0:01 welcome to figure feedback my name is
0:02 Jeremy and today I'm going to be doing
0:05 some basic maintenance on the flash
0:08 Forge Adventure 5m 3D printer now I know
0:10 that that might sound really daunting
0:11 and maybe even intimidating at first but
0:15 this is just really basic ordinary
0:17 everyday things that you should do just
0:18 to make sure that your 3D printer
0:21 continues to print properly and smoothly
0:23 and gives you as little problems as
0:24 possible I'm not going to be doing
0:26 anything crazy I'm not going to be
0:28 taking anything apart we're not going to
0:30 be messing with any belts or anything
0:33 like that just some really Baseline
0:36 stuff that anybody can do and it's not
0:39 expensive to do so so first what I'm
0:42 going to do is some basic cleaning
0:44 because as you know when you're printing
0:47 these things tend to collect dust you're
0:48 going to have little scraps of filament
0:51 that find their way underneath the bed
0:54 on the bed around the bed near these
0:56 threads so you just want to get it all
0:58 cleaned up so I got myself a microfiber
1:01 cloth here a dust free cloth and I'm
1:03 just going to wipe things down you know
1:05 because I see that there's quite a bit
1:08 of dust down here at the bottom and then
1:10 another reason why you want to do this
1:12 is sometimes you'll get little bits of
1:13 of filament that find their way down
1:15 here and you don't want any of them to
1:19 kind of get stuck where these rods are
1:21 and you know might cause you an issue it
1:23 may not but why even take the chance you
1:25 know so just get under here because I
1:27 know that we don't usually go under here
1:30 all that much you know but since we got
1:32 the printer all out like this let's just
1:35 take this microfiber cloth and just get
1:38 it nice and dusted and this is not
1:40 something that you you know have to do
1:42 only when you're doing the other
1:44 maintenance you know if you got yourself
1:46 just a few minutes of your time you know
1:48 in between prints or whatever you're
1:50 going to be around the machine anyway so
1:52 why not just bring down the cloth give
1:54 it a good wipe down and just be done
1:56 with it so that you don't have to worry
1:59 about so much accumulation building up
2:01 over time so you know we're just taking
2:03 care of it just like you might take care
2:05 of uh you know like that first car that
2:07 you bought you know just make sure that
2:12 everything is nice and clean all right
2:14 groovy so next thing I'm going to do is
2:18 apply some grease now for the Venture 5m
2:20 you're going to want to apply some
2:22 lubrication um once you reach the 200
2:25 printing hour mark for the printer if
2:26 you want to find out how many hours
2:27 you've been printing you can just turn
2:30 it on go down to the information menu
2:32 that's at the bottom right click on that
2:33 it's going to give you a lot of
2:35 information including your printing time
2:38 so I just got myself some grease right
2:40 here um so this is a lithium grease this
2:43 is part of the teu hul that I got so I
2:45 am going to apply this to the metal bits
2:48 the rails that the print head is on so
2:50 I'm going to apply some here I'm going
2:52 to apply some here on this rail I'm
2:54 going to apply some on this rail over
2:57 here as well as these screws here not
2:59 going to use a lot just a little bit so
3:03 I'm just going to apply a little
3:07 bit onto this rail then I'm going to
3:09 take the print head and I'm going to
3:12 manually move
3:15 it right across the rail just like that
3:18 not using a ton of Grease just a little
3:20 bit little bit of
3:24 duya little bit more for the bottom
3:28 rail and just move this
3:30 across I'm only going to do a couple of
3:31 times just to kind of get it rolling but
3:33 you know as we continue to print it's
3:35 going to be doing that all the time all
3:37 right so now I'm just going to do this
3:38 for some of the other rails I'm just
3:40 going to move over to the side and
3:44 that's why I'm wearing this glove here
3:47 because for over here I'm just going to
3:49 put a little
3:52 bit on my gloved finger and I'm just
3:54 going to rub
3:58 it right on this rail with my gloved
4:01 finger and I'm going to do the same
4:04 thing on this side just apply a little
4:06 bit of
4:08 Grease going to put some grease right
4:12 here on this Rod at the
4:16 top some grease at the bottom on this
4:18 Rod then also going to show a little bit
4:22 of love to these threaded screws as well
4:24 all right now that our rods are thoroughly
4:25 thoroughly
4:28 G all right so now that I got that done
4:30 I'm going to turn the printer on [Music]
4:31 [Music]
4:35 because now I am going to clean the
4:37 nozzle so that's something we should
4:39 also be careful not to neglect the
4:40 nozzle especially if you're printing
4:44 with a stickier filament like PG even
4:46 though you might not see it when you're
4:47 just looking at it you might have some
4:49 filament that's just stuck to maybe the
4:51 backside maybe it's on the side you know
4:54 it's there nonetheless and we are going
4:57 to be cleaning it and I have this this
4:59 copper bristle brush that I'm going to
5:02 use to clean the nozzle so once the
5:04 machine gets nice and initialized I'm am
5:06 going to heat up the nozzle to pretty
5:08 much around the Standard Printing
5:09 temperature that I use most of the time
5:11 so I'm just going to do 220 and once
5:13 it's heated up I'm just going to give it
5:15 a good brush with this uh with this
5:17 copper bristle brush to get it nice and
5:20 clean and cleaning the nozzle with this
5:22 copper brush is going to be okay because
5:24 this nozzle is stainless steel but these
5:27 copper bristles are well copper and
5:30 since copper is softer than the Ste then
5:32 we should be able to clean it without
5:35 damaging the nozzle so we're at
5:40 220° so let's just give this a nice little
5:41 little
5:43 clean and if you got more than one
5:46 nozzle you know just uh you can go ahead
5:49 and just clean multiple nozzles so that
5:51 was easy enough so what I'm going to do
5:53 now is I'm going to home the
5:56 printer because I did just grease these
6:00 uh these rods so I'm just going to H it
6:02 so that everything can just go down and
6:04 move front to
6:06 back and then I'm just going to change
6:08 the direction so we're just going to go
6:12 to the left and then we're also going to
6:14 move along this axis as
6:18 well and uh that's pretty much
6:21 it I don't really need to do anything
6:23 else I'm a firm believer of if it ain't
6:25 broke don't fix it this printer has been
6:28 printing just wonderfully for for me
6:30 since I got it so I don't feel any need
6:34 to mess with any tension on the belt or
6:36 or anything like that that's not to say
6:37 that in the future there won't be a need
6:40 for that but just currently right now
6:42 I'm not going to mess with it until
6:43 something gives me an indication that I
6:46 may need to mess with it but for now
6:49 that's just the basic maintenance of
6:51 this printer then another thing you can
6:53 do if you want you could go around to
6:55 these screws on the frame and you can
6:57 use your Allen key just to make sure
6:58 that these screws are still nice and
7:00 tight these are so that's nothing to
7:02 worry about and like I said this printer
7:04 hasn't been giving me any problems so I
7:05 don't feel the need to try to do any
7:08 surgery on it or anything like that so
7:10 just keep it clean keep it lubricated
7:13 and keep your nozzle Clean and Free from
7:16 residue as often as you can and the
7:18 printer barring any kind of you know
7:19 mechanical unfortunate failures it
7:22 should continue to serve you well for
7:25 what you need it to do so that's it for
7:26 now thank you all so much for watching
7:28 till next time take care of yourselves
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