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OSR, I've had a machine (a Leapfrog) with many woes and many dead-ends, just as you have described. It ended up that the extruder just couldn't run PLA effectively (the company admitted this). I know that this isn't the case with the Rostock Max, since I've printed out some absolutely stellar tests ...

Couldn't wait. Ordered one.

A latecomer here... Just read this entire thread, all 22 pages of it! Great information. Given my desire to print PLA at stellar quality, I'm thinking I'll go ahead and dive in and get an e3d. I just had one of the stock bowden tube fittings break (hot end jam, caused it to blow the tube out). I am ...

I unjammed the extruder... It was the aluminium threaded cylinder which holds the filament tube locking thingy in place. I rewound the filament and forgot to cut off the melted end, which promptly jammed in there.
Cool tip: Freeze that aluminium block and the filament was pretty easy to pop right out.

I don't think the z lift helped much. Perhaps I need to go larger (I only went from .2 to .3 lift) ... I will try this on the next attempt.

I'm continuing this thread here since it seemed more fitting to a run of failed prints

http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=3944

Sometime last night, the filament tube popped off and metres of filament spilled out. Currently it's jammed, awaiting a fix, but I was able to see the majority of the print done. Even without the filament mess up, it's got some issues. This is sort of a continuation from this thread: http://forum.se...

Retract helped a little, there are some blobs on the location still, I'll do the randomize now.

That's a good idea. I might up that.

Bah I knew I was forgetting something. Slic3r.
I need to come up with my default stats to paste into my posts...

Two opposite sides of a thin walled print: [img]http://i.imgur.com/ZrxJPnG.jpg?1[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/FWww2qy.jpg?1[/img] This is the location of the nozzle leaving one side and moving over the opposite. It initially left a spider web of ultra thin strands between the two. Thoughts on this?...

Ok thanks! Luckily it seems I wont need to go through the whole shebang!

Oh wait, I don't need all that? I just need to read the fine tuning section eh.... Sorry.

I was attempting to do a full extruder calibration as recommended in the assembly manual: http://reprap.org/wiki/Triffid_Hunter%27s_Calibration_Guide However, I have no idea where to find the answers to these, questions: - Know your stepper motors' full steps per revolution value. steps = 360 / angl...

Thanks!

I have not been able to find a definite answer - some say .5 and some say .3.

Thanks for the encouragement, yes I was pleased with it - compared to the last printer I had this is printing better on the test print than it ever did, even after months of tweaking. The blobs visible are from the bridging yes, but there were a few little ones littering the internals before it got ...

Using glow ABS and the default companion cube settings, here's the result: [img]http://i.imgur.com/GiWBPKU.jpg?1[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/mOpXKtp.jpg?1[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/dsXsF4y.jpg?1[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/pbolYyP.jpg?1[/img] Very pleased with this for a first print. I edged...

Yep pretty much couldn't be any further and on the same land mass Oh well, we have the solidarity of Australian spirit to guide us ever onward!

Thanks Eagle, you have been most helpful and welcoming already!

Starfish - on the Sunshine Coast, you?

My dad and I went halves in a Rostock Max a few months back and have been slowly piecing it together in between work. I amped up the progress since I got laid off last week, so it's almost done! I blew up a hot end resistor and so am waiting on a few fuses (Please SeeMeCNC, include 2 spare fuses!) T...

Looks like RS online has them as well with free shipping - unlike the $34 shipping of DigiKey.

Lol, soldier on, not solder on - that would be disastrous

Oh ok, I will order some now... Damn more waiting :/

Hey thanks for the help, glad you're around.

Oh. I was afraid of this... I will check fuses now.... Actually it looks like one of them has blown, the one closest to the power. Hopefully this means I can replace and soldier on? I'm out to find some fuses. I read someone say that 10A is a better choice - thoughts?

I read these two posts: http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=2271" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (The problem was the 5A nano fuse) http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=2717&p=20481&hilit=no+voltage+on+hot+end#p20481" onclick="w...