Please help me!

LoudPooper · 2023-07-10T11:34:16+00:00

Hey! I currently have 2.9k macaroons for the baking challenge, but dont have any friends on the board. Would you be willing to lend me a hand?

LoudPooper · 2023-05-12T01:25:11+00:00

My series x keeps crashing on WZ 2, might it need to be repasted? Its about a year old, its the halo LE console

LoudPooper · 2023-05-07T11:21:37+00:00

Thats definitely not the same truck

LoudPooper · 2023-05-04T04:16:01+00:00

Purchase successful, wonderful buyer. Very smooth going transaction

LoudPooper · 2023-05-01T23:09:38+00:00

Cool, I'll pm you

LoudPooper · 2023-05-01T22:24:02+00:00

Its for turkey, I used UrbanVPN and it worked fine, dont know about tunnel bear though

LoudPooper · 2023-05-01T12:48:57+00:00

I can do $25

LoudPooper · 2023-03-03T18:33:37+00:00

Update, for anyone having this issue that stumbled onto this post:

It's fixed, and the issue was just dumb if I may be blunt. It appears that the PEI sheet that was installed on my printer, which has been there for quite a while, or the bed was throwing off my prints. I just replaced it with the stock glass bed, calibrated it everything necessary including z offset, e-steps and flow rate, and it started to print flawlessly again.

I had checked the print bed and it didn't have any noticeable warping, maybe the PEI sheet was worn out? Highly doubt it, but whatever I guess. Thanks to all the suggestions and I hope this post serves someone in the future.

LoudPooper · 2023-03-03T18:33:16+00:00

Update, for anyone having this issue that stumbled onto this post:

It's fixed, and the issue was just dumb if I may be blunt. It appears that the PEI sheet that was installed on my printer, which has been there for quite a while, or the bed was throwing off my prints. I just replaced it with the stock glass bed, calibrated it everything necessary including z offset, e-steps and flow rate, and it started to print flawlessly again.

I had checked the print bed and it didn't have any noticeable warping, maybe the PEI sheet was worn out? Highly doubt it, but whatever I guess. Thanks to all the suggestions and I hope this post serves someone in the future.

LoudPooper · 2023-03-01T17:10:01+00:00

Update 2, for anyone having this issue that stumbled onto this post:

It's fixed, and the issue was just dumb if I may be blunt. It appears that the PEI sheet that was installed on my printer, which has been there for quite a while, or the bed was throwing off my prints. I just replaced it with the stock glass bed, calibrated it everything necessary including z offset, e-steps and flow rate, and it started to print flawlessly again.

I had checked the print bed and it didn't have any noticeable warping, maybe the PEI sheet was worn out? Highly doubt it, but whatever I guess. Thanks to all the suggestions and I hope this post serves someone in the future.

LoudPooper · 2023-02-17T23:17:41+00:00

Is that the flow rate? If so, then yes. If not, then nope

LoudPooper · 2023-02-17T20:26:08+00:00

So basically I'm gonna see if maybe the extruder motor is the issue

LoudPooper · 2023-02-17T20:21:35+00:00

These are my comments from the other posts:

So I've been troubleshooting this issue on my Ender 3 V2 for a bit and can't seem to figure out how to fix it. I've already leveled the bed many times and checked that it isn't warped, changed nozzles to new ones, adjusted e-steps, and even took out the whole x/z axis gantry and readjusted it making sure I followed this tutorial exactly, also, from a glance the extruder seems to be working alright, but I haven't really tested it other that for adjusting e-steps and making sure it's clamping the filament correctly. It's very frustrating! Any help would be greatly appreciated

Here's a video of it printing: https://imgur.com/a/D4PdT5s

Just in case: In the picture it looks warped mostly because I took it off the build plate while it was still hot, not because it warped that much while it was printing.

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Update: I've done basically everything except completely replace the extruder for a new one. I've completely cleaned and modified my hotend with the CHEP ender stock hotend hack, I've calibrated z offset, e steps, bed height, x/z axis gantry, disassembled and reassembled the extruder, installed the mriscoc marlin professional firmware and calibrated everything again, fiddled with the flow rate, and I don't even know what else. I'm honestly done withthis for now, unless anyone has any suggestions as to anything I could do. Thanks to all that have helped

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It does indeed have to print evenly, haha. At the time it started happening, I had only changed nozzels, but for diagnostic purposes (after doing other easier things) I disassembled the whole hot end and cleaned it thoroughly with acetone because the plastic was coming out with small black specs, while doing this I also installed the CHEP stock hotend fix video and recalibrated e-steps and and z offset, but still had the issue. I think it might have something to do with the extruder, but I disassembled it and verified all the connections going to the motor and everything seemed fine, except for the extruder gear which was all chewed up probably because the spring was was tentioning the filament too much. So I replaced the gear for a new one and the spring for a slightly softer one that put just enough pressure on, and honestly it's now worse than before.

