3D Printer Fix Up - Geeetech Pro B - Part 1 - Chris's Basement
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- In this series, we are going to take my very first 3D printer from not so great to hopefully a decent 3D printer.
00:00 Intro
01:13 Quick Testprint
02:01 Previous Upgrades
02:56 Printer Overview
06:24 Conclusion
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Yo ! The Netherlands here. Chris i've started with this exact same machine and 2560 board. Mine was wood instead of acryllic.I still remember the 'wow' feeling when i first saw it producing a 3d'ish sort of print. :- ) This machine learned me a lot. I soon put in a genuine E3D -lite ( had to construct a 'holder' for it. Did tuning, and tuning and tuning and.... printed me all parts necaissary for building a Hypercube following Tech2c's instructions.This also learned me much. Now i'm a happy owner of a 3d printer with good (reasonable) printing results. Learned also from this chanel. Nice work, country-man !
Hey Ron, great to hear you got your up and going with reasonable results. I always wanted to see one of the wood ones. The Tech2c build is awesome as well. I will be building something like the Hypercube soon.
Nice video. I think I enjoy tinkering with my 3D printers as much as printing with them. I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thanks Corey!
That was my first 3d printer and it was very reliable and still works to this day, 4years and going.
I retired my first one about 4 months ago due to the plywood frame warping it was a good delta still had the mark 4 or 5 j head. I used it for a year and a half or so then got an anet a8 to occupancy it. Used them both till I decided I wanted something new to fiddle with and now have an ender 5 pro and ender 5 plus. They worked great out of the box but the plus was loud with the a4988s so it got a skr 1.4 tmc2209s and a hemera. The pro is going to get the same treatment when I finish with the plus due to me not liking bowden.
How far we have come in the last couple of years.
I look forward to seeing your refurbishment series!
I just built a similar machine, based on a Reprapguru acrylic frame from eBay and a modern SKR Mini v1.1 controller. I gave up on recycling my old 5mm threaded rods. I found some centering z couplers that have both clamping and set screws and some lead screws. then I printed some mk3s x ends in Hatchbox orange pet-g. I also switched away from using leveling springs and mounted the PCB heater on ABS standoffs, leveling using Marlin's 3-point lcd-controlled probing.
I really need to get away from building Mendel-based machines though, if only to gain more diverse experience.
Good ideas here for sure. We will see what we come up with.
Really looking forward to this series
Thanks! Stay tuned!
This should be a fun series
Thanks Shaun, we shall see. ;)
Hi Chris,
And I bet it can still print waaaaaay better than the CTC... ;)
Looking forward to watching this one get re-born...
Please take care and keep yourselves safe over that way...
Andy...
Thanks Andy, you take care as well and yes, still better than the CTC.
Awesome project. I run this printer and am getting pretty decent prints out of it. I do have the version with lead screws though and added a ton of modifications. For what it is it gave (and still gives) a lot of fun and satisfaction both printing stuff and modifying it. Looking forward to see you making yours shine.
Thanks Frank, it is fun to mod it, we will see what I come up with.
This looks to be a fun series. Looking forward to the next episode.
Thanks Shawn!
Chris, just wanted to say your content is awesome and I love your work. Wish you had more subscribers because you definitely deserve more. Thank you for all your efforts
Thank you so much, people, like you are what keep me going.
Looking forward for part 2! I have the same printer and would like to see software updating, Z wobling fixing and other tricks on that one. :)
Coming soon!
Chris Riley I’m subbed and cant wait!
Looking forward to this series. I bought this printer 3 years ago, assembled. It never printed correctly and then gave up. Hopefully this series will help me get a successful print. Regardless of quality.
Cool, I will try to get going on this soon.
And here I am dialing in my old i3 Pro B to get ready for printing Voron 2.2 parts xD
Should be an interesting series
Thanks Adam, we will see how it goes.
@@ChrisRiley Currently waiting on smooth rod to arrive for Y axis. Chased issues with movement on that axis causing egg shaped circles and after ordering new bearings realised the rod that came with the kit was ever so slightly oversized on one, causing one side to bind a little.
Now the long wait for delivery in these troubling times... Will get there.
Love your channel though dude, very informative. Keep up the good work and most of all, keep safe!
I started with that same printer, literally took all of my effort to modify it to fix the many issues I had with it. As someone new to the party I had to find the issues one by one and then either create a solution or copy someone else. I thought this was fun then, now I just want reliability.
I thought this would be a great look back. I am sure a ton of us started the same way. This should be fun.
Awesome video series, can't wait to see what you do to modernize this printer 👍
Thank you! We will see what we can do!
Fantastic I can't wait to see the next video
Thanks!
LOL! You and I must both be drinking the Missouri water. (Been thinking about retro-fitting my Mendel Sells)
I can't wait to see this whole series play out.
LOL, we will see what happens!
That takes me back to my first DIY build. It was a completely home built i3 style with a ply wood frame. I learnt a lot from doing it and it printed very well ... eventually lol
I hear that! We will see how it goes.
looking forward to this build. hope you have parts in stock because shipping is slowed way down right now.
Yeah, that has put a crimp on some of my projects.
