X400 DIY Special offer kit (buildup)

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Dear Luchador,

I have read all the article (even old one) and am very happy for you and your printer...

WELL I am too owner of the same printer bought on early Oct 2014 and still up today the printer is NOT functioning...

Among some TOO MANY problems with the manual NOT being fully translated.
Parts missing. Ok Not a serious problem but still the frustration is there.
Many mistakes in the drawings like the Vcc is ALWAYS (+) and in the opto terminals are differently... If memory serves right are yellow... Of course the drawings have this attested... Still not great for the norms ...

I had some wrong photos vs wrong drawing... I had ti presume a lot of what goes where...
And the wires... Ok... Here is another one... The EX0 is the EX1... Ok even this is not difficult to realize... BUT it still therr adding to the general page...

All parts needs 3 or 4 or more spacers (ring spacers) in order the bearings NOT touch with the bearing bushing... Or the Extruder to have 3 or 4 spacers .... Well THIS IS NOT RIGHT IN DESIGNING ... Their dimensioning is SITTY CRAP... PAKISTANIAN MADE...
They could use correct height cut pipes in order to have this space and I would wait for the next generation of the crappy X400 GERMANREPRAP to have make the parts with correct dimensioning and just use only one spacer...

Now I got a RAMPS 1.4.2 as all the X400 GERMANREPRAP CRAP printers DO... Well mine had a baby fuse 5A fail.. and had to search ALLL AND EVERYTHING FROM THE BEGINNING TWICE...

The Z Axis... HAHHAHAHA... The triangle shity idea movement... NEVER WORKED... In fact I did even changed the NEMA 17Motore with a NEMA 23 motor... of 14Kgrs/cm if memory serves well directly from POLOLOU... Still the Z axis refuses to function. Only if help it with hand... A very slight touch but still needed...

I tuned a million times the DRIVERS... OOOOOHHH!!! I even changed drivers twice as I though the Drivers might not deliver enough power to move the NEMA17 or later NEMA23... Well guess again... It did not move even with the DRV TEXAS drivers capable of 2A withouth fan...

I did also cut to reduce the weight of the STEEL frame holding the heating bed... I cut a rectangle hole about -40% of weight... Still holding the rigidity of the construction.
Still Z axis NOT MOVING...

I then turned to the leveling of the ball screws....

Still forgot to say.. the plastic printed part from GERMANREPRAP CRAP that holds the roll bearing and the NUT so the whole axis move from bottom to top and vice versa...

well It was not tight enough as a result the NUT to have a short dislocation... Also the centers of this plastic with the STEEL BED (the one holds the heating bed...) WHERE NOT CENTERED but had a +/- 2mm difference.... So I took a Φ20mm drill and made ont whole bigger... I cut the plastic so it could move freely to the new position...

I tried all and still the Z axis refused to work....It is so tight everything and the centers so awfull that I need to remake the whole system...

Now do I have to say I had all these issues and tried to reach the m@thafack@Rs but still their policy send yous the ticket... HAHAHAHa... anyway I had one ticket and asked them some questions... As always the answers are half... So I had to reopen another ticket and wait for another 5 or 6 days...

Finaly I said F@CK THEM ... I will do it my self.. I ordered some NEW RAMPS... I did a Parallel connection for the Y axis as you know the sitty crap germanreprap has 2 motors for Y axis... and only crib for Z axis...

Now I have tear apart all the Z axis and bought some roll bearings for put on top of the ball screws so I can have a decent center...
After that I will put the other motor the NEMA17 I have as spare under one of the ball screws as result to have a NEMA23 and NEMA17 power to lift the Z axis...

AFTER ALL. I WOULD NOT SUGGEST THIS COMPANY FOR NO REASON EVEN THEY WERE THE LAST COMPANY ON EARTH...

IT IS THE WORST SERVICE... CRAP MACHINE AND WAYYYY OVERRATED

STAY AWAY FROM THEM!!!! Just my 2 cents