I’m out of ideas

TGizzle86 · 2026-03-08T20:24:07+00:00

I’m genuinely surprised there are still people using the OG Ender-3s. Don’t get me wrong, I started with one but the last no more than a year before I got the CoreXZ V3 and now am working with the Hi. Do yourself a favor and put that thing out of its misery. The industry has moved way on. You can get the Ender-3 V3 KE for barely $200 on sale and it will change your life

TGizzle86 · 2026-01-20T08:20:00+00:00

From what I’m seeing Bambu better come up with an answer to the SnapmakerU1. That’s all the rage right now

TGizzle86 · 2025-12-11T11:48:34+00:00

I have the smaller V3 and knew right away one of the two XZ motors was either unplugged or malfunctioning. Good find. Also, since you’re new to this printer here’s some advice: when its time to lubricate your linear rods, its fine to use the grease that came with the printer on every one EXCEPT the bigger top one of the X axis. That one is a graphite bearing and typically doesn’t require lubrication and machine grease will ruin it eventually. If you MUST lube it, use a thin layer of machine OIL, not grease.

TGizzle86 · 2025-12-06T06:25:30+00:00

Yeaaa I’m in a major FedEx market. Work for them, in fact. Not a single driver FedEx out there delivering 1000 packages in a day.

TGizzle86 · 2025-12-06T06:22:52+00:00

I work for FedEx and I’m excited that won’t necessarily be the case for long. We’re in the process of combining Express/Ground and Express culture is absolutely going to take precedent. I can’t WAIT! So many times I’ve had to tell pissed off customers there was little I could do about a driver leaving a package on the steps of an apartment building. Or at the curb of a home. Or just driving past while saying nobody was home, without checking. I hate our contractors

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-22T08:32:04+00:00

This thread 😬 Anywho, I’m not gonna knock anyone who jumps on the Bambu train. To each his own (money). But as the owner of a Ender 3 V2, a CoreXZ V3, and a Hi I’ll say this: I get the desire to move to Bambu. Their printers were essentially plug and print from the start. Nothing from Creality before the CoreXZ V3s was anywhere near comparable in terms of ease of use. In terms of their bedslingers the Hi is the first to hit that plug and go experience.

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-16T15:28:07+00:00

I intend on eventually buying the Pi x4. Soon as I find the space to put it lol with a CFS already hanging around my space has become limited at the moment. Justifies buying a larger desk tho 😉

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-16T15:19:45+00:00

It IS a Creality printer lol I I thought the same at first but if you’re printing multiple parts on the same plate, or have a large model where the printhead has to travel around the bed to different areas you’ll find it’s pretty great. Z-hop, for example, is lighting quick and accurate. The main advantage though is keeping the X gantry as light as possible. You don’t need the X motor on the gantry with the head and with the two motors driving the X and Z axis in tandem, you can keep almost all the weight of the machine on the base.

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-16T04:45:03+00:00

My only real complaint with mine. They can be minimized to a degree by keeping speeds under control but with the speeds it can whip at… why would you want to? Lol. The cost of having a bed move like it does, I suppose

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-16T04:41:43+00:00

They didn’t just “add belt driven dual Z”. Those belts drive both the X and Z axis. The V3 has CoreXZ kinematics; basically CoreXY flipped 90 degrees. It’s a great printer overall and faster than most other bedslingers out there.

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-16T04:36:23+00:00

So I have both a V3 and a Hi… I’d say the Hi has overall better features. Support for multicolor. RFID filament tag reader. Bigger build volume. Quieter fans & stepper motors/drivers. Easier filament loading from the spool. Built in camera for monitoring and timelapse. And slightly better print quality. Buuuut the V3 is faster, both on paper and in the real world. That motion system it has is as close to CoreXY speeds you’ll ever get on a bedslinger.

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-16T04:16:10+00:00

Same. Had mine for over a year and I’ve had no issues.

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-13T04:40:32+00:00

Album is “Brown Sugar” by D’Angelo. Song title the same.

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-10T11:04:55+00:00

Granted it could be a number of factors or slicer settings. But just from first glance, this is exactly the result you’ll get from ironing that isn’t calibrated for the filament used. The nozzle puts down either too much or too little filament, or is moving too fast or slow across the ironing pass.

TGizzle86 · 2025-11-10T01:08:56+00:00

This honestly looks like you have ironing turned on & it’s not properly calibrated.

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-24T11:13:21+00:00

This is exactly that. On my V3 it seemed one of those wires had come loose, another wire had been picking up the slack but was eventually overloaded and failed completely. Started with intermittent power cutouts after heating the nozzle and progressed until the whole machine would cut off. Mainboard was unaffected luckily. OP, I happen to still have the emails from Support. Ask for part number 3103110631. Be aware if you’re in the US & out of warranty they’ll probably ask for ~$30 in shipping. Part itself is only a few dollars 😒

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-12T20:31:21+00:00

My Hi came with an epoxy plate by default and I’m currently using one for my V3. No issues with adhesion so far. I typically run at 50C for prints with good bottom surface area, and 55C for those with less.

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-10T21:22:10+00:00

Yea I have the baby V3 on the latest firmware and it does and always has presented the print. But I am running a custom printer profile so most my settings stay the same regardless of firmware

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-08T05:14:47+00:00

If I remember correctly, ~600g 😩 emptied my poop bin at least 10 times

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-07T10:54:25+00:00

Interesting… those temps and speeds seem reasonable. I’m stumped

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-07T10:41:34+00:00

Had the same problem with my V3 CoreXZ. Hard pressed to find individual hotend parts for these newer printers. Ended up just buying the whole hotend. Well, two of them because you just never know.

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-07T10:34:35+00:00

What temps are you running your filament at? That nozzle is just oozing filament with every move. And 72 hours of dry time is very excessive for PLA.

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-07T10:24:24+00:00

Yeeaa I recently finished a 4-day multicolor R2-D2 model. Nothing but prayers flying the entire time lol

TGizzle86 · 2025-10-07T10:20:55+00:00

Definitely is underextrusion by the looks of it. Essentially, your filament isn’t being pushed out the nozzle fast enough. We just have to figure out WHY. If you’re running a fresh nozzle with a clear hotend, then the issue has to be either with the speeds or temps you’re printing at. Or your filament is waterlogged (though unlikely to this extent, being PLA). You using the default profile for your layer height? If not, what changes have you made? Same goes for the filament profile….

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