First time builder, currently in the process of printing the parts for the Lowrider V4.
Had an Ender 3 pro since the first COVID lockdown but haven’t used it for the past 3 years.
Spend first few days (in the spare couple of hours i had in the evenings) calibrating and trying to dial the prints in.
Printed Z nuts with success first and then tried the back wheel min although sucessfull, i slowed the print settings down due to the amount of artificats being left in the print.
Working up in size/ print duration and i’m now 60% through the YZ plate max which has a 24hr print time for me.
Yes, absolutely. I printed 3 LR3 cores because they were all a little crooked or came loose at corners and I had a crash with my MMU because I tried experimental settings on the core (yeah, stupid me, to save half an hour…) so printing a Core or the Plates isn’t feeling too great. I also added a brim to those two prints. Call it paranoia, but I’d rather scrape off the brim than to print a new core.
This is me EVERY time I print one of the larger parts. Good luck!
Tangle of spaghetti, parts come loose from the build plate, filament snag that causes a jam in the last few layers, curling overhangs catching on the nozzle, warping, and even an overheated RPi have all ruined some of my core attempts.
But it does make it much sweeter when the print looks really good!
I feel you there! I had some lift on some of the lr3 parts so I did a brim on the big parts for the LR4, safety first. During the core for the lr3 around 80% done we were hit by a storm that knocked out power for 6 days, it was heartbreaking
You must be Texan… The longest I have ever been without power was in a little village in the Blackforest for two days when all of the power lines connecting it to the grid (like 3 or 4) were simultaneously destroyed by falling trees that broke under the weight of the snow. Like, a 1:1000000 chance. Was pretty fun since nothing in the house really needs electricity and the heating is done by two tiled stoves, cooking can be done on a stove that runs with wood that simultaneously heated a stone bench in the other room for a warm behind… But that’s kind of off-topic (again).
Nope, 100% Canadian, do work for a company out of Texas though haha was just a freak storm with trees downing power lines all over the city, had to use the good old morter and pestle to grind my coffee and BBQ to boil my water.
Back on topic though, Thomas how goes the prints? Haven’t heard any cursing spaghetti yet so that’s a good sign!
Dropped the Alluminium off today to be cut on the waterjet cutting machine. Will collect the xz plates esrly next week.
Also ordered the Jackpot Board which ive been waiting to come back in stock. The rest of the bits of hardware i should be able to source on amazon locally which will save me a ton in shipping fees.
Question for anyone who may be reading this, I know i’m way off yet, but is there a link to any instructions or help on setting up for the first time, i.e connecting PC to the control board, and software needed to connect to it etc etc? setting home points and just general use for a newbie?
This is the other option the one in the middle is caused by the x or y cable being pulled lose very disappointing to wake up to. also hilarious to put on the employee of the year award
Anyway after watching a couple of videos and editing the gcode file to resume print on layer 61.53… it seems to have worked, other than a little bit of layer squish on the resumed layer… i think i have saved it!!!
The longest I have ever been without power was in a little village in the Blackforest for two days when all of the power lines connecting it to the grid (like 3 or 4) were simultaneously destroyed by falling trees that broke under the weight of the snow. Like, a 1:1000000 chance. Was pretty fun since nothing in the house really needs electricity and the heating is done by two tiled stoves, cooking can be done on a stove that runs with wood that simultaneously heated a stone bench in the other room for a warm behind… But that’s kind of off-topic (again). 
also hilarious to put on the employee of the year award 
that is cool to save a print 