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36 User Manual
Arduino Materia 101
CLEANING THE PRINTER
Arduino Materia 101 does not require any
special maintenance, but, like all machinery,
efficiency increases if kept clean.
PRINTING BED
The first layer of the object we print is
essential to the success of the press: for this
reason the printing floor must be perfectly
smooth, with a uniform layer of lacquer
applied. After many prints, lacquer layers
overlap and together with residues of printed
pieces are compromising the flatness of the
surface of the glass, creating irregularities:
taking great care in moving we can wash
the glass with warm water and remove any
residual impurities.
STRETCHER
The cogwheel of the motor of the
extruder and its cushioned pulley tend to
“eat” the filaments. For a perfect sliding
filament it is necessary check accumulate
dust or other debris by stranded on
the pulley and onto the sprocket.
If you want to carry out thorough cleaning,
unscrew the 4 lateral screws (those with
springs) and sweep away plaque with its
bearing; then removing any residue. After
that you can reinstall everything and run the
filament.
Durante il caricamento del filo, provate
a bloccare il filo con le dita; se questo
dovesse causare uno “slittamento”
della puleggia sul filamento, le molle
vanno strette fino ad avere una presa
tale da far saltare passi al motore
(dovreste sentire un rumore metallico
simile a un tak tak). Le molle non
vanno strette eccessivamente per
evitare che il motore sia troppo sotto
sforzo e di conseguenza perda passi.
NOZZLE
If you want to remove material left on the
tip of the nozzle, “Prepare” menu choose
“Preheat” left or right depending on the
nozzle you want cleaned; then select “move
axis”, and then extrude any inch of material
from the nozzle until it drags the leftover
material earlier. Now select “cools” and
when the temperature of the nozzle will
be between 100-150°C head with tweezers
to pick up the dribble of material that
hangs from the extruder and pull it off.
Alternatively you can select from the
menu “Prepare” the exchange command
wire to the extruder interested.
LUBRIFICATION
It is required only after an intensive use
of the machine (or early if used in a dusty
environment -strongly discouraged!-). In
any case it is the machine itself to ask this
question began to whistle during handling.
Apply a drop of sewing machine oil
or a petroleum jelly on top of worm Z
and X and Y guides; handled axes to
apply uniform oil on total length.
PUTTING IN TENSION
THE BELTS
For perfect efficiency of the machine, the
belts that move the axes should always be
properly coil; to tighten the straps on the
y-axis, we can adjust the screws placed on
the top of the shoulders: side for clockwise
will increase the tension and vice versa;
to tension the belt of y-axis movement
we need to adjust the two screws on the
right side of the unit fastening the engine
y: first must be loosened in order to then
move down the engine by increasing belt
tension; got the perfect tension rescrew
the two screws firmly. to tighten the belt
for the x-axis the procedure is similar:
let us relieve the stepper X screws (on
the right shoulder of the machine), move
the engine to get the belt and tension
and tighten the two allen screws.
A CORRECT VENTILATION
Your Materia 101 is equipped with a cooling
fan devoted to electronics, located at the
lower left on the front seat: you will notice
that when the printer is turned on and stays
on at all times. It should make sure that
dust or other debris do not obstruct the
forced cooling of electronics, blocking in the
long run also the functioning of the fan.
The stepper motor of extruder is a fan
dedicated to its cooling: it too is vital to
the correct managed prints and drawings;
If not properly cooled the engine transmits
the heat to drag wire wheel, which in turn
heating the filament loses efficiency.
The fan motor cooling of extruders
must always be pressed when
the machine is in motion.
UPDATING THE FIRMWARE
Arduino Materia 101 uses an Open firmware
and receives frequent updates. We advise
you to periodically check our website for
updated firmware, so to keep your Arduino
Materia 101 optimal operating conditions and
potentially improved over previous versions.
Instructions on how to do the update are