Hey Chuck, just wanted to say your microcontroller books got me into electronics like 20 years ago. Just happen to come across your channel, didn't even know you were making YT content! Great stuff, still inspiring the masses, I see.
@CHEP I must say, seriously, your content probably (likely) *saves lives!* I can *_-totally-_* imagine someone becoming so depressed, and feeling utterly and irreversibly deficient in the brain pan department, but as hope dwindles away to vapor, and passion begins to slip from our hearts, we remember you! You're one of the few RUclipsrs within the broad technical and engineering community that I've got an immediately excellent visual association with, virtually all channels that provide content of a like nature make me incredibly angry, I think watching far less competent and technically skilled individuals trained my brain to associate anger, sadness and super edginess with the _others._ Thanks sir, TLDR; You are *AWESOME!*
Just wanted to say you are my friggin hero man - There's been more than once where I ran into an issue, and if it wasn't for your videos, I just plain wouldn't have found the solution I needed...This was one of them, as you had mentioned the "spring" issue with the bed, which allowed me to know this was what I needed...A total pain to correct, but finally close enough, that I "should" have a flat bed on the Ender 3 pro....Thanks again for your videos!
Hey @CHEP I don't think you mentioned it in this video, but I spent probably an hour tinkering with the left side of the X-axis bar, got it within .4mm of perfection, then put everything back together and adjusted the eccentric bolts to make sure it was tight. It was off by as much as FIVE MM afterward. I did this probably a dozen times, then finally decided to look at the right side - Lo and behold, two perfectly accessible screws that didn't require any disassembly. I did the same sort of adjustment you showed on the left side, on the right side instead and now it's within .3mm on both sides with the bolts where they should be. It may be worth trying to do the right side, with 0 disassembly, first! Just thought I'd give you (And anyone else who was struggling) a heads up.
Every time I have a problem that nobody on earth has, you seem to have the answer to it, and I’ve just realised your channel is the only one that has ever helped when I feel like throwing my printer out the window
I am about to throw my Ender 3 out of the window right now. Since I´ve had it it hasn´t printed anything just right. It messes up every single thing and I am unable to level the bed at all. I´ll give it one last chance to redeem itself because of this very video and if that doesn´t help, well... window it is.
I had a persistent problem getting my Ender 3 bed level. The normal level procedure typically ended up leaving one of my leveling screws falling off. So I completely re-built the frame, using foil shims to make everything completely square. Still had the problem. Built myself a 3-point level system. Still the same problem. I finally came across someone describing a similar problem who discovered their Y axis extrusion was twisted! I put a level on my built plate and moved the Y axis through its whole range, and sure enough the bubble shifted from left-of-center to right-of-center as it moved. I got myself a piece of bare black extrusion and cut/drilled/tapped it appropriately, and finally I have a perfectly level print bed! So, if the steps in this video still don't work, check that your Y axis rail is flat! If it's not, no amount of adjustment of the surface plane or the rest of the frame will keep the hot end level across the whole build plate. And it doesn't take a whole lot of twist to turn into being several mm off at the edges of your build plate.
For someone that has been wanting a 3D Printer for years but only now is in a position to get one, your videos have been enlightening for sure. I'm almost certain the Ender 3 Pro will be my first printer seeing as there are soooo many resources out there to make it even better than what people say it is in a stock config. Thank you for your part in making things easier for the new people coming into this cool hobby, I really appreciate it.
Mate, I got an Ender 3 just before xmas, and I was having this exact issue. Now I come to RUclips to chill for a bit, and find that you've uploaded a video on how to solve my exact problem not 2 hours previously? Are you a 3D printing guardian angel or something?
This guy really knows his stuff. My Ender 3 v2 was giving me endless problems with bed leveling and first layer issues and this video along with his other one on bed leveling fixed things right up. Thanks for the advice, you took a lot of stress out of the equation of this complex hobby.
@@FilamentFriday I am having same issues as Corey, but following your video, I see I am quite level & square overall, and the base is quite flat. After trying to level 4-5 times, then it seems okay, but then start to print, the clumping, and no laying of filament in areas (usually at the start). I stop , check the level, and it's way off again. At this point I am about ready to chuck it in the trash, and find another brand which does auto-leveling.
