Man i live a bit west of you in ofallon mo and had a better show than us.... Still blew my mind and made me a bit worried as to how easily we could be erased from existance lol😅
keeping in mind the spirit of open source. it would be awesoem to see you build a voron 2.4. Please take a look. I am sure LDO motors would be happy to send you a kit as well.
How is the manual on the S1? I bought a Ender 3 V2 for my first printer in 2021 and it's manual was so awful that I ended up watching a few videos on how to put it together.
It's not *too* bad, but I admit, a few months ago I had watched a video to prepare, so I had a little idea of what was coming. It was a lot easier than the V2.
Love it, i bought a ender 3 s1 plus yesterday and can‘t wait to start tinkering with 3d printing. Already considering flashing it with klipper and using fluidd for monitoring
A lot of the question of the manually leveling the bed has to do with how it's attached to the printer. If it has leveling knobs, then yes, I'll do manual leveling in addition to working with the ABL. If it doesn't I'm kind of stuck with whatever the ABL can work out.
They don't show how to attach the Z and Gantry to the base well, but most people I know of simply set them on their side, and make an effort to not put a lot of pressure on the gantry.
If you haven't run into it yet, my experience with Creality spring steel beds has been that the pei sheet all too often hangs onto the print a lot more than you would like. Mostly that means it starts peeling off the spring steel. Microcenter carries a BIQI textured springsteel plate that works great in place of the Creality one, and seems (to me anyway) to be a more durable surface, and it does release the print once it's cooled down. The bed seems to be pretty much the same one that Bambu Labs printers are using, and I've had pretty good luck with those as well.
This is one of the big reasons I wanted to work on this channel-I like watching these kinds of videos, and learning tidbits or just seeing how someone else goes through a process like it!
I have the Ender 5 and was very impressed with everything except the auto leveling. It didn't work at all as per the instructions and after patterning all over the board it was happy, only to completely melt and gouge the board on the first print. Watching you go through the leveling was a little triggering :) I found a YT video that helped a lot more than the manual but did have to get some replacement boards from AliExpress. It's all fine now and is an amazing printer. Just the auto leveling... there's nothing 'auto' about it.
lol, Jeff. This is literally me but without the time constraint. I have the exact same printer sitting for the last year unopened waiting for the right time. maybe now is that time. Cheers.
I live within 15 minutes of 2 Micro Centers (ty NYC) and these Enders are by far the most tempting thing about the entire store. They go on sale for $100-$150 pretty often and there’s tons of shelf support for 3D printers, parts, accessories, etc.
As an Ender 3 graduate. Buying Ender 3 at a cheap price is tempting. But please save your sanity by buying a Bambulab A1 mini. These things are just press print and go
@@PanduPujoWicaksono you’re the second person to tell me to go with Bambu, I’ll def look into it. Still not sure if 3D printing is something I’ll end up sticking with though, and $120 is a reaaaal low barrier to entry in case it ends up collecting dust after a few months.
If you plug in a Raspberry Pi running Octoprint there's a plugin that lets you visualise the BL Touch's mesh of the bed including the degs rotation you'd need to get level. OctoPrint is pretty much a necessity for Ender's.
@@Level2JeffYou should explore Klipper. It's a whole new game for 3D printers and feeds into your raspberry Pi and software experience. It's pretty easy to setup even though it seems intimidating and can really improve speeds and quality.
Got the same printer, just a head up Jeff, the ribbon cable is prone to kinking near the extruder (common issue). Had to request a new cable for mine. Best to print a cable holder/guide. Has been working great every since.
its good to check the manual levelling first, the usual piece of paper under the nozzle, and adjust the manual underneath levelling knobs, then any general zaxis adjustment. after that, the autolevelling allows for variations of flatness of the bed. the printer looks very similar to my elegoo neptune4, (albeit that has touch screen), and initial manual levelling took me a while as well, as the documentation wasn't as clear as I would like. You can also compensate for a slightly bulging first layer using slicer settings. On Ultimaker Cura it's called "initial layer horizontal expansion" (i've also seen it called elephants feet)
To answer you question about bed leveling.. in my experience for best results you want to have it as level as possible before using BL touch.. since that only does it's best to compensate for inperfections I use klipper with my Ender3v2.. with "screws tilt calculate" it will tell me exactly how to turn screws to level my bed.. and it can do sooo many other things as well
I have been using a membrane switch under the head to set the z axis. Cheap and easy, battery, membrane switch, & a LED. LED lights up, position is set . :)
I invested in a Bambu P1S Combo, having had no experience of 3D printers, but from an electronics background. Setup took 15 minutes and I was running my first print with 30 minutes of opening the box. Super pleased with the printer and it has hardly been switched off in the last month. Worth looking at if you are getting another printer.
Something I recently learned after living in a high humidity environment for quite some time - vacuum bags and reusable desiccant are underrated for filament storage. Just picked up some bags and a cheap manual pump for ~$30 and I'm optimistic for less spoilage in my future
And don't forget to regenerate them by heating them regularly - I have a couple of 550g industrial desiccant bags in my filament storage box and they pick up up 10-15% of their weight in humidity within a month.
@@Fabri91 Yeah I've tried using random desiccant in a cabinet with little luck, it gets moist too fast. That's what I'm hoping the resealable vacuum bags will do - keep moisture to a minimum after all the air has been sucked out. The desiccant is mostly just a precaution.
Yep! Three generations ago my family migrated from Holland-I don't know Dutch but we still cheer for the Netherlands every four years during the world cup!
Awesome! Once you've got it set up and able to print a 3DBenchy, it opens a whole world of stuff you can do, especially when you combine it with even a simple CAD software like the free browser-based TinkerCAD one.
@@KenPiper I hope there's a better option. If one has to rely on an Autodesk app/service for 3d printing, a company right there with Adobe in how terrible and anti-consumer they are, I guess that's a hobby not to invest in.
@@aromaticsnailIt's by far not the only option. OpenSCad and Blender are popular options, but there exist other free parametric modeling packages (such as FreeCAD).
If you are having trouble with the first layers make sure you preheat the bed for at least 5 mins. Poor bed heating leads to more problems than anything.
(~) 1:45 with your wife taking over the basement area for sewing since you've got this new studio, might want to get one anyway just for her fabric at least lol.
