paulrhee2002

Hello and thanks in advance for any help you can provide! I have a creality cr-10 v3. There seems to be consensus to use the cr-10 cura profile. The grey outline on my models are very large and only allows me to slice objects up to 230mm on a 300x300 print bed. I know there are issues on the ender 3 and disallowed areas on the borders but I seem to be having a different problem. The grey area outlining the models seems to be huge even when I use "none" for bed adhesion etc. You can see from the pictures below that there is no disallowed border but a really wide grey shadow even though there is no bed adhesion.

Ok makes sense to do a factory reset. I'm still a newb and was totally unsure what to do so thank you. Will adjust the z stop and check the wiring on that also. I have tried to look up how to do a reset for an issue with my first printer, which worked for a year, but got frustrated and just bought this one. I guess I really need to learn that and maybe I can use my old one again too. Thank you again, very much appreciated

Hello I hope someone has had some experience with this and can help me out. I have an artillery sidewinder, I changed the nozzle to 1mm and to be clear IT WAS WORKING FINE FOR OVER A MONTH. I had a print stoppage because of filament runout (it has a filament runout sensor). I did not resume print and just changed the filament. When I tried the next print, the nozzle slams into the bed when I try to auto level it, home, print. THe probe extends and stays extended when it touches the bed and the whole nozzle hits the bed and pushes it down, then raises and lowers again and then theres grinding noises and it fails, with a "probing failed" error message. It was working fine so I cant imagine it's a code issue or even an offset issue, but what do I know. Just all of a sudden after the runout stoppage it went haywire. Some please please help!!!!

Hello I hope someone has had some experience with this and can help me out. I have an artillery sidewinder, I changed the nozzle to 1mm and to be clear IT WAS WORKING FINE FOR OVER A MONTH. I had a print stoppage because of filament runout (it has a filament runout sensor). I did not resume print and just changed the filament. When I tried the next print, the nozzle slams into the bed when I try to auto level it, home, print. THe probe extends and stays extended when it touches the bed and the whole nozzle hits the bed and pushes it down, then raises and lowers again and then theres grinding noises and it fails, with a "probing failed" error message. It was working fine so I cant imagine it's a code issue or even an offset issue, but what do I know. Just all of a sudden after the runout stoppage it went haywire. Some please please help!!!!

Printing PCTPE nylon with a sidewinder direct drive printer, with a 1mm nozzle. Printing at 240 temp and 10 mm/s speed. Thought that slow speed would give it plenty of time to melt. I did not keep the nylon properly dried and definitely see and hear the steam pops but could it be this bad because of that? Something is way off. I have attached some pics Any help is greatly appreciated!!! Also having massive trouble getting nylon to stick, trying double sided tape...

Hello, I have a tevo black widow and the entire hot end got clogged up in a ball of nylon filament. When this happened, the printer showed a MAXTEMP error message and was completely unresponsive, meaning I could not change screens, it was just the error message and I could not do anything. so I REPLACED THE ENTIRE HOTEND. It still shows the MAXTEMP error message and is still unresponsive. I of course tried pressing the reset button but it flashes and restarts but goes right to the same error message. Anyone have any experience or ideas for why this is happening? I thought when I replaced the entire hot that would solve the problem as I though a wire had gotten messed up or something. Any help would be appreciated!! THanks! -Paul

Hello, I have a tevo black widow and the entire hot end got clogged up in a ball of nylon filament. When this happened, the printer showed a MAXTEMP error message and was completely unresponsive, meaning I could not change screens, it was just the error message and I could not do anything. so I REPLACED THE ENTIRE HOTEND. It still shows the MAXTEMP error message and is still unresponsive. I of course tried pressing the reset button but it flashes and restarts but goes right to the same error message. Anyone have any experience or ideas for why this is happening? I thought when I replaced the entire hot that would solve the problem as I though a wire had gotten messed up or something. Any help would be appreciated!! THanks

Thanks so much Greg!!

hhahahaha When I have car problems I pop the hood and look at the engine, shake my head and then call a real man to fix it... I will watch some youtube videos on how to solder, and then after I burn down my machine I will likely buy a new one hehe. Thank you for the help, it is much appreciated!! One more question, how in the heck do I figure out which wire connects to black and which to red? The new hotend wires are both blue.....

Hello, I am trying to install a new hotend on my tevo black widow printer. The female connections my printer uses is in picture 1. Picture 2 shoes the normal male connection on the left as compared to the male connection that came with the new hot end on the right. Also picture 3 shows the blue connections I have to make from the hot end to the other end of the e3d male connection. The blue wires do not fit into the slots. Can I just connect the blue wires directly to tevo female connection and skip that adapter that doesnt fit anyway? Any help is appreciated, never had to do any wiring like this before!! Thank you. -Paul

So the heat sink thing is probably wishful thinking on my part? Hopefully it's fixable and will get a soldering iron. I'm fairly new to 3d printing so today I learned heat sink and soldering iron. Thanks so much Erin!

Hello all, Hope everyone is doing well and thanks for any help in advance. I have a failed print and the hardened filament encased the entire hot end. Wanted to just heat up the hotend and try to melt it but my tevo black widow will not let me get past the home screen where I get a "mintemp" error message. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you both so much for the replies!!!! Sorry for the late reply on my part

Anyone know of any free phone or ipad apps for 3d scanning feet that give .stl files as their format? I know there are apps like techmed but that's a pay per scan service. I have to do potentially several scans per day and looking for something free and in .stl Any help is greatly appreciated thank you!

Thank you all for the responses. Will try out those recommendations!