The nozzle will lift on the first layer to make room for you plastic. If it clumping then you need better adhesion. Maybe clean the bed with alcohol or soapy water. Sometimes one swipe of glue stick helps.
@@FilamentFriday The bed is literally a new one (the magnetic one), and I have done maybe one print on it. Also the printer stays in the optional insulated enclosure, so I know dust/dirt is not much of an issue. I did have a glass plate to use I got when I ordered it. Prints stopped sticking to it, and I tossed it to the side. Now I cannot find it so I went ahead and ordered a new one. I may also order that BLTouch for it. Thank you kindly for taking the time to respond.
@@FilamentFriday My new glass bed came in, and after 4-5 "leveling" tries, the level is much better, but not quite perfect like yours (also sticking to the glass bed). Looks like I will certainly be ordering the BLTouch kit. Thanks again!
You sir are a champion! I thought I was going mad with the bed height and the springs being different extenstions. Now I am confident that I can finally dial this in to be perfectly flat and square!!!! So thankful.
I just got my first printer, an ender 3 v2, while it worked right out the box (came bundled with a CR Touch auto tramming probe), your videos have been absolutely amazing for narrowing down all the issues I've had. Thank you for taking the extra time to make these lectures for us hobbyists out here.
CHEP comin in with the informational save again. Love the content, but this one in particular, I watched a couple different videos on that honestly made me rewatch because they made it seem so complicated, that I thought I must have been missing something. As always, Chuck comes in and levels the playing field with a direct, honest, and concise approach, logical explanation, and detailed visual of what he's talking about. Excellent work, as usual, sir. Proud to be a fan of your channel and your work. (p.s. I gave up on 3D printing because of issues with the Ender3 Pro, but this video has kind of made me get off the couch and start to tinker with it again)
@@FilamentFriday I had it running perfectly for about 3 months, was printing some Harry Potter wands from Thinigverse with great detail on them, but suddenly it all went wonky, and the printer would just turn to silly string after a few layers. Guessing I need to square it up. I was just thrown off because it had worked fine for weeks, beautiful CHEP cubes and projects haha, and out of nowhere one day, it turned crazy on me.
Oh my gosh! Even though this video is 4 years old it helped me so much! Every other video had me doing something completely different to try to fix this issue. This one WORKED! 🎉🎉🎉
Chuck, Thanks for the timely tip. My Ender3 has performed beautifully on PLA, TPU and PETG but I had issues getting the bed perfectly level. I even bought stronger springs which did help but not exactly what I wanted in bed leveling results. I performed your tip (it took 4 tries) and got the measurements within less than a half millimeter of each side so I was happy about that. I'll relevel the bed tonight to see if it helped. Thanks for a great tip.
Thank you, sir! My son's bed settings were completely weird, and it was surviving because of BL Touch. I took a measurement of it today, and the far end was 5mm lower than the Z screw end. Took it apart and squared it up. I noted two other things while I was doing this, I made sure I had the three wheels on the Z-screw end set so all three wheels were touching (they were not) and when I assembled it, the far end was not square, so I loosened the two screws that hold the wheel plate on that end, adjusted the eccentric so all three wheels were touching, then tightened the two screws that hold that plate. Now that far end is 0.5mm higher, but that is much better than it was, and the bed settings are much more sensible now. Thanks for the great video, it was a lot of help. It is too bad Creality didn't run those two screws on the drive end in an accessible manner. hopefully, I won't have to touch those for a while.
Thanks, CHuck! You saved my life with my Longer LK4 Pro, which comes to fail after 700 hours of printing. Follow most of your procedures, now I have fine prints! I put a helical spring lock washer with the first bolt of the X carriage bar to avoid a new looseness in it.
I had the same thing where those two screws made it extremely difficult to adjust the level of the beam. I ended up drilling a single hole that is maybe 5 inches from the top on the inboard groove, that lines up with one of the screws, and with it on the machine, was able to tighten and loosen it, and got it level that way
Thanks a lot for all your videos... I really appreciate your work and effort to make this hobby less stressful.... this video solved like 95% of my issues...
I haven't used my Ender 3 since the remodel to my apartment. It was fine before then but now I guess from moving it from room to room, the bed is all out of wack. I'm going to do this and hope to get it running soon. Thanks a lot and love your videos.
