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Thanks for the kind words!

You are absolutely right of course. Once we left the house I thought of it and berated myself for such foolishness and half expected to see the FD hosing down my charred...

That thread was actually very helpful, thanks! I dismounted the fan and looked it over and remounted, the grinding noise seems to be gone now but I don't trust it. It will be replaced soon.

One thing I forgot: cheap power supplies. Terrible! I picked up a 12v power supply of an ebay seller I get arduino's from. It does what it's supposed to, I haven't verified voltage supplied under...

Now that I've built the printer and successfully printed something I'm ready to clean up all the wiring mess, mount the power supply where it ought to be and do all the other little things to make...

Pictures have been a bit sparse die to phone issues. I finally finished up the printer build after about 15 hours put in. A couple of little issues cropped up in the end run:

The cheap 12v power...

So several hours later I've made quite a bit more progress. Well over a foot of snow and work have kept me from doing much. I've made it to the extruder assembly. That is all done and taped up. All I...

Playing with the eccentric spacers I was able to see exactly what you guys were telling me and I was able to get rid of all the play. I also adjusted the other carriages and everything is moving very...

Put in another couple of hours and got the LCD put in, the Z motors and the threaded rods. Ran into a bit of a roadblock, none of the last 3 nuts would thread onto the rod smoothly. I almost gave up...

Yes, that's it. I will try adjusting that then and see if that tightens up things. Thanks!

Now I did run into one issue. I haven't really looked into it yet. After placing the Y bed in place and running the belt, I noticed that if i lightly grab the rear right hand corner it shifts up and...

I've put in about 7 hours so far, 3 hours last night and 4 today (had the day off). I've completed the frame up to the step where the threaded rods are put in. Nothing difficult so far, it's been a...

Actually printbus's thread was what pushed me to pick the makerfarm over the other printers i had been looking at. I can't think of how you could get more in depth! I'm open to all suggestions and...

Thanks for the good tips, I'm keeping a list of these little tips so when I get to them I know what to do. You guys are awesome.

Daniel

I'll be starting my build of a MakerFarm i3v 10" tonight. I'm very excited about it! I've always liked to tinker with stuff and I have a good bit of experience with wood working and general DIY but...