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iDig,
here's the link to the rd printer I bought.

hope it works.

Thanks for the reply, I understand this is a huge learning curve but I love the whole concept of 3d printing and for now I'm really happy I'm getting this machine working. Printed out an empty cube tonight with no lid/top and it looks ace, like spun white silk.
Cheers.

iDig3D,
What do you mean about the configuration.h file and the recommended steps/mm for the stepper motor? I'm new to all this, I was an engineer 50 years ago but this computer printing jargon is above me for now. What is .h file and how do you do these things?
I appreciate your interest.

Success, I have printed a cube, now where is the Borg, haha
It was the Z axis threaded rod sticking and this must have been overloading the motor.

I'll see how I get on with the printer now.

I have cleared up the misaligned threaded Z rod and the Z axis motor is now going up and down with manual control.
I'll do a test cube when I get this back together.

The threaded Z axis rod isn't lined up and is jamming the motor, it's off a big bit. tried the motor with the rod uncoupled and it works fine, but not when the screw rod is coupled up. It's a pain in the bahookey is this thing.

I have just discovered that my Z axis is not moving up in manual test, the X and Y are moving all the way in the manual test, is it a bad connection possibly? I'll leave for tonight.

What see is happening is the Z axis is not moving upwards and this is causing the rough layer and the rumbling, have I maybe moved some setting in the control box? I am getting fed up with it only printing base layer then it goes to pot. I have the auto bed levelling working fine, I am using a sheet...

My problems are really my ignorance of 3d printing in general and buying a printer with no user instructions at all. My knowledge on 3d printing comes from Youtub video's. So far I have worked out how to load a working Gcode using Ideamaker, a simple cube, this prints the bottom layer or two okay th...