Wanhao D9 – Bed leveling -do this to make it work!

 

Someone on facebook suggested that the stock wanhao Firmware doesn’t handle leveling propertly. They’re right

Check out……..

https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?415,789128

 

given the 1000’s of people having issues getting the D9 to print properly, there does seem to be something fundamentally wrong with the printer….

 

In your Cura / startup script, find G28

3D Printing – Upgrades – Here we go again!

Haven’t even fully assembled the thing yet and I discover there are many upgrades

https://all3dp.com/1/20-must-creality-ender-3-upgrades-mods/

https://www.thingiverse.com/

many very cheap!, A few expensive, many quick, a few slower…..

I do however own a few Ikea Lack Tables

and being a little dissapointed that my D9 was just too big to fit inside, I’m probbaly going to knock up a small stacker with my 3020 and ender 3! ………..when i’ll actually use all this crap for making stuff for the kids to play with, who knows!, still, the ‘possibilities’ are keeping me sane right now!

 

More 3D printing…New toy – Creality Ender 3

Well, after endless weeks of frustration with the D9 and extrusion issues, I’ve gone and done a few things

Purchased a silly amount of ‘spare parts’ at ridiculous prices from random chinese websites – it’s like Christmas! every day!, there’s steady stream of small boxes and packages arriving. I’ll have enough bits to build a couple of spare printers soon…….

Revisiting the 3020 CNC & General musings

Been a few months of non-tinkering really, Just had a heck of a time getting anything useful printing in the D9………..Finally solved that issue – combination of badly cut PTFE tube and poorly machined throat caused major under extrusion and, well, that combined with two kids, a wife working away often meant zero time to actually tinker……

Anyways, in that ‘why the hell shouldn’t I go buy something that ‘just works’..’

I saw the Snapmaker 2 on kickstarter and got the old braincells working,

I have at home currently several devices that are taking a bunch of space

• 3020T CNC
• Small 500mw laser – kinda like the one in the link
• KNK Zing – large format Vinyl cutter
• Wanhao D9 – 3d printer

So after seeing the kickstarter I Decided to try to sell the 3020 on Facebook marketplace 

After several dozen people “interested” and several hundred messages, I now fear for the future of the human race having any semblance of collective intelligence  and have decided to keep the 3020T

Revisiting my earlier adventures, The CNC, being a parallel port version won’t run on windows 10, nor will that little dongle thingy I purchased

So, I purchased a new little dongle thingy –

It’s a rather clever little GRBL shield Which doesn’t have any Driver chips bulit in! it just wiggles the relevant data lines of the DB25 port in the back of the CNC controller…..

It’s alive again!……now back to the fun of calibration and figuring just how to use it, whilst allocating my decreasing waking hours to having fun tinkering…….

Ramble over,