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