Finish the build
Vitamins
| Description | Count |
|---|---|
| Glass plate or mirror | 1 |
| Binder clip | 4 |
Assembly
- Put the glass plate on the pcb and attach it on the front and back with binder clips.
- Start the printer interface on the computer and connect to the printer.
- Using your hand, move the X carriage to the middle of the rail and the bed to the middle of the printer.
- Switch on the power to the printer.
- Instruct it to go 10 mm into the negative X direction. Check that it moves to the left.
- With your finger at the reset switch on the controller board, instruct it to home the X axis. It should move to the left until the flagged belt terminator hits the limit switch. If somehting goes wrong, hit the reset switch on the controller board.
- Instruct the printer to go 10 mm to the negative Y direction and check that it moves the bed to the back.
- Check that the y home instruction works, similar the the x home instruction.
- Move the z 10 mm up and check that it does. Repeat this until the rail is approximately halfway between the bed and the top.
- Instruct the z axis to go home and when it starts moving, activate the z endstop by hand. It should stop, back up a bit and come a bit further down. If it doesn't stop, reset the controller board.
- With the z endstop very low, move the head down until it just hits the bed. Make sure you don't go too far down by using smaller steps when it gets close.
- Move the head left and right with the x controls. Screw the left or right motor by hand until it is at the same height over the entire range.
- Similarly, move the bed front and back with the y controls. You shouldn't need to adjust anything, but if you do, use the nuts on the corners of the bed to tilt it. Count the number of turns you make, and make the same amount of turns to the left and right side.
- With the head touching the bed, move the z endstop against the flexible part of the x motor mount.
- Instruct the z to go home. Adjust the screw and repeat until the home position is where the head is just not touching the bed. The distance should be approximately 0.1 mm.
- Instruct the extruder to retract some filament. Check that the wheel rotates in the direction that would retract it.
- Switch the printer motors off (this is a button in the printer interface).
- Load up the filament by pushing it in and rotating the big gear by hand, until you see it entering the bowden tube.
- Instruct the extruder to heat up to 200 degrees. Wait for it to reach it.
- Move the z up by 20 mm (twice 10 mm).
- Extrude 500 mm of filament.
- Extrude 200 mm of filament. That should make some filament come out of the nozzle.
- Your printer is now ready for use.