I try to balance things between what I find enjoyable/ worth the effort, and what ends up becoming more of a recurring headache

I have a somewhat dated (but decently specd) NUC running Proxmox, and it’s the backbone of my home lab. No issues to date.

Yes, also confused by this.

Maybe Piper Net (Silicon Valley)

It’s a case for a Meshtastic node :) super fun project

Thank you, and no worries on the late reply. I’ll check all of this soon. You are right in there being a small gap there. It is normally tight, however I did loosen it a smidge because someone in a video mentioned that might add some forgiveness if one of the screws (or leadscrews as I’m learning) is not true.

Those screws are/ were dry though. I recently put a small amount of WD-40 onto a paper towel and cleaned them up a bit (maybe not the best choice vs a machine oil or something similar).

Thanks, I’ll give it some proper TLC soon and clean/ lube everything.

Gotcha, thank you!

Thanks so much for all the pointers! 1, 3, 4 I will give them a try. I’ll have to see how to disconnect the threaded rod from the motor so that I can roll it on a surface (I’ve done similar with arrows in the past).

For 2, the top is open, nothing was modified. This printer was bought used years ago (maybe 4-5 years ago) and used to print perfectly. It was not used for the last 3 or so, and has gone through several moves. When we unboxed it again, there were a few broken parts that we had to reprint (the upper stabilizers that go around the support rod and threaded rod, and the y axis motor mount in the back). So it’s not inconceivable to think one or both of the rods could have been bent as well.

Ah, it’s the part that the screws actually use to move the head up and down to which I was referring. It’s a couple black circles on the Prusa MK2.

Awesome, this will be my weekend project. Thanks so much!

Thank you, checking this now. I made a change I found on a video and made a new post here.

How did you relevel your gantry? From what I see, you can loosen the two things I pointed to in my new post.

It does seem like one of the screws it touching the side of the stabilizer at the top, and the other is perfectly straight and isn’t, so I might need to look into that. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Thank you!

Good point. I knew it had to be something systematic, but didn’t really know where to check from there. Here is the left side and here is the right.

Yeah, I guess I should say it’s not as bad as I initially thought. It’s not great, but I do see why they want some of those rules for companies that are using their firmware for profit without even changing the headers. Must be frustrating, but at the same time, Prusa just invested a ton into injection molding, and the MK4 is > $1000, so… I think a lot of these bad decisions are trickling down to the end user.

I’ll check that out, thanks!

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Those seem reasonable

Ahahahah. That’s hilarious 😂. Well that makes the choice easy, thanks.