Last year, I had an issue where I would level the bed, and somehow it would immediately become unlevel with any movement. Simply touching the bed made it unlevel. I struggled finding the problem for quite some time. The culprit turned out to be an adjustment for the wheels of the bed. It is out of sight and out of mind. To test this, simply wiggle the bed to side to side. If it moves, you need to adjust that part.
Drilled one hole in the up right. Left on inside. Lock tight the outer one snug it up. Lower the gantry on something sitting on lower legs. Tightening gantry wheels then tighten the gantry screws
This looks like it'd be a good video to check out if you're getting any z-banding too. Those uprights and the gantry caused me some problems on taller prints before I rebuilt them like you did here.
Great video. I am glad someone is Showing how to get the printers square and parallel, Instead of using a spirit level, which probably is not very accurate, To set up a 3D printer. This is the kind of information the community needs. If you're printing a tower , and everything is not square, you will probably be printing a leaning tower instead, Even if you are using a auto lleveling sensor. I use a machinist square to square my printer. Combination squares generally are not normally square. Even the Sterrett combination square is not guaranteed to be Perfectly square. And it needs to be as close as you can get it.
Really helpful. I've been driving myself crazy with leveling mine, got a glass bed, thought it was warped, turns out the frame just isn't square. I still have the smallest dip on the front of my bed, might use some masking tape or something to bump it up a bit under the bed.
This is a great guide. I'll have to do this adjustment when my ABL sensor comes in. That will take care of any waprage (my bed is warped in the middle) and make the first layer perfect. The ABL sensor I bought is the EZABL.
I noticed that you clamped a square to ensure the Z-axis extrusions were square to the Y-axis base extrusions but didn’t not check that they were square to the lower extrusion that makes the X-axis frame beam. This is one thing that wasn’t covered in your video or three others I’ve seen from other content makers. On my printer while trying to adjust the wheel tension on the Z-axis I noticed that the roller assembly bases were not parallel to gantry extrusion causing a constant twisting force onto the Z-axis roller assemblies. To fix it I had to release the four screws at the top and the four on the bottom of the vertical extrusions, tighten the two screws on the roller carriage close to the power supply and then tighten the eight screws, this alone made my Z-Axis move up and down much better. Then I adjusted the wheel eccentrics and all was well.
I would recommend loosening and squaring the Y-rail also while you're doing all this. One of mine was printing un-square until i did this. And since you undid the side bolts on the lower crossbar, it has the potential to rock fore-aft, possibly introducing a slope in Y-axis so that needs to match level of foot rails/tabletop as well.
Hey Mike, thanks for a great tutorial. I am new to 3D printing and had terrible problems levelling the bed. I suspected the axis was wrong but wasn't sure so it was greaat to get the help. this video solved my problem on the ender 3 pro
After I built my printer, I could not get the bed level and ran into the issue you mentioned of the springs on one side being tight. Your instructions on how to adjust the x-axis bar are extremely helpful and I'm finally printing.
Thank you SOOO much for this, my ender 3 pro has not printed right since I got it, and this is why. The Left side prints fine, grips the bed nicely, but the right side is lumpy and reluctant to run smoothly, it even catches on the bumps of the previous layer and jumps over a bit, even tho I level the bed every print. the left front leveling knob has even fallen off mid print twice.. so frustrating. Now I have some idea where to start to fix it. Thank you.
Very nice, I greatly appreciate the helpful information and more if I needed it. I had this exact problem and was stumped at how to fix it, thanks to you I have my springs damn near same tension. (My fix took 1 try lol)Thank you now you are officially my youtube recommendation for others who need help on an ender 3/pro and I think I'm going to soon want my name on that list at the beginning of the video. A+ teacher/3D Printer
I put stronger springs in and also removed that strain relief from the lower left spring. another strain relief must be used that does not interfere with bed leveling. The bed level has not changed in weeks.
Chuck, you hit the nail on the head with this video! I had precisely this issue and was lucky enough to simply loosen the screws on the uprights, square everything up and it was fixed! I didn't have the issue with the top bar, so I dodged that bullet! Your videos are really helpful in general, but this one was spot on. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Thank you Chuck. I was chasing my tail thinking my bed was actually warped! Creality need to up their game in terms of instructions when building these things.
