Ohhh, I didn’t even consider that. That could be an issue too. But since he has the regular PTFE, they should be fine. They are much biger than filament dia.
That’s true. I’ve noticed one or two brands of pla that felt very matte and almost gritty to the touch. It didn’t like going through the capricorn tubing as easily as others.
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The reviews for this filament seemed generally very good but if you do look at the bad ones, they mention a lot of clogging issues. Maybe I just got a bad roll. 14bucks for 1kg so you get what ya get haha
Discobot can get that clog out for you.
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For plain PLA price and brand don’t matter in my experience, with everything else like PETG or ASA you save a lot of nerves when getting high quality filament imo 
Been using Simplify3d for 4 years now, totally worth the investment and the customization is endless
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I’ve been playing with my new 3D printer for probably 48 straight hours now.
I can see myself becoming completely obsessed with this.
But first things first I need to work on the noise.
I’m already driving the wife crazy having this thing running 24 hours a day.
First thing I’m going to do is put some vibration dampeners on. Probably only on x and y so might have extras for someone 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S63S5LT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0enbEbYC52VAH
Then I’ll probably replace the two stock fans with
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009NQLT0M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_oinbEb2QBG1BE
With so many different opinions and reviews on the silent board mods I haven’t quite decided what I would like to do. So I’m holding off a bit.
I guess I should probably get some replacement springs while I’m at it for bed leveling.
I already have a glass bed on the way.
Any other recommendations or problems people see with my current plans
Literally just doing that now on a Ender 3
Steeper motor dampener makes a big difrance but you need new hardware as well.
A Ender 3 is 24v the fans you linked only come in 5 or 12v so you will need a buck converter literally installing one now.
Witch come to my question
I think not a electronics persion so can some one confirm or correct me.
V0+ Is Load +
eND Is Load -
1N+ is Supply +
EN is Supply -
Wait. What is this?
@Skunk, resting the printer over soft foam didn’t help much? BTW, you should get a small $5 tent from Ikea to put the printer in. You have small kids in the house and it’s not good to have printer running in the same space all the time. PLA is fairly benign but still it produces small particles that goes into the lungs and into the body.
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It’s not like it’s rattling or anyting.
You can just hear the fans and the motors to the entire apartment.
You can reduce the current to the stepper motors to slightly reduce their noise (just ensure not enough to stall them), as my CR-10 came from factory with the current set way too high. The rubber dampeners did help me quite a bit as well, and was not able to see any difference in quality after installing them.
And get some quality fans. The stock ones on my CR10 really sucked.
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I assume the Ender 3 has the same cheap motor drivers as most cheap printers. Then an upgrade to TMC2209s is a good idea. Most of the noise that one would attribute to the motors often actually comes from the drivers.
That tiny noctua fan is a great idea for the hotend. Just don’t use that or a similar fan for part cooling as well, those fans are special for a reason. And try to use larger noctuas for the rest (drivers/mainboard, PSU), they are even more quiet.
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It seems like the fans for the hot end are the only ones that make much noise.
the one in the power supply is pretty quiet as is.
Yeah, it is definitely the loudest. But the mainboard often has an unnecessarily tiny fan as well. If you want it to get near silent (as much as it is possible) you need to optimize every little thing as sound power adds up.
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Any recommendations for the other fans?
I have the Noctua NF-A4x10 that you posted for the hotend and 2x Noctua NF-A9x14 for the PSU and mainboard. Both are mounted with 3d printed frames, as they are quite a bit larger than the stock fans.
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I have no idea what EN is but didn’t work As a supply neg. so commend out the eNG with I thing is suppose to say GND from a bad China translation. The 5v rail I gave up trying to solder short the solder pads on the back Of the buck converter and set the variable dial to 5V instead b4 heat shrinking over it all and conected it all with DuPon connectors in case I ever want to remove the 5Vfan and go back to the 24V
Put some smothers on the x and y axis with some fish paper as didn’t have any heat shrink big enough to go over them and don’t like the idea of them in there louse with out some thing over them.
Upgraded the feeder to mettle as the plastics one was wearing through as well as a caption tube.
buck converter on the rasbury pie to power it off the printer power supply. heatsinks and fan to cool it down as it was hiting thermal and under clocking it’s self and mounted it in case to mount on the printer.
I’m confused how mount the steeper motor dampeners as both the x and y axles will be to short.
Need a longer pie camp ribbon cable measured it 6 times and it’s still the wrong length.
Forgot to swop the springs out for stiffer ones Then try to reload the filament
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@Venom121212, this might be something you are interested in. BTW, how is the print these days?
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The estep calibration helped a lot with the line thickness issue. I had so many Christmas orders that I haven’t been able to sneak in an xyz cube to compare apples to apples. Left the day after christmas to go on a trip.
This is the only photo I have after estep calibration, im thinking that back left corner of the bed was a bit low.
Bottom layer looked alright otherwise.
I’ve been looking into that wipe setting after watching that exact video the other day. Coasting has been nice but I’ll still get a few artifacts on the outer wall. I will try that wipe setting out.
Last print was this guy
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I was having issues with the test print of the dog on the ender 3 sd card it would retract a ton then I would have no filament for the first layer and it would take halfway through the second layer for the filament to catch up.
I used the chep leveling and square printing on thingiverse and decided f it and printing something usefull. Loop key handle
While this seems to be printing fine, I’m very curious about the retraction problem I had, anyone have that issue?