I am a complete beginner in the world of 3d printing.
I have a new Creality K1 Max printer, bought the other day.
The first few printed items were phenomenal. The 3D cube for calibration from the printer’s internal memory was printed perfectly, the measurements are 30mm plus minus some small measurement error.
However, when I tried to print some wheels, cylinders, etc., I was greeted by a cold shower.
My copy of the K! Max prints circles that are not completely round, and on the side of the circle opposite to the seam, some strange artifact appears - the outer wall of the object is deformed, which can be seen in my pictures.
I would add that I tried to reduce the tension of the belts. They were factory about 150 and 148Hz left and right. I turned both down to about 120 Hz and problem is now even a bit worse.
I used two apps, one Apple and one Android, both showed the same frequency, so I don’t think I made a mistake there.
Yes, it looks like something is wrong with the belt tension there. You tuned to 120Hz at what length? Like at which part of the belt did you measure it?
I am having the same issue. When printing a simple cylinder in spiral vase mode on orca slicer the cylinder has a flat spot follow by a bump on the left and on the right side. I think it is exactly on the x axis.
I also noticed the x axis manual movement to be way harder than the y axis movement. The y axis goes really easy and smooth while the x axis is hard to move and has a changing resistance while moving.
I have tried several things, like belt tensioning, squaring up the case and and and. Nothing is helping.
Many people did tell me that grease actually has the opposite affect since creality uses self-lubricating bronze bearings.
I think so there might still be something bent. But how to fix it? I also noticed that if I move the y axis completly to the front there is a 2mm gap on the right side, while there is none one the left side.
No it is not new. Had it for quite a while, maybe about 8 month or so. But I dont remember having this issues in the first place which means I dont know if I had them or if I had them not. I just noticed them about 3 months ago. In my hands it never fell down.
A mystery to me. … There are a lot of members here a lot more knowledgeable about 3D printing mechanics than us so hopefully they can help you out more…
I went to mechanical / machining middle / high school. 4 years on Lathe and Milling Machine. Then I went to Mechanical University…
Trust me, I know something about lubrication.
Actually, I had Theories of lubrication as a university class…
My K1 Max is well-lubricated. This issue doesn’t have anything to do with lubrication.
Thanks on the idea. New firmware was released today, so I upgraded, installed Creality Print, release V4.3.8.7058 from 28.04.2024, and tried again… nothing changed.
Somebody on Reddit gaves me idea to try to remove springs from tool head. Tried that and still the same.
I also really soak X axis with high quality oil for Juki Sewing machines… just to try… Really sad situation.
Printer really prints great. But I mostly bought it for printing circle objects!!!
Damn, you are going through exactly the same thing I am, I think we even tried the same stuff, I see that you returned yours and bought Bambu Lab. Where I live getting a printer from Bambu Lab is not an option as it is 5x more expensive as their creality counterparts, not really a competition, so please if anyone finds a solution to this problem post it here,
… There are a lot of members here a lot more knowledgeable about 3D printing mechanics than us so hopefully they can help you out more…