Nice display of some mechanical sympathy Chuck :) I suspect a lot of print quality problems are down to poor assembly on these. The instructions are fine if you have some experience of mechanical systems, but for a novice, there are many pitfalls. To be clear, that isn't a criticism of users who don't have the experience!
Great videos, great voice (easy to understand), great explanation of everything. I got a E3 pro, and I'm not kidding but the bed's max height is like 1/4" or so low from the nozzle. Impossible to get it close enough. Now I'll have to grab some spacer-washers from hardware store and put them under springs so I gain that extra space. Even for Chinese built, it was pretty accurate in most areas, which is why I found this a bit odd.
Hi Chuck, really love your videos I’ve been learning a lot from them. I’m having some issues with the extruder and I’m not sure why but I’ll try this first and then keep o trying
Another great video I had mine pretty well set up but I might just do a final Chuck check! I have some screw driver type allen keys that make regular use a lot more enjoyable, give them a try. Cheers Steve
Oh My Goodness! Thank you sir! I knew I rushed my assembly of the ender 3 v2, but I'm glad I watched this video. Today I did everything in this video several times until the caliper told me I was good to go. Did you hear the CR 10 Smart is coming out? I'm about to put something up for sale so I Can place my order. Hopefully you'll have one at release date so you can share the wisdom!. Stay blessed Mr Chep. I'm about to hit the Sub button and go lay down. P.s Ever in Alaska, I think it can get you a good tour guide.
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Hey Chuck, just wanted to say your microcontroller books got me into electronics like 20 years ago. Just happen to come across your channel, didn't even know you were making YT content! Great stuff, still inspiring the masses, I see.
Thanks. Glad I could help.
Concise, to the point - not everyone wants to spend 60+ minutes following an adjustment guide. Kudos.
I wish it was only 60 minutes, 4hours and 45 minutes it still won't print😡 I'm starting to lose my mind
Everytime I assume my printer is all good, CHEP comes up with a video and I've to re check my printer 😂
@CHEP I must say, seriously, your content probably (likely) *saves lives!* I can *_-totally-_* imagine someone becoming so depressed, and feeling utterly and irreversibly deficient in the brain pan department, but as hope dwindles away to vapor, and passion begins to slip from our hearts, we remember you! You're one of the few RUclipsrs within the broad technical and engineering community that I've got an immediately excellent visual association with, virtually all channels that provide content of a like nature make me incredibly angry, I think watching far less competent and technically skilled individuals trained my brain to associate anger, sadness and super edginess with the _others._ Thanks sir, TLDR; You are *AWESOME!*
Just wanted to say you are my friggin hero man - There's been more than once where I ran into an issue, and if it wasn't for your videos, I just plain wouldn't have found the solution I needed...This was one of them, as you had mentioned the "spring" issue with the bed, which allowed me to know this was what I needed...A total pain to correct, but finally close enough, that I "should" have a flat bed on the Ender 3 pro....Thanks again for your videos!
Hey @CHEP
I don't think you mentioned it in this video, but I spent probably an hour tinkering with the left side of the X-axis bar, got it within .4mm of perfection, then put everything back together and adjusted the eccentric bolts to make sure it was tight. It was off by as much as FIVE MM afterward.
I did this probably a dozen times, then finally decided to look at the right side - Lo and behold, two perfectly accessible screws that didn't require any disassembly. I did the same sort of adjustment you showed on the left side, on the right side instead and now it's within .3mm on both sides with the bolts where they should be. It may be worth trying to do the right side, with 0 disassembly, first!
Just thought I'd give you (And anyone else who was struggling) a heads up.
Every time I have a problem that nobody on earth has, you seem to have the answer to it, and I’ve just realised your channel is the only one that has ever helped when I feel like throwing my printer out the window
I am about to throw my Ender 3 out of the window right now. Since I´ve had it it hasn´t printed anything just right. It messes up every single thing and I am unable to level the bed at all. I´ll give it one last chance to redeem itself because of this very video and if that doesn´t help, well... window it is.
