TAZ 6 Missing Leveling Washers

Hi!

I’m getting this weird issue with a secondhand TAZ pro 6, the video is linked below. Essentially the nozzle is missing the right washers (around 4:00 in the video) and the print is aborted immediately after the back right washer is missed and the video ends. The nozzle is clean and the x-gantry is level with the bed. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!

(edit: also the felt wipers are missing, but that’s an issue for another day)

Well, there is no such thing as a Taz Pro 6.

It’s just a Taz Pro.

What firmware are you running? I’ve been running modified Pros for a while now so haven’t seen if they’ve changed pre-leveling wipe sequence for a bit, but that motion at the beginning was never done before attempting to probe in the versions I was running.

There may be a nozzle offset configured, or your Y axis may have shifted at some point.

Without the nozzle wipers, you’re going to have a terrible time trying to get the nozzle-to-washer leveling to work at all.

I’m not sure what firmware it is running but I will get back to you once I find out. I assume it’ll be available somewhere in the menu. I will look into resetting the nozzle offset and y axes, and also into things I can use as wipers :sweat_smile:. Strangely though, the nozzle seems to hit the left front washer just fine.

Thank you so much!

It’s hitting the washer, but it’s not hitting it fine.

Leveling should hit the quadrant of the circle that overlaps with the print bed. It’s hitting the left side of the first washer. I can’t tell if it’s the front or back half, but it should be the back half. If it’s hitting the left side of the left washer, then it’ll miss the left side of the right washer.

Are you starting a print in this video, or did you just hit the “clean nozzle” option in the menu?

Oh, I had no idea – thanks for letting me know.

I tried to start a print in that video.

If that’s a start from a print, there could be a lot of bad startup GCODE occurring, and that’s usually more common than the Y axis being in the wrong place.

What slicer/version? If it’s not Cura Lulzbot Edition, posting the startup GCODE you’re using might also help.

It’s the octopus GCODE provided by the Lulzbot software (which I can post in a bit), and it is Cura Lulzbot edition.

The info screen for the printer says the firmware for the tool head is Pro Dual with FAME 3D and at the bottom it says “Marlin 2.0.0.144.5”

What version of Cura LE?

The version is 3.6.37. It seems like I cannot upload attachments since I am a new user, but here is the first chunk of the gcode:

;Generated by Cura LulzBot Edition GCodeWriter Version: 3.6.37
;Generated by Cura LulzBot Edition GCodeWriter Version: 3.6.22
;FLAVOR:Marlin
;TIME:4894
;Filament used: 4.41092m
;Layer height: 0.25
;Generated with Cura_SteamEngine 3.6.22
M82 ;absolute extrusion mode
;This G-Code has been generated specifically for LulzBot TAZ Pro with M175 Tool Head
M73 P0 ; clear LCD progress bar
M75 ; Start LCD Print Timer
G26 ; clear potential ‘probe fail’ condition
M107 ; disable fans
M420 S0 ; disable leveling matrix
G90 ; absolute positioning
M82 ; set extruder to absolute mode
G92 E0 ; set extruder position to 0
M140 S60.0 ; start bed heating up
G28 ; home all axes
G0 X145 Y187 Z156 F3000 ; move away from endstops
M117 Q - HE Heating Up… ; progress indicator message on LCD
M109 R140 ; soften filament before retraction
M117 Q - HE Retracting Filament… ; progress indicator message on LCD
G1 E-15 F75 ; retract filament
M117 Q - HE Moving to Position… ; progress indicator message on LCD
G1 X295 Y100 Z10 F3000 ; move above wiper pad
M109 R140 ; wait for extruder to reach wiping temp
M117 Q - HE Wiping Nozzle… ; progress indicator message on LCD
G1 Z0.5 ; lower nozzle
G1 X295 Y95 F1000 ; slow wipe

Also, it seems like the washer issue was fixed by letting the machine recalibrate itself by using “measure automatically” for the nozzle offset. There are a couple different issues going on though, so I may start a new thread.