Cool thanks for the heads up, I'll wait for Will to get some and throw him my business he's been good to me in the past.

-Steve

Does anyone make a PETG in black? I've had little luck printing in ABS and I'm thinking maybe I should try something new. I have a sample of yellow PETG but I haven't tried it yet as I really need something in black.

-Steve

Here's a video on how to set the Z stop height

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Cz6jPPECM

-Steve

Thanks, I've only run PLA through it so far at all the same settings I used on the 3VB (basically stock S3D settings) but it's printing great. I plan on trying ABS this weekend and I have some flex stuff to try too I just need to find something worth printing in it.

-Steve

First thank you for your service... Welcome to the M2 club your going to love it and it sounds like you bought everything you need right off that bat so you should be good there for awhile. You made the right decision going with the M2, I've heard a lot of people are disappointed with the Makerbots ...

Before you go taking it apart did you try doing the cold pull technique on it to clean it? I did this last night and you can see from the below picture is is very effective when it even cleans out the .35 tip. clog001.jpg Basically with the temp off and the filament still in the extruder I removed t...

If the piece is just for decoration (looks like a water tower for a train set maybe?) fill in the voids with a filler, (I use spot gazing putty from an auto parts store) sand it, then paint it. To avoid the layer separation in the first place you might need to use a heated build chamber when printin...

I think this might be what your looking for http://makergear.wikidot.com/m2-getting-started#toc13 it has info on checking all the end stops and such.

-Steve

Wow that's pretty sweet looking, I'm glad to hear the quality is nice and the parts are well made I just ordered the all metal extruder yesterday.

-Steve

Ronnien55, it looks good and it might just be deceiving in the picture you posted but you don't want your actual hot end to touch the conical (cone shape) part of your extruder drive. There should be a bit of a separation between the two parts like shown below. If yours is touching just loosen the s...