The cheap IR thermometers are handy to have around for this stuff. Easy way to quickly check actual glass temp on the top and any other component you want to temp. On mine the heatbed thermistor...
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The cheap IR thermometers are handy to have around for this stuff. Easy way to quickly check actual glass temp on the top and any other component you want to temp. On mine the heatbed thermistor...
So I've built a Prusa I3 kit and will be keeping it for some time. But in the back of my mind I've been dreaming about designing and building my own largish delta. The big advantage is a stationary...
Learnt the hard way couple days ago that you need to pay attention to where you run the USB cable from the Rumba. Too close to a motor wire and you'll get some very unhappy and frustrating results...
That's what my wife tried. She ended up picking fiber glass out of the mat as it gets stuck in the cut the wheel makes in the mat. Cuts not to bad, but then it frays just like with the scissors if...
Response from MatterHackers:
I'm going to try making a model that has 1.2mm wide walls for my 0.4mm nozzle and see how this calibration technique works with that.
Found this which is quite interesting and answering a lot of my questions about layer height vs extrusion width with a given nozzle diameter.
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Same results with PETG, 0.8mm.
Also ran the e-steps calibration with PETG. First 100mm was under by 2.5mm. Adjusted on the LCD and ran again then I was over by 3.5mm. So I put it back to the...
Solved my issue. Apparently mattercontrol won't do anything the same size or smaller than the nozzle diameter. Model was 0.4mm walls, changed the nozzle diameter to 0.39 and it slices fine. So I...
Solved my issue. Apparently mattercontrol won't do anything the same size or smaller than the nozzle diameter. Model was 0.4mm walls, changed the nozzle diameter to 0.39 and it slices fine. So I...
So decided to try and fine tune my retraction and extrusion multiplier a bit more before I print the spare extruder. Tried to use this file.
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Before I get too far in printing things I guess I should print a spare Gregg's extruder. I'm unfamiliar with OpenSCAD, looking like I'm going to have to learn a bit about it through with how...
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Well after 4 tries I finally have a finished part that works. First one is the one that was 2x the size it should have been because I forgot I measured diameter but was entering...
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Working with partial circles of different sizes in SketchUp is a pain in the ass. Took me way longer than it should have to get working models. I think I've learned what not to do now...
I'm just using the extra 40mm fan Colin includes with the kit for now. I'll eventually get another one or make something new that will use a blower style fan.
Um, so ya, put the bracket on the right way and it clears the print bed :P
And I just realized as is the shroud will hit the build plated when Z is zero'd. Guess I'm going to be printing the shorter shroud or actually using the model I spent to much time in SketchUp fixing...
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Fan shroud printed quite well. Once I figured out I could remove one of the hotend mounting screws and pivot the fan to the back and then reinstall it I was able to mount the shroud without...
I got lucky in that the only thing I was missing was the hotend mounting plate and I was able to make my own. Still don't have the part from Colin yet. I'm also in the great white north. Should get...
When you get to putting the heat plate on the y-bed use 4 extra lock nuts (in my kit he supplied more than enough to do this). Install a screw and lock nut to the heat plate first and tighten down...
I'm not sure if I'm looking at this as a hobby or not. I'll be playing with it to get it printing as well as I can and to learn how to use it well. After that I wanted it as a tool. After the fan...
Saw that video before I even started building my printer. His cooling shroud is my next print. Although I'm not sure which one to print. Not sure if the short one will clear my v6 cooling fan or...
Guess my terminology is a bit wrong, I do get some stringingness and i'm not really concerned about that, it picks off easily. This is more full bits of an extrusion string that doesn't attach where...
Here's a pick of what has to be cut away in an IV3 12 for the thumb screws. This is the thinner of the two STL that printbus linked to.
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260C and a 1.02 multiplier gave much better results...
It falls apart after you cut it up. My wife quilts and couldn't get it to sew worth shit and it was giving her fiberglass slivers when she was trying to work with it. If you took a lot of time to...
Check out Tom's video's on firmware. Quickly gets you over the initial hump of being completely lost in what's what.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RbcMvhatjU&list=PLDJMid0lOOYnRCAdbFfzECor ...