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Chapter 4
Setting the printer
Your Sharebot NG is a mechanical device built with care both in design and in the Assembly. To keep
it in a State of optimal functioning is necessary to compensate for some normal processes of adjust-
ment, for example, due to repeated thermal cycles of extruder motors and print heated dish.
With each press, the entire machinery is subject to vibrations and movements that in the long run
can loosen the four screws that hold the glass by the press. This leads to not have more precise and
uniform spacing of the glass plate from the extruder which inevitably fails to apply the first layer with
the accuracy and uniformity necessary for quality printing.
Just exit out of the box, Sharebot NG should be even with the exact factory calibration, but a long
journey or vibrations during transport may have done move some adjustment screw.
Loading the filament
To be able to print you must load into the extruder thermoplastic wire that once pushed in heated
room, becomes fluid and may be extruded. Sharebot NG has a specific menu item to load the fila-
ment and is located under the heading “Prepare”. When enabled, it starts heating the extruder and
when the temperature is reached, you can load or unload the filament (the procedure is identical to
that which is accessible from the menu “Adapt” described in the previous chapter). Cold extruder
to the filament is locked and cannot be forced by pulling or pushing it into the extruder. To load the
filament, oblique cut the plastic wire ends to form a bit and put it in the pusher, making sure that the
wire runs, surpassing the sprocket and into the hole below.