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 …
Suddenly success!
After watching a Replicator G tips and tricks video I figured out how to raise the platform temperature and had my first successful print. A mini shark clip with an 8mm hex wrench on the back. Unfortunately I scaled down the shark and it may be too small to use to hold my pants away from my bike chain. But …
Prints 2-6
Good morning. Today I’m gonna print something… I hope. So the next step was to install Replicator G. I wanted to get as soon as I could into printing something cooler than the test prints. The install of Replicator G was… pretty good. Why is it trying to install in the My Documents folder? Why isn’t there a shortcut on …