Showing posts with label reprap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reprap. Show all posts
Friday, 31 December 2010

Frequency limit

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I currently do my infill on Mendel at 36mm/s. The machine can go faster but the extruder flow rate maxes out at about 40mm/s when extruding ...
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Tip top top layer tip

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When I first started printing on my Mendel I found it difficult to get the top layer infill solid and meeting the edges. It behaved differen...
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Round robin

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I have been making a few small tweaks to my host software to improve quality recently. One such tweak is the order in which islands of an ob...
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Sunday, 26 December 2010

Crackers

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My wife has assembled her own Christmas crackers from kits in recent years. She puts in much better gifts than even the more expensive comm...
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Saturday, 18 December 2010

101 Mendels

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From March up until a week ago I have run my Mendel as close to 24/7 as I can and it has printed 101 Mendels, with a bit of help from HydraR...
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Sunday, 4 January 2009

New year, new extruder?

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The RepRap design has always aimed to be cheap and easy to make from readily available materials. What I desire though is good performance a...
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Saturday, 27 December 2008

Simple experiment

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Inspired by Demented Chihuahua's extruder work , I repeated his experiment using what was left of my old heater. I mounted it in a 30mm ...
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Friday, 26 December 2008

New Materials

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HydraRaptor's extruder suddenly stopped working in the middle of a build a few weeks ago. I tried upping the temperature and pushing the...
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Monday, 23 June 2008

Alternative alignment

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The Darwin build instructions recommend squaring up the frames by adjusting the corner blocks to get the correct length stubs sticking, out...
Monday, 19 May 2008

Stepping up production

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As HydraRaptor seems to be working so well with ABS I decided to put my high temperature extruder design on hold and go for making a set of ...
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Monday, 21 April 2008

Fun with Python and G code

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The current RepRap host software is a monolithic Java program that imports STL files, lets you place the objects to be made on the table, sl...
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Sunday, 24 February 2008

A riveting read

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A recent modification to the RepRap extruder is the addition of two 3mm pins through the clamp and the PTFE insulator to prevent the PTFE s...