{"id":2200,"date":"2011-04-19T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2011-04-19T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:53:04","slug":"four-months-part-1-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/archives\/2200","title":{"rendered":"Four months.. part 1 of ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 3rd I posted my celebration about finally creating an alcohol-tight minimug, and I haven’t posted anything since then. That leaves four months worth of stuff to talk about. It’s a huge amount to blog, so I’ll be breaking it up into multiple parts, and I’ll post the parts on different days.<\/p>\n

Stuff From Before My MiniMug Post<\/h3>\n

For my January 3rd post I jumped ahead and immediately posted the pic of me celebrating my minimug. I still have stuff from before then to post.. Here’s the best I can do from memory and piecing it all together from pictures (as always, there are a lot).<\/p>\n

First of all, I’d fixed my X-axis problem as I said two posts ago, but little did I know that I had a subtle Y-axis problem too (that I just hadn’t noticed, because of my large X-axis problem). But I hadn’t figured that out yet. All I knew was that my horrible X-axis problem was solved, and parts looked way better.<\/p>\n

So, I printed some parts (which, again, still weren’t perfect, but I didn’t fully realize that yet).<\/p>\n

A calibration piece (lit by a flashlight I loosely attached to the frame):<\/p>\n

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There’s a subtle y-axis problem with that print (which I’ll get to below), but I wasn’t focused on that problem yet – I considered this print a success.
\nEncouraged by that relative success, I decided to try printing better quality versions of the filament spindle that I’d created before.<\/p>\n

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Compare that to this previous print from two posts ago<\/A>, before I’d fixed my X-axis:<\/p>\n

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Here was video of it printing:<\/p>\n