Ender 3 Pro or Ender 3 v2?

Scougar · 26 Jan 2021 at 18:10

gitbags said:
I followed that rule, but irritatingly the back right corner has about half a turn in it, once level, between pressure and going slack.

I thought about removing the nub on the z stop, but don't want to void the warranty just yet. So I'm thinking the next thing is to apply a shim or 2 of foil.

Mine is the same. Back right needs a lot of slack compared to the rest.

Printers seem finicky. Sometimes prints are good other times not. But the hairspray trick on the glass resolved all my bed adhesion issues.

I removed the nub the first day lol. Just make sure stop is tight on. Adjustment for the stop... Tighten it as soon as it clicks, not when it is fully down.

Scougar · 27 Jan 2021 at 03:56

My Ender 3 V2 has starting squeaking at times. Not sure why yet.

ZXSpectrum · 27 Jan 2021 at 10:27

I went for the Ender 3 Pro as it was on a silly deal before xmas and worked out about £10 more than the normal one(Pretty sure it cost me £136 delivered with Glass bed and extra nozzles), Then i purchased the kit with the tube, metal extruder and better springs. So it has still so far cost me less than you can currently buy a standard Ender 3.

gitbags · 27 Jan 2021 at 11:17

Scougar said:
Mine is the same. Back right needs a lot of slack compared to the rest.

Printers seem finicky. Sometimes prints are good other times not. But the hairspray trick on the glass resolved all my bed adhesion issues.

I removed the nub the first day lol. Just make sure stop is tight on. Adjustment for the stop... Tighten it as soon as it clicks, not when it is fully down.

I've had no problems with adhesion so far, but I have scrubbed it with alcohol and do so after every print (5 so far).
I've also fitted the yellow springs and that's raised my bed so I can lift the z stop and sort that back corner.

Today I'm going to mess about with the calibration guide deuse linked my other thread
(https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html) and see if I can tune my retraction setting to remove some minor stringing.

But so far I'm really impressed with with this printer.

Scougar · 27 Jan 2021 at 16:32

https://drive.google.com/file/d/162xTrpnlhyZMt-iWPaMVOJS1eZZvkp_D/view?usp=sharing

Not sure how to embed the link, but here is my first ever effort at CAD.

This is for 'tray' that collects paintballs and the motor and drive cones. Gearing is underneath. I am using parts from an Empire Magna hopper. I actually modified an original part (epoxy/copper pipes/hose etc, but wanted to do it the way I wanted.

This will be a 'boxmag' for paintball.

Printing PETG at 245/85. Mostly comes out good.

Scougar · 28 Oct 2021 at 06:33

Update: after a long delay I'm finally printing my Box mag after some significant changes.

However, my hotend took a dump on me today, and as I need to get these prints done hopefully in time for the Fulda Gap big game in North Carolina on November 5th... I needed to do something quick. Enter the delivery in one day MicroSwiss Direct Drive Extruder kit with their hotend included.

Direct drives sit on top of the hot end so add significant weight, which means you need to print slower else vibration effects are seen in the print from movements.. but I'm OK with that I think, as I print pretty slow anyway as I'm on PETG.

So far.. none of the horrific Ender extruder clicking. It also means I should be able to print TPU, carbon etc.

100 bucks for the kit was pretty good, but we'll find out the results after tuning/calibrating. I'm actually having to print a shroud for it, do have hot glued a fan on for now lol.