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- Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:16 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
Yeah, a lot of it looks to be the settings. Adding a layer cooling fan and tweaking temps and speeds will probably help a lot. I'm afraid there's not a whole lot that's unexpected about a now long retired printer design that was the first commercial product from a company to enter a market in it's ...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 10:44 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
So, it's pretty horrible quality but I completed my first print. Part of the quality is print settings I'm sure, but I've also got some pretty horrible backlash in the x-axis. But I can't say I'm surprised by that. I expected the quality of the print to be pretty horrid with the impreciseness of the...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 2:11 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
yeah, I have a heated bed that I bought, but it's to big for this unit :( I was reading some other stuff and thought the bed level might be part of the problem but was hoping I was wrong. Didn't count on a "complete kit' having a bed that wasn't acceptable to be used as a bed lol. Chalk it up t...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 1:01 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
Ok, so I got my new driver boards in and they are working well. The filament is feeding really well now. But now my problem is that the plastic isn't sticking to the print bed, it's sticking to the extruder tip instead, see attached picture. What can I do about this? Oh and just to note, no it's not...
- Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:47 am
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
My kit didn't come with a thermistor, I had to buy one separately but it is a 100k thermistor from the seemecnc store. I have it set correctly in the firmware. The thermistor was not lose really, until I yanked it out the hot end on accident last night. I've ordered some kapton tape to put on it as ...
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 5:45 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
What is the hottest a lined hot end permits? The highest I've gone with it is 230 as that is what everything I've seen says to use for abs plastic filament. Pretty sure that is the type of plastic filament I have. Based on how fast it was melting at 230, I don't think it'd melt sufficiently at 185.
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:05 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
Is there a particular tube that I should replace it with that has a higher melting point? I rebuilt the extruder last night, another problem I found is that the little clear piece at the top and the black piece in the middle were slightly to wide. If I tightened the middle bolt down there was still ...
- Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:37 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
So, I don't know if this contributes to the problem or not... but I took apart everything a few minutes ago to see what I could do to fix these problems, and I noticed the filament tube is melting at the hot end. That probably restricts flow some I'd imagine. What should I do about that? filament_tu...
- Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:28 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Re: Hot end / extruder troubles
Yes, I definitely consider the entire parts kit from the original Indiegogo campaign low quality. Not so much in the of low grade, but poorly assembled and thought through. I'm not trying to offend anyone with that, it's just simple fact. There wasn't even instructions on how to put the kit together...
- Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:51 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot end / extruder troubles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16999
Hot end / extruder troubles
So, I don't know if anyone still reads this forum or not but I'm posting hoping they do. I finally got around to finishing all the elctronics and such on my H1, yeah I know it's been a ridiculously long time since these kits got delivered but I just kept getting annoyed with the low quality of this ...
- Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:38 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: H1 firmware and wiring
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4916
H1 firmware and wiring
Ok, so I finally got the hardware assembled on my H1... and I think everything is good on it. I'm not sure if the z-axis is working as smoothly as it should be yet, but I'll have to test it. I can turn it fairly easily with my fingers on either of the z-axis gears and both turn, although the left si...
- Sun Aug 31, 2014 1:32 pm
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot End Thermistor install quesiton
- Replies: 4
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Re: Hot End Thermistor install quesiton
Thanks for the reply. Yeah my kit was one of the very early original Indiegogo backer kits. It did not come with the thermistor or resistors nor the upgraded H1.1 parts (which I can't seem to find a list of anywhere to see if they are upgrades I should make, if I could even source the upgraded parts...
- Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:17 am
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Hot End Thermistor install quesiton
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7572
Hot End Thermistor install quesiton
So, I'm finally assembling my H1 that has been sitting in the closet for a long time (I know it's been a while but combined with frustration of the first few months of no instructions and then just lack of time to commit to it, I'm just getting around to it). After struggling through the first 7 ste...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:49 am
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Another H-1 Build with questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6738
Re: Another H-1 Build with questions
Awesome!! Thank you very much.Eaglezsoar wrote:
I have found the bending template and a link how to use it.
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- Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:02 am
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Another H-1 Build with questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6738
Re: Another H-1 Build with questions
Hey, thanks for the reply! I was asking about what exactly the h1.1 upgraded because I imagine the upgrades could be sourced elsewhere. If it's hardware component upgrades like bearings and such, I doubt they used a bearing design that was completely unique to the h1. If I know what the kit containe...
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:30 am
- Forum: H-1 3D Printers
- Topic: Another H-1 Build with questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6738
Another H-1 Build with questions
So, I bought one of these H-1 printers way back during the Indiegogo campaign for it. I got a little frustrated with it initially due to the lack of instructions for it at the time so ended up throwing it in my closet and forgot about it until recently when I found it. So I'm looking at putting this...