{"id":171,"date":"2009-12-07T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:51:43","slug":"attempting-to-print-my-first-mendel-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/archives\/171","title":{"rendered":"Attempting to print my first Mendel piece"},"content":{"rendered":"

After printing the K block (see my previous post) with the RepStrap, I immediately went ahead attempting to print my first Mendel part. I ambitiously chose the pinch-wheel-bracket-NEMA17_604-bearing_1off.stl file, which is the green part of the following picture:<\/p>\n

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The green part is what I need to print<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve had varying amounts of success and failure. I have several aborted attempts. Since these were aborted, most of these are just the bottom part of the above piece:<\/p>\n

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You leave the thing alone for one minute...<\/p><\/div>\n

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Multiple levels of failure<\/p><\/div>\n

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Almost good enough!<\/p><\/div>\n

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This was a very fast print, but it almost wrecked the extruder<\/p><\/div>\n

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The bottom of one of the failures before clearing away the raft<\/p><\/div>\n

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The one on the right is closest. I took a spare ruined PTFE rod and stuck it in the piece on the left (and then fed a piece of ABS filament through it) for illustration purposes.<\/p><\/div>\n

So, the above one on the right is the closest I’ve come to a functional piece. Worst case, I’d drill through the top, sand off the rough parts, and make it work, but it’d feel better to print it correctly. Clearly I need to do some kind of configuration for this device that I haven’t done (I thought we’d calibrated it but I’ll try again).<\/p>\n

Video:<\/p>\n

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After printing the K block (see my previous post) with the RepStrap, I immediately went ahead attempting to print my first Mendel part. I ambitiously chose the pinch-wheel-bracket-NEMA17_604-bearing_1off.stl file, which is the green part of the following picture: I’ve had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myreprap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}