My new filament arrangement because putting on and taking off the filament on the back of the replicator was getting tedious. The rollers are a combination of Mano1979’s and gyronictonic’s spool holders. I prefer Mano1976’s by the way. Easier to slide around the table. I chose those ones becaues I found a good deal on 30 count 608 bearings online. The hard …
Flattening the bottom
Making flat bases or sides is important when 3D printing, but can be tedious at time. If you’re “eye balling” the measurements you may find your eye isn’t as accurate as you would otherwise hope. But there’s a simple way to insure that your side is flat and all points are on the same plate. Step 4 Import your STL model into …
How not do dehydrate your filament
I got a few rolls of filament, one from Protoparadigm (black) one from Makerbot (white) and both pre-swollen. 1.88m diameter plus or minus. Way too thick to use with my existing filament if I want to use both extruders at once to double output. The difference would mean the pieces from one would mate too tight or the other too loose. And …
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I’ve been putting this off because last time I took apart my print head… disaster struck. And while I knew that the two coldn’t be related I was still a bit gun-shy. However, after being unable to restock my chess sets for a day I decided it couldn’t put off my Makerbot maintenance any longer. So I disassembled my extruder head, got …
Battle of the Levelers
I managed to get my build plate level enough through trial and error, but I noticed when I was printing large batches of TARDIS rings that it wasn’t quite right. On the advice of Andrew Morrow I decided to buy the parts to build a leveling jig. Then I noticed there was a version that just snaps on to the …
Pretty good looking
0.15mm layer height. Nice and smooth. Takes longer to print, but not that much longer. I am very pleased with the details on small parts. I’m playing with making a set of these in 4 different colors then selling them in multicolored sets on my store. Same with the pegbots (development of which has continued today and hopefully will be added …
TARDIS rings flooding Texas
That is 50 TARDIS rings of various sides that will be going to the Dragon Con on August 30 to September 3rd. The Austin Brown Coats, a Firefly fan group turned non-profit charity organization approached me about selling the rings and so I thought I’d have a go at it. If you’re going to be in the Atlanta, Georgia area you can pick up a TARDIS …
Oh, that’s what it was for
From humble beginnings my latest model is almost ready to share on thingiverse. I’m pretty proud of these. But I’ve got to tweak the designs. Probably upload the designs to thingiverse this weekend. The origin of this idea was when I saw Wil Wheaton and friends play “get bit” on his web show Table Top. The game looked really cool …
3D Printing Tidbit 6 – Centering your prints
I had trouble with my prints being too far to the right and too far back on the build platform. There were 2 fixes that solved this problem. Solution 1 – Fixing the rest position.If your makebot is doing a slide backwards before it waits to warm up (like mine did) you need to fix the start.gcode. There are several …
You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance
After my Makerbot vs Cubify side-by-side I was really excited to see the actual throw down. This is actually a few month’s old but who cares, it’s new to me. Kathy: “Coloring book simplicity.” “In the cloud.” “Coloring book.” “Cloud.”Bre: “We share everything.” “We made this for everyone” 0:35 Oh, who won? That’s right, Makerbot. Put your plastic mail glove away.1:25 That …