I am new to 3D printing, however have been at my local hacker space and have used their machine (TAZ LulzBot), so I am using the setup that I've seen used over there.

Setup took a couple of mins.... It was all of 6 screws and then putting the included tape onto the print bed. On one of the corners of the heatbed I had to remove the washers because with them in place I was not able to set the height to a decent level. I used a thick sheet of paper to set the height (similar to business card stock thickness), once the paper was able to move freely under the nozzle 2 inches from each corner of the heatbed I left it alone. In the G-Code setup on Cura, I told it to use the temps of 218 for the extruder and 70 for the bed hoping I would get a decent print. Things seemed to work ok with this first print at 25% fill (probably overkill). The 1.75mm PLA being used was bought over at FRY's Electronics for $25 (1kg spool)

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