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Hi all, I have a quick question about my z screw coupler (as i understand it, the metal cylinder at the bottom you can manually move your z axis up and down with).

When I manually raise the z axis (with steppers disabled) by rotating the coupler clockwise, after I let it go, it reverses it's rotation on it's own and sinks back down. This is frustrating because it takes forever to actually move it any distance. Am i doing anything wrong? Should you only ever move the z axis with software, and if so, is there a way to fix the issue of it going back down? I don't know how to adjust the tightness of this part, I'm still pretty new.

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I suspect the weight of your build platform is sufficient enough to turn the Z axis leadscrew against gravity and overcome the friction within it and the motor. I've never seen a printer do that myself, so I don't know if that's indicative of any kind of failure on your particular model. When the stepper motor is energized it holds itself in position which is why this doesn't happen, for example, during a print.

If I were you I would just move the bed via software or your printer's control panel if it presents the option. That should be safer, faster, and not slowly give you carpal tunnel as an added bonus. I haven't done the math via figuring out the screw thread pitch and so forth, but for example my X-Max 3 has a total Z axis travel of something like 330mm, so it would take an entire month of Sundays and hundreds of manual revolutions to screw the damn thing from bottom to top by hand. I have a machine precisely for doing that for me...

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