I bought a second hand ultimaker 3 extended and noticed it has some ringing or inconsistencies in the y axis.
The wall along the x axis looks smooth, but the wall along the y axis looks really rough.
Shiny black exaggerates the imperfections, but you can also feel the roughness with your finger and it is visible in other colors.
The walls are printed with the default cura profile with a 0.4mm nozzle and 80mm/s speed (30mm/s outer wall speed). Printing slower makes it less pronounced, but even if i print at 20mm/s outer wall speed the y axis looks still worse than the x axis. On my old printer, a wanhao 4x, the outer walls look and feel about as good as the x axis of the ultimaker. Both x and y axis look about the same. It is printed at the same outer wall speed.
I suspected it might be a bad Y axis bearing. So i replaced it, and also replaced the rod, just to be sure. Unfortunately nothing changed and the prints looks just as bad as before on the y axis. The ringing or inconsistencies are also clearly visible in this benchy (a part is painted gray).
Benchy with rough walls on the y axis, printed in the defualt 0.15mm profile
I then printed a bearing from pla, which probably won't last very long. But it did improve the quality of the y axis. It is a lot smoother. Not a great long term solution.
Pla bearing and y axis wall with pla bearing
Is there something else wrong with my printer or do all ultimaker 3's print this bad on the y axis?
Does anyone else has this problem? I attached the test file i used in case anyone wants to test it on their ultimaker 3 (extended).
The filament I used is ice pla black but the problem also happens with other filaments.
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