What did I do wrong?

[Tachout]

OK NOw I am really confused. Took a couple minute break, and came back and rehit the Home thig and it seemed good. I have it printing the two top files and when the string of gooey comes out the end instead of a nice steady string that is smooth on the bed it is sqiggly. I look at it close with an LED Flashlight and it is off the bed too high still but instead of it being a mile away it looks like it is about the thickness of the string too hight. I set the depth using a piece of paper with a slight drag when it was cool, and used a set of calipers in four corners of the glass to the x axis cross bars. It is as level as it can get (Or atleast as level as I could get it) Wish there was a way to adjust it without it changing so drastic. Any upgrade or anything I can do to get the bed up or the head down like just a tiny big? Any tricks?

[Roxy]

Wish there was a way to adjust it without it changing so drastic. Any upgrade or anything I can do to get the bed up or the head down like just a tiny big? Any tricks?

You are ready to join the Auto_Bed_Leveling cult! Once you get that setup and dialed in, just about every print's first couple layers go down clean and crisp. If you have other problems like bridges that are too big or slopes at too steep of an angle you will have problems. But just getting the first couple of layers down every-time without a fight is nice....

[clough42]

Wish there was a way to adjust it without it changing so drastic. Any upgrade or anything I can do to get the bed up or the head down like just a tiny big? Any tricks?

If you've got the i3v (the one with the head-scratcher Z limit design) I've got you covered. Here's one that uses a screw to adjust: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:336665

Or if you want, you can use a micrometer barrel: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:356819

Or you can go with Roxy's suggestion and use auto-bed leveling. Here's my interpretation: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:335632

I'm in the auto bed leveling camp. If you use my probe design, you will definitely need to deal with getting the printer to raise the Z axis before retracting the probe so it doesn't strike the bed. I hacked the firmware myself, but it looks like Roxy has a thread with code changes that do something similar.