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Re-calibrating - can't get Horizontal Radius to touch paper?

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:00 pm
by add1ct3dd
Just came back to redo my horizontal radius as I noticed printing wide prints it was arching and the center was too high, and the outsides too low.

I was at 129.5 for my Horizontal Radius when I originally calibrated the printer, so I went back to the manual to get the right steps to know what to do.


So I have done this in the following order:

* Set Z=0 with paper
* Z-Tower Adjust macro and adjusted endstop as required
* Y-Tower Adjust macro and adjusted endstop as required
* X-Tower Adjust macro and adjusted endstop as required
* Bed Center - paper is not being grabbed at all, increased 0.5
* Bed Center - paper is not being grabbed at all, increased 0.5
* Bed Center - paper is not being grabbed at all, increased 0.5
* Bed Center - paper is not being grabbed at all, increased 0.5
* This was a familiar pattern so I started going in higher increments from 1's, to 2's, to 5's - up to 150mm - still the Bed Center macro has 0 change in how high it is - it is STILL not grabbing the paper :S

Am I calibrating it wrong? It seems I must be for the height to not change at Bed Center?


Should I maybe doing it in this order?
* Z-Tower Adjust macro and adjusted endstop as required
* Y-Tower Adjust macro and adjusted endstop as required
* X-Tower Adjust macro and adjusted endstop as required
* Bed Center - paper is not being grabbed at all, increased 0.5
* Repeat above.

I validated all my macros are correct, so not sure what I'm doing wrong?

Any help much appreciated.

Re: Re-calibrating - can't get Horizontal Radius to touch pa

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:18 pm
by add1ct3dd
I'm an idiot, of course it's the second set of instructions. Just done it, ended up at 130.3, much better.

Re: Re-calibrating - can't get Horizontal Radius to touch pa

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:32 pm
by geneb
There's something to be said for flowcharts *coughs* :D

g.

Re: Re-calibrating - can't get Horizontal Radius to touch pa

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:43 pm
by add1ct3dd
geneb wrote:There's something to be said for flowcharts *coughs* :D

g.
100%

(If there was one, I missed it :D)

Re: Re-calibrating - can't get Horizontal Radius to touch pa

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:02 pm
by geneb
Page 240. :)

g.

Re: Re-calibrating - can't get Horizontal Radius to touch pa

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:41 pm
by add1ct3dd
geneb wrote:Page 240. :)

g.
Damnit!!

Ahh well, at least I finally worked it out - now perfectly level again and printing awesome.

I had a failure a few days back - the PTC connector had chewed through the bowden tube, and left the smalll piece it "grabs" inside!! Got some really nice ones through from a store online, back printing again.

improving print quality

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:12 am
by Emagine3d
Hi Everyone I am using Rostock max V2, the print quality was not great since all the cheapstakes are shaking and not stiff with the vertical pillars. Any idea to adjust cheapstakes and make it fit to the vertical pillars?

Re: Re-calibrating - can't get Horizontal Radius to touch pa

Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:40 am
by Mac The Knife