In honor of Mother’s Day yesterday I let my Replicator rest and focused some attention on my wife. Love you, Honey. So no prints from yesterday to report. However, I did skip reporting on two prints from a couple days ago. So here’s that report. Don’t go getting your hopes up too much. I printed another set of pawns. This …
Wrapping up the first week.
Now that I’ve gained some confidence in my Replicator’s printing ability I had it running all day today. Unfortunately the attempts at making the last test pieces for my chess set ended in… …fail. But for some reason my elusive chess set was my only failures. Everything else worked out just fine. I’ve been iterating a design for a clip …
With rings on her fingers…
This morning it was all about the rings That’s a diamond ring for my daughter, a negative Hylian Shield ring for my other son, and a TARDIS ring for me. The diamond ring had some significant overhang and it caused some problems, but overall it was good enough for a little girl. I blame it more on the cold of …
Of queens and pawns
UPDATE: If you are interested in purchasing these I am making as many available as I can and selling them on etsy! Also last night I printed these: By the way, the replicators lighting system really does make it the best place to take pictures in my dark garage. I was particularly excited by the pawns because I printed all four of …
HEY! LISTEN!
With the 2 stubby ring bases printed that’s 22 prints, 9 successful ones. My ratio is on the rise. My son’s pretty happy with his birthday gift fresh off the replicator. Now his brother wants one in opposite colors. I think I can do that. It feels real good when a print works. Still, I haven’t successfully printed a chess …
A night of trials, alot of prints
Last evening I think I finally cracked it! From left to right: (1) A halted print that was supposed to be scaled down. (2) A failed action chess king. (3) Another failed action chess king. (4) A moderately successful dual extrusion print. (5) Successfully scaled down parts attached to my alot from last time. For the two failed kings there’s …
Prints 12 – 14
Print 12 was another tire lever, this time in white, that had even more curl in it than the black one, but otherwise was successful. For Print 13 I wanted to try dual extruding with the raft turned off. The model would be my very own alot, and the result was… mixed. The first time I didn’t check either of …
Print 11 – Tire Lever
It’s amazing what a little reinstall will do… sort of. I wiped out the ReplicatorG folder and my .replicatorg folder in %appdata% to be sure I wouldn’t have any lingering effects of my endless tinkering, then reinstalled ReplicatorG. Then I ran G-Code on the tire lever, manually edited the g-code to increase the build platform to 115 C and the …
Print 10, failure
In an attempt to follow the advice given me I re-leveled the platform and raise the temperature another 5 degrees on both the platform and the extruder. Then I tried to build a bike tire leveler. What the…. So I tried again, this time I watched it, and somehow I managed to prevent the raft from printing. In all my …
Prints 8 and 9, Help!
My next print was so specific to my needs that I didn’t think it would be worth posting it on Thingiverse, but it was actually the very first thing I tried modeling for 3D print even before the Chinese Chess set. However, not having a 3D printer until now I haven’t had a chance to see if I managed to …