Been rebuilding my Anet a8 that is built in the same way would love to see the rest of this series
Cool, I hope to get more of this out soon.
Great challenge here ! May the force be with you ^^ lol I started to upgrade my Zonestar P802M too, buyed in 2016....
lol, thanks!
Haha. My first printer was a Geeetech i3 pro b too back in 2017. It printed somewhat reliably for about 2 years. Then I bought a Tevo Tornado and the print quality is way better. So ihaven't use the i3 to much since. Can't wait to see what you do with yours.
Cool, yeah, we will see what happens.
I'm looking forward to seeing this new series
Thanks, we will see how it goes.
Looking forward to seeing the upgrades... WHAT A TEASER VIDEO!!! I kid keep up the good work.
Thanks Dan!
This is really interesting to me. This was my first 3d printer too (mostly due to lack of investigating and buying the first thing for under 200$ I could find). I look forward to this! my wife has idly considered rebuilding our Geeetech Pro B too. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Seth, we will see what happens.
I'd reconsider keeping that 2560 board, Chris. I've had an..um..similar machine for a first 3d printer and the board was the first thing that had to go. Of course, mine didn't have a bootloader and I didn't bother, so maybe with a newer Marlin it'd be ok? On the other hand, it's a bit of an overkill to go 32-bits for this printer. I've got a RAMPS combo on mine and it's still going strong. The only original parts that are still on, are the frame, the motors and the lcd though. Still good though, good enough.
Looking forward to see what you come up for yours.Great content as always
Thanks we will see how it goes, if we run into issues we can always swap in something else.
Under a ton of custom crap this is still my only actual printer (the i3X actually).... really looking forward to see what you go from here...
This should be a fun one!
Great. My first 3d printer too and still only. Mine is not stock either. I think frame and steppers are the only thing stock. E3d V6 clone extruder, BMG clone, skr 1.3 + 2.4tft. 24v supply, Bl touch, part cooling, filament runout, plus bits and pieces.
Will be interesting to compare notes.
Regarding the gt2560 board. My board desoldered the heatbed connection on its own. Permanently soldered the wires to it. Some day my board went dangerous again, while printing, setting the reading temperature to ca180 while continuing showing power to hotend (I think it was hotter than the sun at a point. PTFE tube and PLA was charcoal, but no fire). I'm glad I never print unattended during night on that machine.
Cool list of mods, we will see how it goes, this is my second boards on this machine, I forgot about that, the first one had some issue.
@@ChrisRiley it had been a good (and steep) learning experience. It's been my workhorse for years. Now I'm gathering parts for a corexy printer loosely based on the hypercube.
Always funny to blow some dust off old things :D ...thanks for sharing
Absolutely!
Yay!! I finally guilted ya into doing this! This was the second printer I ever bought .
LOL, we will see how it goes.
Hey Chris, I work on the CTC Prusa i3 3D printer, because it's my first 3D printer and it had always issues. I love to watch your series
Nice! We will see how this comes out.
Nice video Chris looking forward to more, maybe I'll dig out and rebuild my first 3D printer.... The Printrbot LC :-).
Thanks, James, I still have to get to working on my Printrbot project.
Looks like a Hypercube starter kit! My A8 was!
Great idea, we will see what we can do.
Interesting concept!
I hope to learn something to apply to my first 3d printer, the Anet A6 :)
Thanks! I am sure we will learn something after all this.
You definitely have some work to do, look forward to see what happens.
For sure Sergio, we will see what happens.
Cool! This is also my first 3D printer. I hope I can learn a lot from your new series and all your experience. The extruder is now actually my biggest problem and doesn't work well.
Now my normal printer is the CR-10S that I also upgraded a lot. But this machine works a hole lot better than the Geeetech.
I'll stay tuned :)
Yes, the extruder has always been the biggest pain, we will see what we can do.
@@ChrisRiley Perfect. Do you also want to change the hot end? I'll stay tuned :)
@@pascal4650 I think we will for sure, we will see how it goes.
Great idea for a vid series. I have a 2014 MendalMax mostly completed kit that could use some TLC. Looking forward to see what you choose.
Thanks! Love the mendal machines.
Ooh, that cube!! I want to make one for mine now!
lol, that thing is beat up and heavy.
@@ChrisRiley but it WORKED... 😁
I got the pro c back in the days and now is collecting dust, think I'm gonna fallow your steps
Nice! We will see how it goes! ;)
Im really into the series, pls keep making good videos like this
Thank you, will do!
Looking forward to this series. I'd love to get my old Geeetech running again. Would you be going as far as a new aluminium extrusion frame perhaps?
I am not sure how far we will go, this is going to be interesting, so many little things to fix.
@@ChrisRiley Hi, checkout www.thingiverse.com/thing:3422725 - don't think iys been done on CZcams yet. Just a thought.
I own a Anet A8 that predates this machine i am pretty sure. I see a load of similarities between this and my A8. There is so much you can do to this machine it just deppends on what you want to spend.
If you want to use this printer only to make its own parts this is what i would do.
I would start by getting a desktop fan blowing on it as part cooling or just print ABS (ABS better for upgrades anyway).
