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.
hmm ... is this one any better quality?
Congratulations. You must have a different printer..well maybe it is a different printer with your modifications ;-). Someone should release a AXIS v2 with all those improvements. Something like the i3 bear upgrade :D.