Sapphire Plus - Assembly Tips (3/4)

Assembly tips for Sapphire Plus 3D Printer - Step 3

Step 4: Mounting the Z lead screws

Before mounting your Z lead screws, you should check their planearity. Mine wasn't planar so you need to get a new one if it happens for you. To inspect your screws, please roll them on a flat surface, like...
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Sapphire Plus - Useful links

Useful links concerning Sapphire Plus printer

Issues with building the printer:

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Swappable hotend for your 3D printer

Detach and swap your hotend on your 3D printer

Sapphire Plus swappable hotend

If you have read my previous posts about replacing the hotend, you've probably already realized that changing the hotend is a tedious work.

Most of the difficulties comes from:

  1. Wiring the new hotend and sensors...
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Two Trees Sapphire Plus CoreXY 3D printer review

Review of Two Trees's Sapphire Plus Core XY 3D printer

Sapphire Plus 3D Printer

I've decided to buy this 3D printer because it looked strong and solid and well designed. I'm not going to copy all the caracteristics for this printer here, as you'll probably find a lot more on the original manufacturer website.

You'...

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Sapphire Plus - Upgrade - Replacing the hotend

Replacing the hotend with an E3D

The provided hotend for the Sapphire Plus 3D printer is average. It's not correctly cooled, so it'll fit for PLA well, but it'll be less efficient for PETG. I haven't tried ABS with it. Also, the provided teflon tube has an hole that's too large for the filamen...

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MKS Robin Nano35 - Advanced debugging

Advanced debugging of MKS Robin Nano (STM32) board

If you need to debug your printer's firmware, you've probably read my previous post already. If not, I advice you to read it.

This post is about solving the remaining issues and/or shortcomings with the debugging so that a debugging session...

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Sapphire Plus - Upgrade - Installing a BLTouch Sensor

Sapphire Plus 3D printer upgrade : Installing a BLTouch sensor

If you think that manual leveling your bed is a real pain each time you start printing (and particularly if you have a removeable magnetic print bed), then adding a BLTouch sensor will likely save you a ton of times and freedom of mi...
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Sapphire Plus - Assembly Tips (1/4)

So you've decided to buy a Sapphire Plus printer (maybe after reading my review). You've received it and now, you start the puzzle...

Building a Sapphire Plus printer: a good tutorial

Well, the manual includes few pictures and its wording is poor. I'll try my best to list the operations requ...

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