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Works fine. I bought a really long (2 meter) camera cable though so that I can use the Pi in the top of the unit with OctoPrint and still get the camera somewhere useful

Well, lets just say that up until now (after all of the other fixes) it would simply fail to stick the first layer well. If it DID then the third layer was a disaster. :) So way back with the earlier effector issues I had ordered a new spool of ColorFabb PLA. I stuck it on today after I posted this ...

With a small calibration cube ... The first layer looks good, the second layer looks OK and the third layer doesn't even touch (so it is extruding in the air). Any ideas?

We completely replaced the bowden (twice actually) :) I got it working. I googled this up and lo-and-behold a link to this forum (completely different printer sections, but...) turns out the fix was to increase the motor current. The default is 135 (in repetier) out of 255 max. When I took it to 175 ...

In a last ditch effort to narrow down what is wrong we decided to take the bowden tube from the Rostock and feed it into the E3D hotend for one of our Cartesian printers. Hold it in place heat it up and try to have the Rostock extrude. We KNOW the non-delta extruder works fine so ... if that does ...

So short of any other ideas I am going to slap together an arduino/ramps combo and tie it to just the extruder stepper and see if it works correctly when manually extruding. I don't have a spare RAMBO to swap in.

Just as an aside, the kit for the E3D hotend was an easy one to put together and assemble. Everything worked well. We had to order the following: Probe Board Adapter Item# PB-ADPT Hot End Groove Mount for Rostock MAX Item# RM-JHGMNT Carbon Fiber Tube Stand-Offs 36 MM Item# CFSTAND36 trick laser.jpg ...

Did the swap on the spare effector we had. Pictures attached. Loots great. It is a nice upgrade. Redid the autoleveling config as well. BUT IT DID NOT HELP :( I am not sure what is wrong, but I know what it is NOT: 1) It is NOT the extruder (theirs or the GregsWade) 2) It is NOT the filament 3) It ...

I think the solution is in-house. This plus the E3D should do it.
I will update this thread when we do it (probably tomorrow)
We had to go with TrickLaser since the other folks never would respond to requests.

Xenocrates wrote:

marktoml wrote:

gsnover wrote: 713Maker
Config page
Basic kit with accelormetor lock ring, 34MM spacers, and whatever color you like.

Thanks! I have sent them a request for that one.

With the nozzle off it feeds easier. Not sure if I can say it feeds as easy as I would expect, but easier. I tried running 1000 mm through with the nozzle off on the original one and that worked fine. It only failed entirely when the nozzle was on. The best results were with a 2.0 mm nozzle (yea ...

My HE280 clogged repeatedly out of the box. The issue was the PTFE tubing not fully seated. I could never get the PTFE fully seated after disassembly and chamfering the PTFE tube, it was never a reliable fix. I'm just going to switch to an e3d v6. Having the PTFE tubing go all the way down to the ...

Frankly I feel like I must be missing something obvious. Clearly others have this working
Will shifting the extruder to the second extruder output on the RAMPS (as suggested) work without tweaking the firmware?

Well, I removed the heat break and made sure the tube was flush in the bottom and reassembled it that way (with the tube already in-place). I made sure it did not pull back out while assembling so ... I cam pretty darn certain that the bowden tube is all the way in. It will not move in any further ...

Good idea and I will give it a whirl, but I am not certain that is going to change anything.
The fact that I can not easily feed filament throught he hotend by hand is what bothers me.

I will try that and get back to you though.

All we did was pull out the filament and make sure the hotend was clear then re-feed it. It will print OK initially, but quickly fail. Even if we don't retract the filament and just do some test extrudes it will generally flow OK initially. Bear in mind that just with the effector in midair, well ...

With no hotend attached it will happily feed through just the bowden tube all day long

Yes indeed. When we run it at 250 it does flow, but not for long. By the time it gets to layer 2 or three at best it is only intermittently extruding. I did measure the heater block at 210c and it is pretty close to what the thermistor is quoting. I was pretty sure we could solve this and when they ...

We have been struggling with a v3 for about a month now trying to get it working. While we have a lot of FDM experience (and several other printers) this is our first delta style. We started in 2013 and have worked our way through a number of prusa style and even a DLP we built ourselves. Other than ...