Originally Posted by
curious aardvark
I'm working on the assumption that the bearings will take up a little of the grease from the rods :-)
Well the blue tape finish is actually smoother than the top of the print which is never shiny.
So you get a better balanced item.
And I'm not printing models regularly or ever likely to print a lot of models - so shiny bottoms (lol) are not important to me.
But the tape doesn't leave a bad finish.
Just stick it on top of the lapton - pla will stick much more to the tape than to the kapton.
Get a multiroll deal from amazon. IT's bloody expensive in b&q, I can tell you that. But a roll can last a fair old while - long as you keep th bed as cold as possible.
MY next project is a 2 part case for a mini-itx motherboard. The rough and ready wooden box I'm currently using could do with an upgrade and working out a two part fix together thing is something I haven't done yet.
Mini-itx boards are 17cm square. So I've got the length - just need to chop it in half widthwise.
Pretty sure I can make it screwless as well.
Got a new board and a nice little quadcore processor. Hoping it'll speed up openscad a bit.