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by PAUL1962
Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: bit of a rant and asking for help
Replies: 4
Views: 9531

Re: bit of a rant and asking for help

Hi and thanks for e reply the printer is a A8 3D Printer Prusa i3 Reprap - MK8 Extruder - MK3 Heatbed - LCD Controller - UK bought off ebay and built by me all things went togeather ok and thats it really, as for flashing the board ? I dont know how, also dont know how to check what ever firmware it...
by PAUL1962
Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: leaving
Replies: 0
Views: 4461

leaving

Ok I realise that people work and dont have time to be on a forum, but after my at least 6-7 times of asking for help on my 3d printer and nothing comming back my way, I am going to call it quits and get rid of my printer as it is not working out for me, and even me asking for help, not much has com...
by PAUL1962
Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: bit of a rant and asking for help
Replies: 4
Views: 9531

bit of a rant and asking for help

Again asking for help, my printer came with its board and I have plugged everything in as best i could, the lcd screen lit up followed all the sections on it, but when I think Iam loading a gcode file to print, the printer "hotend" goes to one side and prints a line of melted PLA and know ...
by PAUL1962
Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: mother board
Replies: 0
Views: 4263

mother board

Is there away you can re-set the mother board on the printer as mine just prints the same thing all the time? even though
the SD card is on with different Gcode shapes etc, so just want to wipe the slate cleen and start again

but this is driving me crazy

thanks

Paul
by PAUL1962
Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: help again
Replies: 0
Views: 4287

help again

Not getting much joy, but I will try again, my lattest problem is no matter what is on the SD card, the printer just prints out a long ish blob then sort of cuts a grove in to it and get to 24% then comes unstuck and comes off the board what amI doing wrong ? it doesnt matter what is on the card the...
by PAUL1962
Wed Sep 26, 2018 3:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: help
Replies: 1
Views: 4523

Re: help

would like to add that the board may have blown as the filament is not comming out of the motor so does that mean a new mother board ????
by PAUL1962
Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: help
Replies: 1
Views: 4523

help

new hot end fitted all wires are connected correctly started up the machine and all its doing now is going from left to right stopping when it hit the stop switch thing goin back about 2 mill then ro the stop switch etc etc etc i have now left it thinking it will sort it self out but no after 20 min...
by PAUL1962
Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: filament not sticking to the bed ?
Replies: 8
Views: 14790

Re: filament not sticking to the bed ?

nozel i think is set to 205 bed is 50 it stars to print but looks like after a few mills it pulling the filament with the hot end
it does not want to stick , I have tried different tape and even hair spray filament is FILO PLA from 3dfilo.com bought from Amazon,


thanks

Paul
by PAUL1962
Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 3d printing
Replies: 1
Views: 5286

3d printing

Ok so having just built another printer and turned it on loaded a model from the sd card and sent to print Nothing, then a thin line of filament then clicking then nothing, then filamnet comming out in Blob, then the filament on the bed is dragged off by the extruder then nothing. other people seem ...
by PAUL1962
Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:16 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: filament not sticking to the bed ?
Replies: 8
Views: 14790

Re: filament not sticking to the bed ?

hi thanks for the reply, not sure what type pla it is, it came with the printer, but will re tape the bed and re level and turn fan off untill first layer is doen see what happens thanks again

Paul