{"id":2911,"date":"2018-09-20T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:23:32","slug":"ender-3-level-the-bed-using-feeler-gauges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=2911","title":{"rendered":"Ender 3 &#8211; Level the bed using feeler gauges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the paper method works well, I&#8217;m a person that likes to know the exact numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Paper can differ in thickness depending on gsm weight, moisture content etc.<\/p>\n<p>The way I like to level is by using a feeler gauge.<\/p>\n<p>Autohome xyz. \u00a0Then raise Z by 0.1 mm. \u00a0Disable steppers and then move the hot end to each corner. \u00a0Take a 0.1 mm feeler gauge and set each corner in turn to 0.1 mm. \u00a0I work in a X motion. \u00a0From front left to rear right, then from front right to rear left. \u00a0Do this a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that the printers Z at home should be exactly 0 and not a few .01 mm&#8217;s as your then adding to the thickness. \u00a0Say your bottom layer is set to 0.2. \u00a0if you had levelled z&#8217;s 0.0 at 0.1 then it really becomes 0.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the paper method works well, I&#8217;m a person that likes to know the exact numbers. Paper can differ in thickness depending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}