07-03-2017, 09:21 AM
I have this printer up and running ... Prusa3d ... with a love-hate relationship. When it first arrived it had a defective display. Given that the kit is from the Czechoslovakia getting a replacement took a while. I finally got it working but it now has lost calibration and I've not had the time or the energy to resolve that issue. When calibrating it will find 8 of the 9 calibration points on the bed but will drive the extruder into the bed attempting to detect the 9th one. Luckily [using the term loosly] it is a corner and all it does is flex the bed rather than break either the bed or the extruder. I believe it might be the PIMDA ... the thing that detects how far above the print bed the extruder is ... or the bed itself, but have not gone beyond that.
I was using PLA to start with but have been experimenting with PETG. According to the specs it is about a strong as ABS but does not have the ABS aroma when printing. Regretfully it does not respond to acetone smoothing like ABS will either, but that is the trade-off for Bev allowing me to have printer that does not offend her nose upstairs.
I also have the V2 version of this kit ... ROCKSTOCK MAX ... "in the process of being assembled". Bev is suggesting that I no longer buy kits as it takes me so long to put them together
Arvid
I was using PLA to start with but have been experimenting with PETG. According to the specs it is about a strong as ABS but does not have the ABS aroma when printing. Regretfully it does not respond to acetone smoothing like ABS will either, but that is the trade-off for Bev allowing me to have printer that does not offend her nose upstairs.
I also have the V2 version of this kit ... ROCKSTOCK MAX ... "in the process of being assembled". Bev is suggesting that I no longer buy kits as it takes me so long to put them together
Arvid