Swap threaded rod for lead screws immediately. Update firmware for saftey reasons mostly.
Quality can be acheived by printing slow. Frame reinforcement of threaded rods can come later as you have a working ABL.
Mosfet for the bed fir saftey does it need it? I remember that mainboard uses a 4pin ATX connector which is a little scary at 10amp.
Print a v6 hotend mount in bowden that all ways nice on these machines.
Frame reinforcements of threaded rod stiffeners or frame upgrade? EMT8/ AMT8/ piper 1 can fit these parts for sure but i would keep it cheap and get threaded rod.
Thanks for all the great ideas, we will see how it goes.
That’s awesome I going to love this series. I’ve been updating my first printer a tronxy p802 which I don’t use anymore but I’m trying to bring it back to fighting weight. I’m just stuck on the board and firmware not my area of expertise and I’m not really sure what to do. I wanted to use the same firmware as my Prusa MK3 but not sure how any advice would be appreciated and hopefully you cover something similar to this when you update your board.
Thanks! Yeah, the Prusa stuff is going to be really hard to use on another machine. Your best bet is going to be doing a custom Marlin config.
Okay thank you, I’ll definitely be checking out your Marlin how to vids and any other reference material I can and see if I can make a custom Marlin configuration for my tronxy.
I know that you what to print with the best quality that is possible, but maybe can you give cheaper alternatives by your upgrades when you use some expensive upgrades? Because I'm just a student and don't have a lot money that I can spend to upgrade my machine too.
Hey Pascal, I completely understand. We will start with the more affordable stuff first.
Interested to see what you do for the extruder on this as I am just getting my son's Geeetech i3 going again after a couple of years gathering dust
I am working on the parts right now!
lol this is the same printer i started with. and funny thing is, i am about to give it a makeover even now.
Ha, that's great! Let us know how it goes
It was my first too!!!!
Nice!
Any thoughts on when the second part to this series will air? I'm looking forward to this as I have a few older printers that I might update as well. Wanted to see what you ended up doing to your geeetech. Thanks!
Hoping to get it done in the next 3 weeks or so.
I have pretty much the same story with getting the printer to work. Whenever you cut to the wires I laughed out loud because mine looks the exact same
Lol, thanks for watching
I have a shelf dust collector i3 pro w. So I'm interested in what you do!
Thanks Jordan, this should be interesting!
You make good videos. 😁
Thanks! 😁
Hey Chris. Just curious what do you do for a day job?.
Hey, I am a mainframe systems programmer.
This is my 1st, current and only 3d printer. Currently mk3 bed, titan extruder and v6 hotend are making their way to me from China... I wonder if your and my upgrades will align?? When is part 2 out?
I hope to get back to this shortly, we will see. :)
@@ChrisRiley Looking forward to it. BTW I found your klipper tutorial really useful and now running klipper on this printer...
Keep it up, mate! I just reieved somethinglikeit clone.
Thanks man! WIll do!
yes that is great we could learn something with you :)
It should be fun!
Soooo. I just got one of these used, and according to Facebook groups, the card reader is dead, do you know where I can find a replacement?
You can use any 2004 screen. amzn.to/3Xa0SDh
When will you start this project ?
Soon I hope!
Just like the good ol' Tarantula. Took me like 40 hours to even really print half decent, and it was still a frustrating mess. Four printers later, be glad the Ender 3 is what it is. It spoiles you.
Totally agree, the Ender 3 really made a difference.
Part 2 ?
Great timing, it comes out today!
Can't wait for the sequals. Hit me up on thingiverse for some mods that I altered for this printer.. 😁
Nice, I will take a look.
HI YA CHRIS .. HOW YOU ARE WELL. BOY THOSE Z COUPLER'S ARE DANCING AROUND LIKE A LITTLE HULA DOLL ON A DASHBOARD OF A CAR GOING DOWN A ROUGH ROAD.
LOL, yep those are dancing like crazy. We are all good here, hope you are too.
my first one is a CTC clone of that one, lol
Nice! This should be interesting, to say the least.
I have a Geeetech i3 Pro W and it had so much flex in the mounting of the linear bearings for the Z-axis, that the whole carriage could be bent back and fourth easily. I remixed a solution on Thingiverse (original broke too easily in my experience): www.thingiverse.com/thing:3997593 It should fit your printer as well, since it was originally designed for the i3 Pro B
Cool, thanks for the link.
@@ChrisRiley I made a collection, where I put all mods that I printed (and still could find) in. Maybe this will help you :) www.thingiverse.com/Auravendill/collections/geeetech-i3
You are Awesome Chris! This was my first printer also. I bought mine in may of 2016. I have recently made some well designed bracing for the frame and also a mount for a tft32 and a buck lm2596 step down converter. I shared all the .stl's here if you want to reinforce your geeetech i3 pro b : www.thingiverse.com/thing:4216629
Nice! Thanks for the link!
I have learned so much from your videos. So many of my projects have turned out well because of you. Please don't ever stop making these helpful videos.
Something like this www.thingiverse.com/thing:2766614 , or a GEEETech Bear / AM8 ? :-)
Wow, that looks like a sweet upgrade.