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if you havent... add some fine maschine oil to all the axis.. a little will do.
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Just one little note on that:
Don't put oil on the leadscrew (the large center screw that makes the z-stage move up and down)!
The leadscrew comes with its own little pack of green grease which must be applied to it (and nowhere else).
Should be clear, but you never know who might google up this topic and read nothing else...
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ian 32
good morning :-)
first of all congaradulations on your first good print !
Next thing is... with an ultimaker1 you need to build it carefully and tight and then its all put together properly... oil the bars and slide the hotend so it slides around smoothly... So you have the hard stuff done.
Now that your ultimaker is all together..... if you havent... add some fine maschine oil to all the axis.. a little will do.
add good printed belt tighteners to your long belts... that will help.
then start printing and look down carefully at the moment of the belts.. if you see the rubber moving around a little on the pully. then your allignment is not perfect. loosen the grub screws and reallign.
Then in Cura with your first model... add Brim. this will allow you to get the plastic bumping before printing.
Then print hote to start 240... that normally gets the old gunk from the last project out of the nozzle.
then start printing slow for the first layers.... 50 would be ok.
Then after the first layers are good.. slowly drop up the speed to 70 and you can bring down the temp to 220.
fans turned on.. that will help stop bubbles in the plastic surface...
Then print and get better and better and better.... :-)
Ian :-)
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