I took my printer apart to try to figure out why the bed isn't level. The Y rods where sitting crooked. I popped them out, rolled them on the counter-top to make sure they where still straight and put them back together. It's better, but still not perfect. I think the Y rod mounts are …
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A week or so ago, I designed a Soda Bottle SIP irrigation block to keep all my planters watered automatically. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20753 Now all I needed was a bunch of soda bottles cut to make the planters. I tried a knife resting on a stack of books, and that worked pretty well, but not great. I …
I made myself sick on accident from ABS fumes. I had set up a 120CFM computer case fan to blow the fumes out the window through a cardboard tube. I had changed my fan from 12v to 5v trying to stabilize the PSU voltage and shut that noisy fan up! This backfired. As it now …
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I even uploaded it to thingiverse! http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19197 It took me a couple of tries to get it to export correctly out of Google Sketchup. I made it as a solid object and 'cheated' by printing it with no solid layers or infill so it just did the perimeter. This is done in PLA (which is …
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I finally got the printer running to the level where I felt confident running another copy of this part off. Let me tell you, it's a cool item! The patterning from printing make the seam between the two halves near invisible when printed in clear PLA. This particular version is done at 150% size of …
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