Started yesterday morning, a few more hours and the printed parts will be ready, the core took 22.3 hours, can’t wait for the rest of the parts to arrive from the US.
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Beautiful.
All these pics and success stories have me psyched to upgrade my printer and start churning these out.
I’m stuck in Jamaica for another week though, boooooo
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Booohooo I am in Jamaica Boohoo… 
I am in Neuharlingersiel, you better not complain or I am going to come over there and whoop your ass. 
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Hello Doug,
I just bought the Flashforge Adventurer 5M Pro based on your you tube videos. i have never 3D printed or operated a CNC router. I studied up on the forums and You Tube for a couple weeks. I pulled the printer out of the box fired it up printed a benchy and two clips for the lowrider 4 rail everything worked perfect. then I printed a sideplate and it turned out perfect! I have been assembling parts and all are spot on. i am using Orca Slicer and transfering files with a usb drive. all the stuff i"ve read talks about issues with 3D printing and i havent had any trouble as a noob with the 5M Pro. Thanx for the recommendation. I believe I have put close to 30 hours on this printer in two and a half days.
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That’s great! If you discover any of the parts not looking square and straight, or not fitting together to make the machine straight and square, consider doing a check and calibration. To start off with that you can print a large cube (I think you can add it in OrcaSlicer by right-click and “add primitive shape” (?). Set it to print with thin walls (few perimeter walls) and low infill percent to speed it up. Let it cool on the plate to make sure you don’t warp it during removal. Use a precision square to check the cube for square, 90 degree angles on all sides in all directions. If it’s not good and square, you could then do the Calilantern deal that has been talked about on the forum.
That’s a heck of a good start!
Welcome to the V1 community.
I hope you’ll start a build thread for your machine and share with us as you make progress.
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Whoa, what. Are you stopping to sleep or something?
Hats off to you!! You are proof this forum is working! I participate in the hope is that maybe my failure and learning can help the next guy get a jump start and build on that pain and suffering. I don’t say this to take any credit for your success, just super happy you are finding value from information that has been shared by many who have shared positive and negative results in the hope to help.
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If you don’t mind AZA I am going to rearrange your post. Right now it looks like it takes 40hrs+ to build for most people. I want to get the more important answer up top.
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I’m in day 3 of trying to do klipper on my ender3.
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Anything we can do to help with klipper?
My build is on the slow road to completion. I just finished printing the major parts and will start assembly this weekend. OF course, it doesn’t help my time management skills by buying a new truck to work on…
Is there a specific hangup with your klipper install? Did you pull an example printer config for your board?
That belongs in its own topic I guess. 
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Today i switched to using kiauh on the install, found a really good series on youtube and as 5 minutes ago, it lives! Even the screen on the ender is working. I just need to plug in my camera to test that, and learn how to actually set up everything.
I had already been through much of this but still went from step 1 and ran through I think video 5. Easy to follow and most importantly, worked.
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So check this out and see if it helps:
Am maybe interpreting the responses differently.
Currently seems like time to build is way less than total time spent on other related steps people go through… Researching, deciding, sourcing, calibrating, etc…
Granted there’s just 11 responses currently.
Will be interesting to see how feedback is looking after a few weeks, and learn where friction/frustration points are.
So the OP wanted to know just build time (I think it took longest to print). Actual assembly time… does that include all the stuff I had to disassemble and reassemble because I did it wrong the first and second times? I probably assembled it over 1 week here and there. Had to find more parts, print an extra piece here and there. It took a long time to getting to cut struts.
Actual assembly I think you could do in a day if you had everything. All the bolts, all correct belt-lengths, nylocks pre tightened and removed… After you had reviewed all the assembly documentation. I think it would take a first time assembler at least two hours per major component: YZ min, YZ max, Core, struts/braces - cutting the tubing and mounting the z axis.
YZ min/max includes
- lubing the trolley bearings
- loose-mounting the rails
- mounting the table bearings to the parts and then to the plate
- mounting the z lead screw in the coupler
- Mounting the motor in the plate and then to the coupler and lead screw and threading the wire
- threading thy ymin endstop wires and soldring the switch
- mounting the y pulley on the motor and the motor in the plate mounting the XZ plate
- installing hidden nuts for the y belt idlers
- Feeding the belt
- installing the y belt idlers
…
no need to repeat it is in the assembly documentation. If you are reading the docs and assembling at the same time, it will take 2 weeks. If you are assembling after having read the document 2x and watched asa’s zoomtube video where you can change its speed and watch him do it, I imagine you would be much much faster.
I bet you could go from pile of parts to cranking out the crown in 2 full days… 16 hours. or maybe one 12 hour day if you are well prepared. If you only have hobby time an hour or two in the evening plan on 2 weeks.
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Wanna race, I bet I could do it much faster. I am really interested to see how long it takes JJ to build complete machines after he knocks a couple out.
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This seems long, but I would be interested to see…
I’ll try to remember to keep a close track if I ever get around to doing it.
For my LR3, I ordered the kit, so I definitely had everything
I know I spent less than 12 hours assembling, maybe half of that as a first time builder. I guess that depends on what the benchmark is. From pile of parts to functional, or pile of parts to 100% complete and not have to do anything else with wiring, etc. at all…
In that case, I’m still not finished 
Can this be a competition?!?!?
We can live stream it on YouTube.
@vicious1 at home, blindfolded with a stack of LR4 parts in front of him.
@Jonathjon at home, blindfolded with a similar stack in front of him.
Race to see who can build a machine, mount it to a table, and cut the V1 logo to within some % precision.
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My problem is staying 100% focused and not having any “squirrel” moments
I said I was going to assemble the YZ plates as they came off the printer. Got 2 sitting here with 0 parts in them LOL. But I have been knocking out other orders so its not like I’m not working at all lol.
A guy I work with just bought a kit, and is coming here this weekend so we can cut out all of the parts for the V1 Parametric table for him. So that’s going to slow me down even more lol. But I might put his ass to work so he can get some assembly experience before he puts his own together LOL
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