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What are some of the questions we answered this week?

Question about bed leveling and the BL-Touch. When its doing its points of measurement on the start of a print is it taking those measurements and changing how the nozzle will meet the bed as it prints?

I have a BL- Touch and an ender 3 2.4.7 board but i want to have it running on an Anycubic mega zero would you be able to help me out?

Thoughts on the new mainboard from BIGTREETECH the E3 RRF V1.1?

My CR10 hot-end is done for. I have a dragon hot-end literally sitting on my desk. But now I see Hermera available everywhere. What would you do?

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What are some of the questions we answerd this week?

I want to make a model bigger by about 175% I whould like to know if I should increase the infill it is at 20%infill now?

Have you got a list of tools for cleaning prints?

What is the ideal speed for direct drive I have a cr10s with SKR 1.3 TMC 2130?

Are all metal hot ends any good?

Do you have any thoughts on silicon bushing replacements for bed springs?

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What are the advantages to have a direct drive?

What do guys think about the metal 3D printers?

I just got a ender 3v2 the springs are not that strong should I get different ones?

DO you need to change the esteps or anything when you install the direct drive?

everytime I print on my ender 3 V2, when I look at the layer lines, I see random tiny pits on the print, could it be the moisture on my filament?

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What did we answer this week?

I was wondering what fan I could use to replace the fan on the hotend of my Cr 10 v2? 

​I was wondering what a good direct drive and hotend would be good for a Cr 10 v2 and a Cr 10s pro v2?

I enabled/calibrated Linear Advance on my E3P with bowden, and results were terrible. Tons of zits. Is Linear Advance mostly for DD?

Do you guys think there will be much of a learning curve/never before seen issues with the CR-30?

I’ve had my Ender 5 Pro for almost three months. I haven’t upgraded anything. I can print most anything I want. Is there any reason to add a BL Touch or upgrade to a 32bit board?
 
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