On behalf of my manager, I was wondering if this is a common repair issue. We’re setting up his 3D printer for bring your child to work day to print little houses to give to the kids. I can’t find one that’s easy and fast to print so I’m going to CAD design my own. But he has this Ender 3 V2. I’m a Bambu labs guy so this thing is like wow! What a load of manual labor to get it prepared to print.
First and foremost I had to print a extruder Arm because the OEM one broke apart in tiny pieces. So I found one that looks promising to last a while.
My manager spent time to manually level the print bed. Then we tried to print a Benchy. And the extruder was too close to the print bed.
I tried to increase the Z offset and I went up to +4.00 and no change.
I was playing with the digital dial and going through the settings and YouTube videos on how to set it up for your first print and I discovered that when selecting the Z axis move up and down +10.00 that it will move up, but when turning the dial counter clockwise it does not move the z Axis extruder down. It only goes up.
Now I can turn off the motors and manually move the Z axis by turning the z screw but as soon as I set the home it immediately goes to +10.00
For the life of me I cannot figure out how to digitally move the Z axis down and tune the offset.
So I think something is broken. It might be a malfunctioning limit switch, a binding lead screw, or a loose Z coupler.
I don’t k ow much about this printer and I can’t find much on the issue.
So I wanted to ask the community what you guys thought.