Adventures in 3D printing
I saw this in our local Home Sense and thought it looked like a great project for a laser cutter or 3D printer: First off I drew it up in Sketchup I made a plate that could be cut on my laser cutter (when it is finished) but ultimately scaled it down and printed the…
The TCT show was held at the NEC in Birmingham over 30th September and 1st October 2015, I attended on the last of the two days, arriving at about midday and expecting to be on my way home by about 14:00 – how wrong I was! I new in advance that most of the exhibitors…
My new E3D hot end clone turned up the other day for my Mini Kossel, this cost £7.49 ($11.60) with free P&P from ebay seller digital_store_2014. I will replace the thermistor with a ATC Semitec 104GT-2 so that it is a known quantity, rather than the complete unknown that came with the hot end. Based on…
I decided to simply bite the bullet and make all of the carbon tubes the same length, so I set up an end stop on my milling machine and held the shortest and one other tube in the milling vice, whilst I cut the longer one down with my Dremel. Next I made myself a…
Because I am trying out the Delrin profile slider from Motedis, I don’t really have any choice other than to design my own carriage. I used ideas and dimensions from a couple of other carriages on Thingiverse, but that is about where the similarity ends, my carriages were designed from the ground up to work with…
My order from Motedis arrived yesterday, this was mostly pieces for my CO2 laser cutter project, but I added in the pieces for my Mini Kossel build as well as it barely affected the overall cost of the order. Motedis include any left over pieces if you choose to have your items cut from standard 2, 3,…
One of the objects on Thingiverse that I have wanted to try for quite a while is the Maker Faire Print in Place Robot. This is a fairly tortuous print and really separates out the top end printers, if your printer is not accurately calibrated, then you can have issues with sections fusing together that…
I have been having issues with my printer for quite a while now – at some random point it will skip a step and cause the print to shift over to the left or right by about the width of the extruded filament. This could happen several times during a tall print and result in…
I have decided that my next printer will be a delta printer, and although I have come up with numerous designs, the most recent one seems to be verging towards that of a Kossel Mini, so why not simply build a variant of one of these and have done with it. Now I could buy…
I decided the quickest way to have the printer back up and functional again would be to glue the broken Y belt holder back together again, then just hope it holds long enough to print a replacement. I use Plastic Weld to glue PLA pieces together when necessary, it uses capillary action to reach all the…