What are you doing for preventive maintenance?
My new as of June Prusa is 'dialed in' and working great, I'm starting to do overnight and multi-day prints on a regular basis that are starting to rack up the run time on the printer.
Occasionally I check the screws and nuts for tightness and make sure the rods are clean.
I'm curious what the rest of your are doing for preventive maintenance? Is there anything to do as far as lubrication? belt tensions?
Thanks for any info
Robert
Robert B.
Re: What are you doing for preventive maintenance?
Humm. I don't do a lot; occasionally I clean the bed, but that's about it.
I tend to wait for a problem to happen before I fix anything that isn't broken.
Peter
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Re: What are you doing for preventive maintenance?
The area where the extruder stepper grabs the filament to feed into the hottend can get dirty so I occasionally vacuum that out. Also making sure little hairs aren't collecting on the Z axis threads.
I run a few inches of "cleaner filament" through the head every once in a while - but I have no actual evidence this does anything (but I have not had clogging issues).
Lubricant on the rods is controversial, you should search this forum for pros and cons and types.
My main maintenance activity is replacing empty rolls of filament 😀
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Re: What are you doing for preventive maintenance?
I was hoping I would hear answers like these 😀 . I thought I might pick up a length of belt just in case, otherwise it seems like a workhorse.
Robert B.
Re: What are you doing for preventive maintenance?
Same here.
Only bed cleaning and making sure the printer is not completely covered in dust.
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Re: What are you doing for preventive maintenance?
Preventative maintenance = keeping my paws of it while it's working fine. 😀
Re: What are you doing for preventive maintenance?
Actually, I've done something today that may fall into the prevention category: I placed the LCD screen (it is outside of the box with the printer) onto a grounded static prevention mat, and I try to remember to touch that before touching the LCD housing. There have been several reports about sudden death of the electronics due to electro-static zapping when touching the LCD housing. And the dry WInter westerly winds are blowing at my place at the moment, high risk times for static build-up.
How about printing the LCD housing out of something that is electrically conductive, and then grounding it? Would that protect against static zapping?
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Conductive filament for the lcd case, may help. Especially if it is electrrically bondex to the power supply casing.
Regards Joan
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