• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    The concept of the e-leveler is perfectly valid, I’ve used both a BLtouch and a dial indicator to basically do the same trimming setup multiple times, it’s just hilarious how visibly old school and bare bones he designed it to be and then he dares to ask $25 for one when you could literally cobble one together from parts for less than a dollar in five minutes.

    It should have been a funny perk on like a PCB business card or ruler you’d get from him, and not product he actually tries to sell. Or at best, a kit costing barely more than the postage.

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      9 months ago

      You can find a piece of paper in your house anywhere basically for free. They’re held to a pretty tight 0.08mm thickness, and given how little leveling actually plays a part in a successful print, it really is a swindle.

      I run a 3D printer repair shop in Central Florida, and 99/100, a customers “leveling issue” is a hotend flow issue (broken idler arm, loose drive gear), or a machine assembly issue instead (loose/floaty bed, x gantry, x carriage, etc).

      In most cases, I tram by eye - as there is no need to be 0.01mm accurate across a 230mm bed on a machine that cost $100.