Aloha from Hawaii
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:52 pm
Introducing myself as new owner and operator of Rostock Max V2. Got the kit a couple months ago, so there is an even newer version now. I am an electronics engineer and opening that box was one of the most intimidating experiences ever, intense excitement mixed with intense fear. I have 3 years hands-on with 3D print plastic and had done some repairs before. I wanted to post because the manual is obviously a work of love and a great style for modern day technical writing. I just followed it step by step, even though it was daunting. I took care to double check everything but did end up with plates being upside down, not understanding some of the wiring descriptions but caught before progressing too far. It took me 4 weeks of a few hours per day to get it all assembled and calibrated. Everything was going good, especially recently thanks to the new curvature calbration macro. I tried to test the limits by trying to print a 20+ hour edge of limits build without being able to watch it overnight. As expected, disaster. The head got trapped beyond the wall limit and kept trying to move back to center. This caused the X-arm to pop off and who knows how many hours it spent rubbing the extruder head against the build wall but it shredded one resistor and the thermistor was yanked out and all messed up. The good thing about the plastic arms is they just pop off with too much resistance. Anyway, long story short, ended up with the E3D V6, wow, so nice. The photo is before the new E3D V6. It also needed assembly but the assembly is so much easier and cleaner than the stock Bowden that comes with the Max. The E3D V6 also needs a new mount 3D printed, still have a Solidoodle 3 and did it on that. My main direction is rapid prototyping, also several other projects. Just another talk-story about Max V2.
