I finished assembling my printer over the weekend. Mistakes were made, parts were broken, but parts of it totally work. On the long term, I need to go the traditional, bootstrap the meh parts with new custom parts. On the short term I definitely should replace at least the one linear being that I started dropping the balls out of.
Oh… I should also figure out why only the x-axis consistently moves. X guess left and right like butter, though the tension is complete shit. The Y will move to the front and then the back and then grind like it can’t find it’s home position. The z-axis, when manually moved up will head towards home, but then the left side will come to a standstill while the right hand still has quite a bit to go. Moving up just didn’t happen.
Y – Let’s check by resetting the configuration first. Then make sure the cables are in tight. Try switching the direction of travel (or manually trigger the limit switch in the other direction?) on the Y. Try switching the motors (x and y). Try to remove microstepping?
Z-Oh you little devil Z. Check for loose connections? Try swapping motors? I’m just not sure?