which means I may be able to get PETG to work, but PLA is definitely out and it's probably not a good idea since I eat food out of that oven.

Anyway, started seeing people recommend converting dehydrators. The $40 Westinghouse people were talking about and which had mods on Thingiverse to replace the trays appears to no longer be made/stocked. While searching for another similar model (adjustable temp, large enough diameter and height, price ~$50) I found this other one on Amazon for about the same price, dehydrator link. Sure enough, when looking at the reviews trying to determine the inner dimensions I saw a person had posted a picture with 2 spools in it and said it worked great! Went ahead and ordered one. Instead of trying to print a new 'ring' to replace the individual trays as people had done for the Westinghouse, I'm probably just going to cut out the trays as the guy did in his review. I love jerky, but I don't see myself taking it up as a hobby so I'm fine "ruining" the trays. Alternatively, you could make it so it only fits one spool by only cutting the bottom out of one tray. That would give you 3 trays you could still use for dehydrating food if that's your jam or you need to justify the purchase.

I installed most of what teachingtech recommends.

So I had a print finish today when everything normal. And tried to get my next print going and it seems my Z axis is backwards now. It won't z home. Bed just keeps going down. Nothing changed. So idk what's up.

You tube assembly video

EXACTLY!
The best thing to do is inform people. People are going to be people. lol
I bought an ender 3 and made this assembly video over the weekend. I have to admit that I was impressed. I was expecting to be let down. I've dealt with many Chinese kits. I gotta give these folks two thumbs up.

I have done this before after installing an inductive Z probe. I had to correct this in the firmware by changing the Z home setting from true to false.
But I don't know the BL Touch so this may not be correlated.

Ah. Makes sense. I need to get a BL touch just to mess with it.

Just a heads up there are a few colors left on Joann's website 15.99. just bought another 100 bucks worth of pla

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I thought T3D offered precompiled Marlin distros?

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They do offer precompiled firmware, but it seems to be only for their 32-bit board. I emailed them to see if they had a bin file for the BTT board and they didn’t.

I’ve searched all over and can’t figure out what the error is