3D Printing Forum

It does help. Turns out I'm actually much more naive than I thought. Turns out the problem was a lot to do with z not being close enough as pointed out (took me a while to get there though...) Now instead of a spacer and a rickshift print head I just added a z offset into the g code for the longer n...

Well thanks for the help! I'm now printing again. New throats were longer then the previous ones so I wedged a random part under the motor because the z limit didn't have enough range to compensate. Now I'm back to figuring out how to make a print work. My first layers don't stick well and my prints...

Well I wish I had an industrial oven, how are you using the soldering iron to fix it LePaul? Just got the new heat blocks which are pretty close, except on the old block there was a large hole for the thermosister and a small set screw on the adjacent side. The new one is puzzling me, I think the th...

Roberts_Clif, Not too worried about the tape issue at this point... My print quality is so poor that the surface isn't an issue at this point... Any clues on settings for a magnetic z-stop settings in the config.h in Marlin? Like I said, I got everything else working, including reinstalling the Hict...

Got a used 3D printer from a friend, have yet to get it to work well, usually it doesn't work at all. Tried switching to fresher filament but it clogged my "nozzle". I can remove the heating element and thermoresister but the nozzle/heating block/threaded guide tube are inseparable (I've s...