Silicone spacers instead of the springs under the bed
I had a persistent problem getting my Ender 3 bed level. The normal level procedure typically ended up leaving one of my leveling screws falling off. So I completely re-built the frame, using foil shims to make everything completely square. Still had the problem. Built myself a 3-point level system. Still the same problem. I finally came across someone describing a similar problem who discovered their Y axis extrusion was twisted! I put a level on my built plate and moved the Y axis through its whole range, and sure enough the bubble shifted from left-of-center to right-of-center as it moved. I got myself a piece of bare black extrusion and cut/drilled/tapped it appropriately, and finally I have a perfectly level print bed!
So, if the steps in this video still don't work, check that your Y axis rail is flat! If it's not, no amount of adjustment of the surface plane or the rest of the frame will keep the hot end level across the whole build plate. And it doesn't take a whole lot of twist to turn into being several mm off at the edges of your build plate.
For someone that has been wanting a 3D Printer for years but only now is in a position to get one, your videos have been enlightening for sure. I'm almost certain the Ender 3 Pro will be my first printer seeing as there are soooo many resources out there to make it even better than what people say it is in a stock config. Thank you for your part in making things easier for the new people coming into this cool hobby, I really appreciate it.
Mate, I got an Ender 3 just before xmas, and I was having this exact issue.
Now I come to RUclips to chill for a bit, and find that you've uploaded a video on how to solve my exact problem not 2 hours previously?
Are you a 3D printing guardian angel or something?
This guy really knows his stuff. My Ender 3 v2 was giving me endless problems with bed leveling and first layer issues and this video along with his other one on bed leveling fixed things right up. Thanks for the advice, you took a lot of stress out of the equation of this complex hobby.
Glad to help
@@FilamentFriday I am having same issues as Corey, but following your video, I see I am quite level & square overall, and the base is quite flat. After trying to level 4-5 times, then it seems okay, but then start to print, the clumping, and no laying of filament in areas (usually at the start). I stop , check the level, and it's way off again. At this point I am about ready to chuck it in the trash, and find another brand which does auto-leveling.
The nozzle will lift on the first layer to make room for you plastic. If it clumping then you need better adhesion. Maybe clean the bed with alcohol or soapy water. Sometimes one swipe of glue stick helps.
@@FilamentFriday The bed is literally a new one (the magnetic one), and I have done maybe one print on it. Also the printer stays in the optional insulated enclosure, so I know dust/dirt is not much of an issue. I did have a glass plate to use I got when I ordered it. Prints stopped sticking to it, and I tossed it to the side. Now I cannot find it so I went ahead and ordered a new one. I may also order that BLTouch for it. Thank you kindly for taking the time to respond.
@@FilamentFriday My new glass bed came in, and after 4-5 "leveling" tries, the level is much better, but not quite perfect like yours (also sticking to the glass bed). Looks like I will certainly be ordering the BLTouch kit. Thanks again!
You sir are a champion! I thought I was going mad with the bed height and the springs being different extenstions. Now I am confident that I can finally dial this in to be perfectly flat and square!!!! So thankful.
Finally someone showing how to correctly level the X gantry. I dd this to my CR-10s Pro when setting it up a couple months ago. Well done Chep!
I just got my first printer, an ender 3 v2, while it worked right out the box (came bundled with a CR Touch auto tramming probe), your videos have been absolutely amazing for narrowing down all the issues I've had. Thank you for taking the extra time to make these lectures for us hobbyists out here.
CHEP comin in with the informational save again. Love the content, but this one in particular, I watched a couple different videos on that honestly made me rewatch because they made it seem so complicated, that I thought I must have been missing something. As always, Chuck comes in and levels the playing field with a direct, honest, and concise approach, logical explanation, and detailed visual of what he's talking about.
Excellent work, as usual, sir. Proud to be a fan of your channel and your work.
(p.s. I gave up on 3D printing because of issues with the Ender3 Pro, but this video has kind of made me get off the couch and start to tinker with it again)
Don’t quit. It’s too much fun once you get it setup.
@@FilamentFriday I had it running perfectly for about 3 months, was printing some Harry Potter wands from Thinigverse with great detail on them, but suddenly it all went wonky, and the printer would just turn to silly string after a few layers. Guessing I need to square it up. I was just thrown off because it had worked fine for weeks, beautiful CHEP cubes and projects haha, and out of nowhere one day, it turned crazy on me.
