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It's printing like a champ now. I must have printed 7-8 things today and the only failures were my fault. I've just been popping parts off, reprinting right on old hairspray that I put on this morning when I first started. Probably clean and reapply before tomorrows printing challenge:) Think maybe ...

I also switched to hairspray and everything sticks like a rock!!! Also tried a large Kapton tape square and liked that except during a large flat print it actually wrinkled/pulled the tape loose. Hairspray is kinda a pain to clean off after a print, but the "stickiosity" is pretty awesome;-) Dan

During disassembly I found the culprit. Bad solder joint on my thermistor plug. The micro Deans connector I used for this plug can be a beast to solder, especially when you can't see very well like me(glasses are never handy when I need 'em, ha!). Anyways the wire popped free during disassembly ...

Yes, fire hazard, understood. Started taking it apart tonight, haven't found anything obvious yet. Will probably replace thermistor and its wiring as a precaution before proceeding. Could be a bad solder joint in one of my plugs, I use soldered connectors at my hotend. Actually rethinking that and ...

Had another fail mid print with same error last night, then one today where it just stopped in one spot and shutdown. The one where it shutdown the nozzle temp read 10.8C whereas the bed was still reading room temperature (it was already cooled when I found it). when I homes the arms the temp jumped ...

Ouch, that's gonna be tough to troubleshoot since after it croaked I turned it off/on and ran both the bed and hotend up to temp without issue. Means I got a loose connection "somewhere", joy:( I have a question though that someone may know. I saved the output window info before rebooting, would ...

Started a long print this afternoon, large hollow pyramid. All looked good, print was going ok, I left the machine going towards the end of the print and came back to find incomplete print. MatterControl Touch sent me an email and text saying the print completed, but it didn't. LCD on the machine ...

Well I had a couple really ugly failed prints. I cleaned the glass REALLY good, applied glue stick carefully and evenly, but still not great. Finally decided to give Kapton tape a try and not so bad. Still having an issue with corners peeling up (trying to print pyramid shapes for kids school ...

Yup, I finished calibration and have printed 3 successful prints: http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7569 Calibration took me some time to get my head around. Set zero Z, then each of the 3 limits, then the radius for bed center, then back through XYZ again quite a few times till all four ...

Prints 2 and 3, layer fan shroud and a stand for my MatterControl Touch!!! Came out great!!! The stand was my first print using the touch as well, 2 previous prints were driven from my PC. The MCT has a pretty decent interface, no brainer after using the PC version of MC. Next I'm going to try some ...

I used Deans for the heater, micro Deans for the sensor and JST for the PEEK fan or heat barrier fan in my case with the E3D hotend. I put another micro Deans on for the layer fan and sharpied it black. I have tons of those connectors laying around from RC helicopters and airplanes, but I really ...

Ran my v2 for the first time last night, got it moving, but no temp reading on hotend during testing, hotend got hot however. Luckily I had ordered an E3D hotend already planning to replace the stocker. During disassembley I found that the temp sensor had actually come loose from the hotend ...

Yes, going to use MatterControl along with the MatterControl Touch tablet. I haven't actually printed anything yet, and have yet to slice anything either, I've just loaded .stl's into it, generated Gcode and placed them on the virtual print area. I'm still a few days out from any actual printing ...

I've lived in Texas for the last 15 years, however I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area and lived all over between SF and San Diego. Northern and Southern California should almost be considered two different states, very different cultures in a lot of ways. Personally love both for ...

Trying to upload a photo of my build. Going pretty well so far. I've just finished installing the top and connecting the end stop wires. The build quality is really good, I'm impressed on how I'll look at the manual, look at the build, maybe think,"How the heck is that going to go? That's gonna be ...

The tape I got from Amazon appears to be the right stuff, sticky as it should be. I only wish I had known the first roll was going to be a dud before I made the drive and wasted the $$$ on it. I can understand why a vendor wouldn't ship the RTV in the kit (possible leakage, possibly different ...

I'm going to use MatterControl and have also picked up a MatterControl Touch. Save as stl from Catia and then Matter control does the gcode. Looks like it will work very simply. Haven't act printed anything yet, so simple is a relative word right now, haha!

Dan

I got the Rostock Max V2 kit in black also. It is going together really well, nice close tolerance fitting lazer cut parts, the manual pdf does a real good job if you read every word and don't rush(bad habit of mine). Any flounders I've had so far was because I didn fully read each step. I've just ...

Hey there, also in Fort Worth and just arrived on this forum. Whereabout are you located, I'm up off of Western Center and Beach?

Dan

Hello forum, I've been using large 3D printer at work for the last few years and decided I'd like to have one at home for non work stuff. Ordered a Rostock Max V2 last week and started the build this week. Very nice design and goes together pretty well so far. Only "problem" I've run into is that I ...