Monthly Archives: January 2010

More progress, another extruder fail, and a full blown crisis…

As the title of this post says, I made some more progress, I had another extruder failure, and then I had a huge, full blown crisis. In order: Progress. Here are some pictures of the Idler Bracket assembly: I’d ordered … Continue reading

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33 pieces of bot on the wall..

The countdown continues! 33 pieces left to print!! (out of 106) (To the impatient – make sure you at least see the last video in this post, but really, you should be reading/watching all of it. 🙂 ) Before I … Continue reading

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Pain and Promise

“Aagghh!!!” That’s one way to describe the past few days (Friday through Sunday) of my RepRap experience. PLA has been an extreme pain. My first sign of major problems was in trying to print the z-tensioner piece out of PLA. … Continue reading

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