Printing with Prusa Mendel RAMPS v1.4 Marlin and getting a serious slant…Any suggestions?
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oil the rods? up the current? check the stepper wires?
Ah true. This is my 3-4 calibration print. I have dialed in pretty well with x y z and e. But each print has a larger slope than the last. I will up the motor pots in this direction. Thanks!
check the set screws are tight on the pulleys!
good!, i use a drop of screw locking glue on the set screws. Just be sure to use the low torque glue.
and a flat on the stepper´s shaft also helps a lot.
I hate to admit how much software tinkering I did when I ran into this same problem…
I had a software glitch that I was sure was a hardware problem. Spent months swapping out parts. Nothing, upgraded firmware and back to normal, fml. hehe
I had this issue as well. Make sure your steps per mm are the same for your x and y axis eg x=80, y=80 not x=82, y=80.
Make sure your pulleys aren’t slipping. Check your bearings etc. do one thing at a time test it then change it again.
And one major problem I had was to much tension from the filament on the extruder. Make a spool holder with 608zz bearings and take as much tension off the extruder as possible. I wasted 8kmm of filament last night for this reason the spool bound up and my part had steps in it.
… Sorry didn’t read your last post. Glad you got it fixed.
No thank you! I am in the middle of a new print and looking good! was the slipping of the gear on the motor.
Ah, here’s a question have you had issues with ambient temp ? My house is to cold and have to build an enclosure to keep the prints from warping etc.
you’re dropping steps. check stepper motor settings. check for any binding on your x-axis, check for loose belt.
I’ve found that when this happened at higher speed but not at lower, it was stepper motor settings.
Also check X/Y jerk settings and turn them down from the default of 20mm/s – that’s speeds for a bowden tube. What can be happening is on a large move like the back corner, it’ll get fully up to speed, “jerk” the corner, and lose a step there. Does your print perimeter happen counterclockwise?
What’s a good jerk speed for the wades? I think I have mine at 15mms
Looks like gears slipping off the motor shafts due to set screws backing out.
Check them and use loctite to prevent them from wiggling loose again.
I had the same problem and it drove me nuts untill I figured it out.
Put marks on the gear to shaft alignment so of they slip you can visually tell moving forwarded
Had the same issue. It was To tight of a belt combined with too low current to the motors, set X to .50 (slightly high) and loosened the belt one click and it resolved.