X-axis rods lube
After a out 400 hours I started having lots of ringing and ghosting. When I got printer i did not, immediately wipe X axis rods with alcohol. That finished graphite bushings. Lots of binding and the head is hard to move. I later found these bushings are not meant to be lubed. You can only use dry PTFE lube. Note that almost all "dry lubes" with ptfe are not actually dry and have up to 70% of light oil in them including WD40 PTFE one. It immediately clogs the bushing and it binds to the rods. The only ptfe lube that could work (it had just toluene and ptfe in it) was one by Blaster but they discontinued it altogether with others due to BS environmental reasons. Blaster improved resonances a lot. Since my bushings are screwed with factory oil and Blaster is no longer available i will be buying ptfe powder and mixing it with alcohol and spraying. Hope it helps.
After a out 400 hours I started having lots of ringing and ghosting. When I got printer i did not, immediately wipe X axis rods with alcohol. That finished graphite bushings. Lots of binding and the head is hard to move. I later found these bushings are not meant to be lubed. You can only use dry PTFE lube. Note that almost all "dry lubes" with ptfe are not actually dry and have up to 70% of light oil in them including WD40 PTFE one. It immediately clogs the bushing and it binds to the rods. The only ptfe lube that could work (it had just toluene and ptfe in it) was one by Blaster but they discontinued it altogether with others due to BS environmental reasons. Blaster improved resonances a lot. Since my bushings are screwed with factory oil and Blaster is no longer available i will be buying ptfe powder and mixing it with alcohol and spraying. Hope it helps.