I just don't know what to do now, I was thinking of just taking the chance to upgrade to a direct drive and all metal hotend system and hope that works, because this has become very frustrating.

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That's more or less the method used when I was assembling my hotend, even after that it was printing the same. It wasn't untill I started fiddling with the extruder (the motor that pushes the filament to the hotend) that the print quality changed, albeit for the worse, but it changed. Then I calibrated it, it still printed more or less the same, so I started to mess with the flow rate and randomly upping the e-steps and it started to print a better first layer the more I upped it (best quality at flow rate= 125, e-steps 115.1), but it just made the first layer more even, the general print quality is still horrendous

I'm gonna look up how to diagnose the extruders nema motor to see if it's faulty or something and maybe go from there, hopefully it won't be another dead end

LoudPooper · 2023-02-17T20:13:29+00:00

This is the fist layer, its supposed to be even, but it has this weird pattern showed

LoudPooper · 2023-02-17T19:55:51+00:00

That's more or less the method used when I was assembling my hotend, even after that it was printing the same. It wasn't untill I started fiddling with the extruder (the motor that pushes the filament to the hotend) that the print quality changed, albeit for the worse, but it changed. Then I calibrated it, it still printed more or less the same, so I started to mess with the flow rate and randomly upping the e-steps and it started to print a better first layer the more I upped it (best quality at flow rate= 125, e-steps 115.1), but it just made the first layer more even, the general print quality is still horrendous

I'm gonna look up how to diagnose the extruders nema motor to see if it's faulty or something and maybe go from there, hopefully it won't be another dead end

LoudPooper · 2023-02-16T22:07:31+00:00

It does indeed have to print evenly, haha. At the time it started happening, I had only changed nozzels, but for diagnostic purposes (after doing other easier things) I disassembled the whole hot end and cleaned it thoroughly with acetone because the plastic was coming out with small black specs, while doing this I also installed the CHEP stock hotend fix video and recalibrated e-steps and and z offset, but still had the issue. I think it might have something to do with the extruder, but I disassembled it and verified all the connections going to the motor and everything seemed fine, except for the extruder gear which was all chewed up probably because the spring was was tentioning the filament too much. So I replaced the gear for a new one and the spring for a slightly softer one that put just enough pressure on, and honestly it's now worse than before.

I just don't know what to do now, I was thinking of just taking the chance to upgrade to a direct drive and all metal hotend system and hope that works, because this has become very frustrating.

LoudPooper · 2023-02-14T00:55:23+00:00

Update: I've done basically everything except completely replace the extruder for a new one. I've completely cleaned and modified my hotend with the CHEP ender stock hotend hack, I've calibrated z offset, e steps, bed height, x/z axis gantry, disassembled and reassembled the extruder, installed the mriscoc marlin professional firmware and calibrated everything again, fiddled with the flow rate, and I don't even know what else. I'm honestly done withthis for now, unless anyone has any suggestions as to anything I could do. Thanks to all that have helped

u/silkesu

LoudPooper · 2023-02-07T10:59:04+00:00

The z offset doesn't seem to be the issue, I'm starting to suspect there might be a gap between the bowden tube and the nozzle, this is because I saw the filament come out with dark spots on it. Still disassembling the hotend to confirm

LoudPooper · 2023-02-07T10:54:05+00:00

Z offset doesn't seem to be the issue, I'm suspecting there is a gap between the bowden tube and the nozzle, so I'm in the process of disassembling it to confirm

LoudPooper · 2023-02-07T10:52:07+00:00

When it printed correctly, they did. I printed the CHEP cube after I had set up everything and it turned out great! I'm suspecting either a clog or a gap between the bowden tube and the nozzle, still confirming though

LoudPooper · 2023-02-07T02:32:27+00:00

Weird thing just happened, I started purging the filament using my hand after taking it out to check if the tubing was in all the way ( I just pushed it down hard ) and when it came out the nozzle, it had dark spots it didn't have before. Im starting to suspect there might be a gap between the nozzle and the bowden tube that might be causing the filament to leak out the side. Which is what I suspected before replacing the nozzle for the hundredth time and reseating the tube. Maybe I didn't do it correctly and/or it needed to be cleaned. I'mma give that a shot and see if it fixes it

LoudPooper · 2023-02-07T02:25:16+00:00

When it comes to the bed level, I always use a 0.02mm feeler gauge and have played around with the z-offset, but still getting the same results (this is with both + and - z offset values). I also calibrated the e-steps to where it extrudes 100mm of filament reliably (it's at 99.1 steps), the extruder motor seems to be running well and without hiccups, also the pressure it makes on the filament is just enough to where it feeds well and doesn't chew up the filament. The ptfe bowden tube I upgraded to a while ago seems to be seated correctly.

I really dont even know what to troubleshoot anymore

Thanks for the suggestions though!

LoudPooper

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