http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:413 I am not really all that happy with it. the inside was pretty stringy and infact on the lid, when I tried to remove the stringyness I think the entire inside bit got pulled out. Am I still running too hot? I think the base is a bit gloopier than the upper layers and …
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I wanted to show them the printer and how it could actually be useful. http://www.thingiverse.com/derivative:23478 Granted, 5 minutes in the wood shop would have made something just as functional as opposed to over an hour to print this out. It took me 4 tries before I got the first layer right. My print bed is …
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My printer's first print is a raised letter version of a programmer's first program. Display "Hello World". Print NotesPLA 3mm naturalextrusion 185C 30mm/s parims 60mm/s infillretraction 1mm 30mm/sbed 60Cslic3r 0.7 pronterface 0.7e sprinter In album View this post on Google+ .
I got it assembled within 48 hours of receiving it. Than the fun started … I had plugged all the motors backwords. This means that when I told the printer to move one way it went backwards. A simple fix. More annoyingly only 3 of the 4 sets ran well. Some trouble shooting narrowed it …
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My First day of building my MakerGear RepRap Prusa Mendel was a blast! I told work that I was going to be on MakeCation when it arrived so I was able to stay up late. It took me a while to clean up the LaBOREtory so I can assemble the kit, but once I got …
