Comments for Just Another RepRap

Comment on Four, er, um, TEN months.. part 3 of ? by Triffid Hunter

Triffid Hunter — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:49:42 +0000

Let me guess, the barrel pushed out of the PTFE?

This is a known problem of PTFE and is related to the fact that the material creeps under load.

PTFE will /always/ do that at some point.

If you want an insulator that doesn’t do this, you need PEEK, or a stainless steel barrel with integrated thermal break like the new makergear one or the arcol v4

Comment on Four months.. part 2 of ? by Triffid Hunter

Triffid Hunter — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:46:53 +0000

Hi,

Try hobbing your bolt with an M5 or M6 tap instead of M3, trust me it works way better.

Also, looks like your temperature is way too high. I print at about 5c above where my nozzle doesn’t ooze. You need a really good hobbed bolt to print that cool!

Comment on Laptop, Organization, Remote Printing, More Things, and.. Fail. by RoTorIT

RoTorIT — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:48:46 +0000

Hey dude.

I see you have some problems here and there…..

If you want… we are quite a few people in the RepRap IRC chat channel at all times that may help you.

Just common in and share your experiences and maybe ask for help from other RepRap people.

join the RepRap IRC at irc://chat.freenode/#reprap

or follow the IRC link in the reprap wiki

Comment on Stumbling, learning to walk, but not walking yet.. by spline hobs

spline hobs — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:11:10 +0000

I’ve got this haunting feeling that time is creeping up on me, and that I’ll have to rebuild the heater barrel again someday..

Comment on Four months.. part 1 of ? by ross

ross — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:51:40 +0000

We’ve followed you this far, don’t stop blogging now! Are you (hopefully) too busy printing?
Can’t wait for the next update.

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by alex

alex — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:56:35 +0000

why does’nt your machine print out smoothly? This is the only one Ive seen print this way for so long…

Comment on Printing again, reclaimed my vertical space, and X-axis woes/triumph! by chicago bulls jerseys

chicago bulls jerseys — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:18:58 +0000

Where by does you locate this template?

Comment on Printing again, reclaimed my vertical space, and X-axis woes/triumph! by Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:44:42 +0000

Awesome post, I am building my first mendel right now and it can be very intimidating starting from scratch. posts like yours are great for anticipating problems and developing troubleshooting methods.

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by Larry Keegan

Larry Keegan — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:52:13 +0000

great work Jeff ! a fitting celebration after all your efforts.
wish you continued successes. Dad

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by jkeegan

jkeegan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:06:41 +0000

…aaaaaaand, today I found out I’m moving offices. The one I’m moving to has a cube-like partition in it, but it’s still an office, not a cube. Still, >:(

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by nuttzy

nuttzy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:40:26 +0000

Congrats!!!

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by jkeegan

jkeegan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:49:29 +0000

It’s gonna have one “vitamin” part that you have to add, obviously. I’m thinking it’ll be a small strip of plastic with a nameplate on it, which you then glue to the outside of a purchased Glock.

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by jkeegan

jkeegan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:46:31 +0000

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by jkeegan

jkeegan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:45:23 +0000

Hehe, you thinking of this kid?

Can’t say that I remember what it was like to sit in a cube..

I’m thinking a hovercar would be nice.

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by Todd

Todd — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:10:07 +0000

Congratulations! What’s your next goal? Maybe you should take a custom-outfitted Spartan model from Halo Reach and try to make that. It’d look good sitting in a cube.

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by Jon keegan

Jon keegan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:01:22 +0000

Congrats brother! Well done sir! Now get started printing out my Glock.

Comment on Alcohol-tight MiniMug! DONE!! by Spacexula

Spacexula — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:07:14 +0000

OMG, congratulations!

I have never seen anyone in this community try that hard, for that long, to get a mug.

You are a beast.

Comment on Printing again, reclaimed my vertical space, and X-axis woes/triumph! by nuttzy

nuttzy — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:01:34 +0000

I hadn’t stopped by for a little while. Amazing progress!!!! That gear looks so good. Even before that, even printing ugly pieces to make the spindle seemed so useful. Very exciting stuff. This truly is an achievement, congrats!!

Comment on It helps to actually have infill! by St0nkingByte

St0nkingByte — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:05:03 +0000

Ak! I had the same problem. A couple evenings wasted scratching my head and trying to make perfect prints with no infill. Ugh.

I’ve tweaked the RepRap host software docs here:

http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Mendel_User_Manual:_Host_Software#The_Extruder_tabs

Please feel free to improve upon my explanation.

Comment on Printing again, reclaimed my vertical space, and X-axis woes/triumph! by bbriggstkd

bbriggstkd — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:37:51 +0000

I read that far too. I think I may be having some of the same X axis problems so I appreciate you sharing. It gives me some things to look into.