Qidi Tech 1 - Replicator 1 clone

[Talon 3D]

Cool.
I will see about doing one.

My OctoPi is toast. That update that I cannot ID has broken its functionality.
All I remember seeing it is said something about it fixing file names. For some reason since this update it pauses and kills prints every time from OctoPi. If I do SD card it works. I have even created a brand new OctoPi image and set it up. Same dam errors.
Says waiting to unpause from LCD I click resume on LCD panel it starts and does it again a couple mins later. Print gets ruined and it never finishes.
I am no pleased to say the least.

It's just an item from Thiniverse, "elliptical gear". It spins pretty cool.

[DaveB]

Well, that was a rather dull interlude. Hope everything stays up.

[Merijeek]

So, to get my plugged throat fixed I had to (eventually) take a hex wrench, heat it up with a lighter, and jam it through.

Whee!

So, hopefully I'm back in business. Can anyone suggest a decent clip system/object to hold the damned door open for me? The first one I made just snapped. And I didn't like it much anyway.

[DaveB]

So, to get my plugged throat fixed I had to (eventually) take a hex wrench, heat it up with a lighter, and jam it through.

Whee!

So, hopefully I'm back in business. Can anyone suggest a decent clip system/object to hold the damned door open for me? The first one I made just snapped. And I didn't like it much anyway.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1697406

[Talon 3D]

I use that hinge set too. Really nice when I'm going from ABS to PLA.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1697406

[wirlybird]

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1697406

Great hinges.

[Talon 3D]

Glad you got it cleared.
This is the door clip I use.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1667238

So, to get my plugged throat fixed I had to (eventually) take a hex wrench, heat it up with a lighter, and jam it through.

Whee!

So, hopefully I'm back in business. Can anyone suggest a decent clip system/object to hold the damned door open for me? The first one I made just snapped. And I didn't like it much anyway.

[JSensebe]

Can anyone suggest a decent clip system/object to hold the damned door open for me? The first one I made just snapped. And I didn't like it much anyway.

I took the advice of someone else on this thread and simply tightened the middle tension screws on the hinges to keep mine up. Works great.

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[Syd_Khaos]

So, to get my plugged throat fixed I had to (eventually) take a hex wrench, heat it up with a lighter, and jam it through.

Whee!

So, hopefully I'm back in business. Can anyone suggest a decent clip system/object to hold the damned door open for me? The first one I made just snapped. And I didn't like it much anyway.

Here is my door clips....super simple but work like a champ.



For cleaning PTFE tubes I would suggest getting the proper sized drill bit. The issue with using a hex-wrench is that it is different shape than the tube, you could potentialy deform the tube by cleaning it like that.
A drill bit is round like the tubes interior is supposed to be. Not to mention a brill bit is designed to remove material from a hole, the channels in the bit will help alot to that end.

[Merijeek]

Oh, by that point the PTFE tube had been removed and I still had plastic coming down from the metal throat and into the hot end.

I just didn't want to drill and end up scratching up the insides of the metal and thereby make things even worse.