Assembling Your Christmas Printer Kits
Everyone one who got a Core One printer kit for Christmas (or otherwise) before you embark on assembling the belt system, do yourself a favor, study very carefully the photos in the assembly guide and read all of the user side comments. Pay very close attention to the orientation of the parts. Do not second guess the photos... yes... the teeth of the belt are supposed to be in contact the smooth idler pulleys. Before you tighten the belts, read this section many times: Adjusting belt tension until you have it memorized. Next when inserting nozzle and heatblock into the heat sink make sure it is fully inserted as in this photo and that the thumbscrews are tight:
Failure to heed this advice will cause you to post here "Why is my printer not working"
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Agree - sometimes it's the smallest thing you overlook, that snowballs and has a knock on effect elsewhere, and causes an entire printer malfunction!
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But that's like throwing peas at the wall! Do you think these "Christmas experts" will follow your advice? Not at all, because they are the ones who don't have to follow any advice, because they are the "called ones"! And then here we have them shouting "Help, help", instead of realizing that Prusa produced tens of thousands of these kits and the more sensible ones assembled them without any problems And so that instead of writing heartbreaking posts, they would think about themselves, go through the assembly instructions again and look for their own mistakes. And the Prusa instructions are written in such a way that even a trained monkey can assemble the printer according to them. Well, that's all from me, we have more than enough experience with them here.
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And one more thing. If I start talking about the "experts" here in a slightly harsher tone, a lot of defenders of these "experts" will come running to me and start explaining to me that they are really "poor and unfortunate people" and I am the biggest villain! For God's sake, stop with the "hyper-correctness" and start calling things by their real names! I am a moderator on another forum that has nothing to do with this, and I can tell you only one thing: Of course, I do not use any vulgar or vulgar expressions there, but it has never happened to me that anyone would protest against slightly harsher expressions. And I do not attack anyone for slightly harsher expressions towards other users. Of course, everything has its limits and if there are vulgar and dishonorable posts, the person who used them is warned and the post is deleted. And if the user in question does not want to give up such expressions that I talked about, I will ban them without mercy and that's it. And if he doesn't like it, I'll ask the admin to delete the account. And believe me, the admin will comply. Howgh, I'm done!
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Um... OK...
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IMO, Prusa's instructions are very good. Not flawlessly perfect, but if you carefully follow them and use a bit of common sense, your printer has a good chance of working correctly right from the start. I put a laptop with a big screen right next to my assembly bench and used the online instructions so I could zoom in on the photos. I needed to do that multiple times to be sure I had things right. You'd have to be a serious masochist to do it with a phone. Not everybody has the same level of experience with electromechanical assemblies, so hopefully the people here will have some patience with the less experienced and less focused. My guess is these things are being built by teenagers to old men (me) and everybody in-between.