Chuck I do like your videos the best part of them it is that you really love what you do and you transmit that in your videos; keep the goob job up !
Oh my gosh! Even though this video is 4 years old it helped me so much! Every other video had me doing something completely different to try to fix this issue. This one WORKED! 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks
Chuck, Thanks for the timely tip. My Ender3 has performed beautifully on PLA, TPU and PETG but I had issues getting the bed perfectly level. I even bought stronger springs which did help but not exactly what I wanted in bed leveling results.
I performed your tip (it took 4 tries) and got the measurements within less than a half millimeter of each side so I was happy about that. I'll relevel the bed tonight to see if it helped.
Thanks for a great tip.
Thank you, sir! My son's bed settings were completely weird, and it was surviving because of BL Touch. I took a measurement of it today, and the far end was 5mm lower than the Z screw end. Took it apart and squared it up. I noted two other things while I was doing this, I made sure I had the three wheels on the Z-screw end set so all three wheels were touching (they were not) and when I assembled it, the far end was not square, so I loosened the two screws that hold the wheel plate on that end, adjusted the eccentric so all three wheels were touching, then tightened the two screws that hold that plate. Now that far end is 0.5mm higher, but that is much better than it was, and the bed settings are much more sensible now.
Thanks for the great video, it was a lot of help.
It is too bad Creality didn't run those two screws on the drive end in an accessible manner. hopefully, I won't have to touch those for a while.
Thanks, CHuck! You saved my life with my Longer LK4 Pro, which comes to fail after 700 hours of printing. Follow most of your procedures, now I have fine prints! I put a helical spring lock washer with the first bolt of the X carriage bar to avoid a new looseness in it.
I took the shortcut/frustration approach. Hold the threaded rod side and gently pull up on the other side to match the bed. Works like a charm!
I had the same thing where those two screws made it extremely difficult to adjust the level of the beam. I ended up drilling a single hole that is maybe 5 inches from the top on the inboard groove, that lines up with one of the screws, and with it on the machine, was able to tighten and loosen it, and got it level that way
Great simple straight to the point commentary - I like it! hanks
Some really good pointers in here Chuck for not just the Ender but any printer that shares the same working geometry.
aw 2 years later this video is so much helpfull, thank you chep 4 your knowledge.
You saved my sanity with this, thanks. I thought I was losing my mind since prints worked, but it was way out of level all the time.
Fantastic, man! Thanks for the tips! 😃
Dude, I'm a 3D printer virgin and you just saved me loads of trouble and hours of headaches within the first 3 minutes of this video. Thanks
I'd also check with a trusted spirit level that I wasn't setting this up on a warped table top.
That's a great idea. You'd want your working surface to be as level as can be.
Hey thanks for the tips I will try on my Ender 3 you’ve helped me so much on my printing journey
This video came just in time! I was really scratching my head about why I was having one side tightened way more than the others.
Creality should put this video on the sd card with the instruction to assembling. TOP
You have helped me out so much this year setting up my Ender 3 Pro I just want to say thank you 🙏
Thanks a lot for all your videos... I really appreciate your work and effort to make this hobby less stressful.... this video solved like 95% of my issues...
I haven't used my Ender 3 since the remodel to my apartment. It was fine before then but now I guess from moving it from room to room, the bed is all out of wack. I'm going to do this and hope to get it running soon. Thanks a lot and love your videos.
Last year, I had an issue where I would level the bed, and somehow it would immediately become unlevel with any movement. Simply touching the bed made it unlevel. I struggled finding the problem for quite some time. The culprit turned out to be an adjustment for the wheels of the bed. It is out of sight and out of mind. To test this, simply wiggle the bed to side to side. If it moves, you need to adjust that part.
Fixed a long term issue! Thanks!
This video saved me, I was about to punt kick my printer to the garbage
did no one else notice the piercing high pitch noise throughout the whole vid? had to turn volume down and use captions
Ultimate video bro.
U pointed the solution for all the type of problems and trics 🥳
Thanks a lot🔥
Great video, the ultimate solution anyone will ever need for these enders.
Hi CHEP, there is something wrong with your microphone. There is a pretty loud
high frequency of 16kHz.
