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Probe is gone! And, its for sure not the wires. Only at the location where are the magnets located under the heated bed, the probe reacts. Or, if i hold iron direct under the sensor. Saw it early enough this time, no other impact mark in the board. @Makertech I asked already before, what parts are counted under the warranty? Since you guys seems not really interested in providing quality, im thinking about buying my second printer from another producer.

Hi, I can't print on the Axis and 'm running out of ideas what else to try. While I'm far from being a pro, I'm not new to 3D printing and I have another printer running paralell. I managed to assemble the Axis wthout too many problems. I did all the tests and calibrations in Stage 9 including Auto-Levelling and Z-Offset. All looks pretty well set, nozzle close to surface. I have Cura 4.71 (due to the other printer) and added the Makertech settings (with version change as described in another post in this forum). I sliced Benchy as described in Stage 10, Axis connected via USB/pronterface. When I send the printhead to the home position, it still looks goood, but as soon as I start the print, the nozzle visibly goes to distance to the surface. It tries to print the first layer into the air. M114 reports position Z.24. I guess the problem is somewhere in the Cura settings, but I can't find anything changing it. (sliced several times with different settings. repeated auto-leveing and lots of Z-Offset adjustments) Anyone another idea, please?

It took several mods and a lot of bed leveling and tweaking .. but check it out: So, there's the x-axis upgrade ... where I took some spare T-track and mounted it to the bottom of the platform. There's the z-axis axis upgrade which is a linear guide and two bearing carriages. Some re-aligning of the belts (most notably on the y-axis). I add lights ... pretty cool ... didn't affect quality at all though. But the one attached to the print head did seem to quiet the fan for some reason. Oh, I found if you only have one extruder, you can plug the hotend fan into the second extrude connecter, make a few changes in marlin config and make it so it only turns on when it's over so many degrees C (set mine to 80*C). I found the cheap PLA that came with it prints better at 185 *C. Any hotter and it starts to bubble and string or under-extrude. I got a little carried away with the infill on this print. It took 10 hours and 7 minutes to print. Eventually I'll get to some bigger stuff I want to print, just to see if I can actually fill the entire build space. This is a small spool. It's great for the Axis since it has such a flimsy spool holder. 1kg is way too much, so this lets me keep small amounts of all filament I got and vacuum-seal the rest. The print came out surprisingly good. Although, the fist layer was little iffy. The second layer made up for it though.