this week I finally tracked down the mechanical problem that was giving me infuriating extrusion issues — the clockwork 2 drive assembly shouldn’t be tight against the extruder housing; it should have a little room to rattle around and self-center on the filament and guidler shaft — and actually got green monster printing reliably.
thoughts about this printer in ongoing practical use so far:
- voron tap is cool but has been annoyingly prone to getting thrown off by plastic drool on the nozzle tip. I have to get in there with pliers to clean up the nozzle basically every print.
- if you’re looking for a printer that can do high-speed printing I would probably recommend against the E3D revo unless you’ve got the money to buy both a revo HF nozzle and the 60-watt heater core.
- it’s really a pain to get to the electronics bay on this thing. you definitely want both an ethernet and a USB keystone jack installed, and if you see yourself doing a lot of electronic tinkering I would recommend the trident over the 2.4.
otherwise it’s great! very close to the goal I had when I started this project, which was “build a printer I can hand a g-code file and walk away from secure in the knowledge that it will successfully summon an Object.”
