I just went through the manual bed leveling as described in manual bed leveling. Turning the bed screws requires quite some force, so I created the appropriate wrench bed screw wrench.
The suggested indicator “Please make sure that the nozzle is just touching the printing surface” is not easy to use, specifically for the rear screw. Better use a method, well known in tool making: slide a piece of paper between nozzle and bed and keep moving it. Turn the screw until you feel a slight drag. Do this at all three positions and you’ll reach the same height to a high precision.
Since the leveling is only about the relative and not the absolute position of the three screws, the additional height due to the paper doesn’t matter.
Hello. Why did you need to do this?
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If, for some reason, e.g. bad assembling, the build plate itself is twisted to the z-axis, the angles from x to z and y to z won’t match the angles you wanted to have. A dice would look like a parallelogram from one side.
I didn’t need to but wanted to make sure, the geometry is correct, for the reasons mentioned above.
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Ok. Sounds good
I manual level my ender 3 all the time. Maybe worth it to for the x1 at least once.
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FYI for those that read this, you can also use a 15mm socket. I hand tightened with just the socket head, and didn’t lose my fingers (the second…err…third time around).
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