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Part of my effort yesterday with the parts I printed was to make bed leveling a little easier. The corner braces I made to hold the glass on the heat bed are held in place with an M3 nut. I am not using the spring. The thumbwheels are above and below the heat bed; you loosen both, then use the top one to push the bed up or the lower one to pull it down. To level the bed, I left the glass in place and used a piece of paper to set the distance between the nozzle and glass.
This photo is kinda fuzzy but I hope you get the idea. It also shows the bracket I made to hold the glass, allowing the glass to be slightly proud of the bracket - much better than binder clips.
This is the first pass of a level testing print. I didn't try to improve it.
When I got all the new parts in place and tried to connect to the printer via Octoprint, I kept getting a communication error and it would abort. It sounded like a real issue but I couldn't trace the problem to either board directly. After pulling both SD cards and checking them on my desktop, I stood there looking at the machine waiting for it to tell me something. Then, I finally noticed I had not plugged the heat bed cable back into the heat bed! Note to self: don't be so stupid next time!!!
This photo is kinda fuzzy but I hope you get the idea. It also shows the bracket I made to hold the glass, allowing the glass to be slightly proud of the bracket - much better than binder clips.
This is the first pass of a level testing print. I didn't try to improve it.
When I got all the new parts in place and tried to connect to the printer via Octoprint, I kept getting a communication error and it would abort. It sounded like a real issue but I couldn't trace the problem to either board directly. After pulling both SD cards and checking them on my desktop, I stood there looking at the machine waiting for it to tell me something. Then, I finally noticed I had not plugged the heat bed cable back into the heat bed! Note to self: don't be so stupid next time!!!