My 3D printer logbook - desiquintans.com

A logbook of 3D printing-related things that I’ve fixed or modified, so that I can read back and figure out how to solve the same problem later. Also may contain small experiments that aren’t developed enough for a full article.

A note on stiction between plastic-paint interfaces

(#23, written on 2020 Aug 02.)

Back to 4-point bed mounting, switching to Cura

(#22, written on 2020 Jul 29.)

One-click printing from Simplify3D to Octoprint

(#21, written on 2017 Oct 15.)

Drama with Y carriage polymer bushing conversion

(#20, written on 2017 Oct 13.)

Rigid bed mounting

(#19, written on 2017 Oct 11.)

Extruder clicking fixed, vibration stuff

(#18, written on 2017 Oct 10.)

All-metal hotend installed, and it brought some new problems in

(#17, written on 2017 Oct 09.)

Further progress with Lack enclosure

(#16, written on 2017 Oct 08.)

Vibration fixed! More improvements, but new limitations.

(#15, written on 2017 Oct 07.)

Planning a bearing experiment with IGUS filament

(#14, written on 2017 Sep 28.)

Steps/mm, extrusion problems, camera mount

(#13, written on 2017 Sep 24.)

Ringing Part 9: Vibrations, bushings, and 3-point mounting

(#12, written on 2017 Sep 23.)

Ringing Part 8: Make it worse before making it better

(#11, written on 2017 Sep 22.)

Ringing Part 7: The story so far

(#10, written on 2017 Sep 22.)

Ringing Part 6: Z-brace mod

(#9, written on 2017 Sep 21.)

Ringing Part 5: Checking the modifications

(#8, written on 2017 Sep 20.)

Ringing Part 4: Did it work?

(#7, written on 2017 Sep 19.)

Ringing Part 3: Belt re-tensioning and bearing replacement

(#6, written on 2017 Sep 19.)

Ringing Part 2: Installing PETG bushings on Y axis

(#5, written on 2017 Sep 18.)

Ringing Part 1: Tightening the belts

(#4, written on 2017 Sep 18.)

Bed levelling techniques

(#3, written on 2017 Sep 17.)

Thoughts on the Wanhao print surface

(#2, written on 2017 Sep 17.)

Setting up my new Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus, the Desibot 2.

(#1, written on 2017 Sep 16.)