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Owning a delta printer can be a lot of fun. You should take pride when using your printer to create things for your household, family, and friends. Whether you are creating new gadgets or gifts, making parts to fix things around the house, the enjoyment factor is quite high. However, the enjoyment will fade a bit if your printer starts underperforming or breaking. Fortunately, many common failures and problems can be reduced, and in some cases eliminated if you perform a few key maintenance tasks.
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Loosely equivalent is calibrating the towers, but this only needs to be done when something changes, like moving or upgrading the printer.
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Else you could earn your own PhD—piled higher and deeper.
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Which means you can always tell what they worked on last.
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But there’s nothing wrong with that. I do it occasionally when no one is watching.
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Sometimes as much as 40mm can be OK. It mostly depends on how smoothly the carriages move and how much work the stepper motors must do to move them.
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An event that seems to occur more often than you think. I’ve built another Mini Kossel from my set of spares and I think I have enough to build another. All I need are the frame members. Will the circle ever be broken?
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Can you guess how I know this?
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Rest in peace, Mr. Nimoy. May your Katra endure forever.
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Bell, C. (2015). Delta Printer Maintenance. In: 3D Printing with Delta Printers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1173-1_7
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