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These upgrades should provide you the printing experience you want, much more than speed or temperature settings:

  1. Purchase and install a MOSFET Chip and Active Cooling Layer Fan @ http://www.ebay.com/itm/281981525554
  2. Buy a glass plate from Flashforge @ http://www.flashforge-usa.com/shop/borosilicate-glass.html
  3. Buy two upgraded nozzles and heating blocks @ http://www.ebay.com/itm/322367040044
  4. Buy a set of 608ZZ Bearings for the Z-Stabilizer @ https://www.amazon.com/Bearing-Shielded-8x22x7-Miniature-Bearings/dp/B002BBICBK
  5. Buy a set of Metal Bed Stabilizers @ http://www.ebay.com/itm/271768272076
  6. Print and install one (1) Z-Stabilizer, four (4) Z-Mounts, four (4) Y-Mounts, four (4) Glass Bed Holders, four (4) Thumbscrew Holders and one (1) Z-Shim

The last thing we do is acetone finishing on printed pieces with a small lidded fryer (just put a few drops of acetone onto the bottom, turn on warm for 30 seconds and then remove prints outdoors). This provides a nice smooth finish to the print :-).

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I am using filament from a UK based company ( as I am in the UK) they are called Rigid Ink. So far I have had a few good prints and I have read some good reviews about their filament.

Today I am going to be working on getting some of the upgrades printed

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Me Again. I have printed some of those prints but I have noticed that when leveling the bed I can slide a piece of paper over the glass bed and it just scrapes the nozzle at the edges of the print bed. However when I move the nozzle to the center of the print bed the paper is nipped tight against the glass bed.

I assumed my print bed is warped but I thought the glass bed on top of it would correct that? Has anyone got any ideas?

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Try putting a 1mm washer under each corner where you have clamped the glass down

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O.K, SO I have sorted out the bed level issue. It appears that the old corner grips I had printed for the glass bed were causing the issue. I have since printed the ones uniquesoftware suggested and this is now working fine.

Also, I installed the new nozzles and block that uniquesoftware suggested and the first print I did last night was much better and what I would expect to see off this printer. I am going to try and print a larger print soon as the last few large prints I have done have suffered from layer bad separation. It has been so bad that the prints just fall apart.

I will get this printer working well soon. Once I am done I will document on here everything I have done that has worked for me.