This drives me crazy! :D
Is it throughout the video or only sections?
@@FilamentFriday only on the parts where you're behind the desk talking.
Drilled one hole in the up right. Left on inside. Lock tight the outer one snug it up. Lower the gantry on something sitting on lower legs. Tightening gantry wheels then tighten the gantry screws
Perfect timing, I need to do a yearly maintenance cycle on my Ender, I'll put these checks to good use.
This looks like it'd be a good video to check out if you're getting any z-banding too. Those uprights and the gantry caused me some problems on taller prints before I rebuilt them like you did here.
3 washers under each spring to add tension. Done.
Great video. I am glad someone is Showing how to get the printers square and parallel, Instead of using a spirit level, which probably is not very accurate, To set up a 3D printer. This is the kind of information the community needs. If you're printing a tower , and everything is not square, you will probably be printing a leaning tower instead, Even if you are using a auto lleveling sensor.
I use a machinist square to square my printer. Combination squares generally are not normally square. Even the Sterrett combination square is not guaranteed to be Perfectly square. And it needs to be as close as you can get it.
Not sure if it's a stepper motor in the background or something else but there is a really loud high pitch sound in the video.
There’s a really high pitched noise in the audio and it’s driving me nuts!
The best explanation.
Thanks much for this video - really helped me find out why I had to crank down so hard on the right-side bed levellers. Great content!
Really helpful. I've been driving myself crazy with leveling mine, got a glass bed, thought it was warped, turns out the frame just isn't square. I still have the smallest dip on the front of my bed, might use some masking tape or something to bump it up a bit under the bed.
Clamp a square to the upright. Nice. Good tip. :)
Thank you for your help. Literally have been struggling for like a year.
This is a great guide. I'll have to do this adjustment when my ABL sensor comes in. That will take care of any waprage (my bed is warped in the middle) and make the first layer perfect. The ABL sensor I bought is the EZABL.
I noticed that you clamped a square to ensure the Z-axis extrusions were square to the Y-axis base extrusions but didn’t not check that they were square to the lower extrusion that makes the X-axis frame beam. This is one thing that wasn’t covered in your video or three others I’ve seen from other content makers. On my printer while trying to adjust the wheel tension on the Z-axis I noticed that the roller assembly bases were not parallel to gantry extrusion causing a constant twisting force onto the Z-axis roller assemblies. To fix it I had to release the four screws at the top and the four on the bottom of the vertical extrusions, tighten the two screws on the roller carriage close to the power supply and then tighten the eight screws, this alone made my Z-Axis move up and down much better. Then I adjusted the wheel eccentrics and all was well.
Love your videos , always great tips . Thanks
I would recommend loosening and squaring the Y-rail also while you're doing all this. One of mine was printing un-square until i did this. And since you undid the side bolts on the lower crossbar, it has the potential to rock fore-aft, possibly introducing a slope in Y-axis so that needs to match level of foot rails/tabletop as well.
Hey Mike, thanks for a great tutorial. I am new to 3D printing and had terrible problems levelling the bed. I suspected the axis was wrong but wasn't sure so it was greaat to get the help. this video solved my problem on the ender 3 pro
as ALWAYS.
an amazing video. ...awesome work. 👏
Thanks as always Chep!
Thanks for this great Tutorial, why did i find this video just now, not yesterday ;)
Funny thing is the old (and cheaper) C-10's didn't have this issue.
Great vids Chep, your channel is very helpful. Thanks
After I built my printer, I could not get the bed level and ran into the issue you mentioned of the springs on one side being tight. Your instructions on how to adjust the x-axis bar are extremely helpful and I'm finally printing.
Thanks Chuck!! just did this to mine all good now
Thank you very much, this fixed my uneven spring issue! I was beginning to think this was normal on an Ender 3 haha.
Great instructional video! Solved my bed leveling issues...Thank you!!!!
Happy new year and thanks, great video.
Thank you SOOO much for this, my ender 3 pro has not printed right since I got it, and this is why.
The Left side prints fine, grips the bed nicely, but the right side is lumpy and reluctant to run smoothly, it even catches on the bumps of the previous layer and jumps over a bit, even tho I level the bed every print. the left front leveling knob has even fallen off mid print twice.. so frustrating.
