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How reliable is this printer compared to other printers and how often does problems arrive

I am a complete beginner in the world of 3d printing.

Few days ago, I bought a new Creality K1 Max printer.

The first few items printed with Creality HyperPLA were phenomenal.

The 30mm 3D cube for calibration from the printer's internal memory was printed perfectly, the measurements are 30mm plus minus some small measurement error.

However, my heat bad was +0.70 and -0.25, so I tried to level it and print those little wheels for like manual leveling. When first batch of wheels came out, I was shocked how deformed was small holes. Looked like small egg :(

Then I designed one ring and tried to print it with some wheels, cylinders, etc.

My copy of the K1 Max prints circles that are not completely round, and on the side of the circle opposite to the seam, some strange artifact appears - the outer wall of the object is deformed, which can be seen in my pictures.

After short researching, I was that belts are mostly responsible for this problem. So I tried to reduce the tension of the belts. They were factory about 150 and 148Hz left and right. I turned both down to about 120 Hz and problem is now even a bit worse.

I used two apps, one Apple and one Android, both showed the same frequency, so I don't think I made a mistake there.

I really don't know what to do other? I wrote to Creality support but who know when they will answer. I need printer to print something circular right now and unfortunately I don't have time to waste :(

I would add that I thoroughly inspect my printer and all screews are tight and there not any visible deformations, malfunctions etc. Printer really looks great!

Thanks in advance for any help.

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