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cs2000
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cs2000
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What model of 3D printers I own (optional):
A5
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Just with regards to the thick plastic sticker on the front. Just forget about it. Peel it off and chuck it in the bin. It makes the screen feel so much more responsive and other than acting as a "sc…
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ChantalV
<p> Hey guys,</p><p>Not an issue currently as ive fixed it, but I'm curious to understand what happened here. Sorry for the long read, but im trying to get all the facts down.<…
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Samuel Pinches
Been running this on my Octoprint instance for a while now, but due to my recent printer hardware issues, ive not had much printing time until this last week or so. Well, the Spaghetti Detective actu…
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Samuel Pinches
Will almost certainly be that old Z endstop mate. Standard practice is to remove it totally, or move it down on the adjustment screws so its not making contact any longer.
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Samuel Pinches
<p>Hey all, this may be common knowledge, I don't know!</p><p>I was looking at the LCD community firmware and wondered what a certain value meant, I googled this and a few links dee…
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GrayCountertop
Well, you certainly have many plans!
1. Can a raspberry pi even run an FTP server and octoprint?
<b>Yes, absolutly, you can get the OctoPi image, then install an FTP server on that …
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Samuel Pinches
OK, tried flashing the latest stock firmware in your Dropbox. after a bit of fiddling I got it loaded, but the printer does the same thing, so that rules out firmware as the issue then
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Samuel Pinches
<p>Well, the wiki is now complete! </p><p>The grease I did apply was heavy duty stuff meant for wheel bearings on cars so it wasn't ideal, but it proved the point. Ive since removed…
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Samuel Pinches
<p>OK, got it sorted I think, just running a few test prints with the probe activated, first few went OK, doing one more long (20hr) print now to 100% confirm.</p><p>I have updated …
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Samuel Pinches
<p>Well rather embarasingly, I figured it out. I accidentally touched the threaded rods and realised they weren't lubricated, they were sticky! The grinding noise was not the motors, but rather…
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Samuel Pinches
<p>Well, well, well... My new PrintBite surface arrived yesterday, only had time to verify that on a standard LCD mesh level, it worked OK. </p><p>Today i found time and took the A5…
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Samuel Pinches
<p>Well, so far, im admitting defeat. Ive spent the best part of a week trying incredibly hard to get this working, but the repeatability of the probes is just non existent so far. Im still wai…
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Samuel Pinches
<p>Hi everyone,</p><p>Ive been putting some work (more hours than i care to admit) into improving both the general understanding and the documentation for this on the wiki over her…
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Samuel Pinches
Mesh leveling is really simple, go and read the wiki and/or watch Da Hai's video on doing it (but he issues the commands manually through Pronterface).
Just tap the "Extras" (i think its call…
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Samuel Pinches
<p>That LCD message about No Files Found only usually comes up in two scenarios. </p><p>1. You booted the printer up with a USB stick inserted and the LCD is telling you it didn't f…
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Samuel Pinches