Now I have some idea where to start to fix it.
Thank you.
Mine is similar, with the back left having to be almost 100% tight, while the bottom right is practically falling off.
@@hexaspark I'll add that to the list of things to do when I get my new bowden tube in. Thanks for the suggestion.
Everything I needed to know in one video! Thank you!
i just want to say that the threaded rod dropped like butter for me
This video was incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!
Very nice, I greatly appreciate the helpful information and more if I needed it. I had this exact problem and was stumped at how to fix it, thanks to you I have my springs damn near same tension. (My fix took 1 try lol)Thank you now you are officially my youtube recommendation for others who need help on an ender 3/pro and I think I'm going to soon want my name on that list at the beginning of the video. A+ teacher/3D Printer
Awesome video! I was trying to find someone going over how to adjust the x gantry and this will help a lot. Thanks!
Great info, solved my problem and the machine is printing great. Thanks a lot!
I put stronger springs in and also removed that strain relief from the lower left spring. another strain relief must be used that does not interfere with bed leveling. The bed level has not changed in weeks.
Thank you so much!
This solved my bed leveling problem on my ender 3 max
Chuck, you hit the nail on the head with this video! I had precisely this issue and was lucky enough to simply loosen the screws on the uprights, square everything up and it was fixed! I didn't have the issue with the top bar, so I dodged that bullet! Your videos are really helpful in general, but this one was spot on. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Thank you Chuck. I was chasing my tail thinking my bed was actually warped! Creality need to up their game in terms of instructions when building these things.
Thanks for this.
Nice display of some mechanical sympathy Chuck :) I suspect a lot of print quality problems are down to poor assembly on these. The instructions are fine if you have some experience of mechanical systems, but for a novice, there are many pitfalls. To be clear, that isn't a criticism of users who don't have the experience!
hey for some reason you have a really high pitched whine in this video. try using an eq to cut off the really high end
yes, my head hurts after a minute of listening to it
Great tips Chuck, thanks/ .
after screaming for months that my printer sucks it turns out i sucked
When treading the Z axis lead screw back in, did anyone else notice it sounded as if it was crunching sand in the lead screw bearing?
I did for sure
Great videos, great voice (easy to understand), great explanation of everything.
I got a E3 pro, and I'm not kidding but the bed's max height is like 1/4" or so low from the nozzle. Impossible to get it close enough. Now I'll have to grab some spacer-washers from hardware store and put them under springs so I gain that extra space.
Even for Chinese built, it was pretty accurate in most areas, which is why I found this a bit odd.
Lower the Z stop switch.
@@FilamentFriday Thanks for quick reply.
I'll check that tomorrow and see if it has room for lowering.
I didn't think about that.
Every Ender 3 group on Facebook should pin this video (and others from here) to their page for everyone.
Great vid as always.
thank you for all of your videos
Or thanks for all the hard work you put into the videos I should say
Hi Chuck, really love your videos I’ve been learning a lot from them. I’m having some issues with the extruder and I’m not sure why but I’ll try this first and then keep o trying
Thanks CHEP,. Excelent vídeo!
great info thanks!
Another great video I had mine pretty well set up but I might just do a final Chuck check! I have some screw driver type allen keys that make regular use a lot more enjoyable, give them a try. Cheers Steve
philip you legend
There is a really high pitch noise in the background and it's hurting my ears but nice video
It's used to keep kids away. Us old guys can't hear it.
@@stevensexton5801 LOL, yeah I was like "what noise?"
@@stevensexton5801 speak for yourself, not everyone loses the ability to hear higher frequencies with age.
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Oh My Goodness! Thank you sir! I knew I rushed my assembly of the ender 3 v2, but I'm glad I watched this video. Today I did everything in this video several times until the caliper told me I was good to go. Did you hear the CR 10 Smart is coming out? I'm about to put something up for sale so I Can place my order. Hopefully you'll have one at release date so you can share the wisdom!. Stay blessed Mr Chep. I'm about to hit the Sub button and go lay down.
P.s Ever in Alaska, I think it can get you a good tour guide.
I’m trying to get one.
Great tips, thank you. One of mine wobbles, so I'll be making this adjustment soon.
4:50 The X axis have two eccentric nuts, one on each side.