Saturday 21 July 2012

Reprap gets going

After a lot of fiddling with settings in the slicer (slicer) this is the result.

Here are a couple of iPad stands, which need a cross bar the hold them up, but otherwise work well. The design comes from the web site thingyverse:

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And this stand along, but rather chunky design:

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UNFORTUNATELY

The hot end extruder has developed a leak, and hot plastic dribbles down the side, spoiling future prints. Later… this has been fixed, had to take it off the carriage and tighten it in the heat insulator tube. All now seems well and I have started printing again.

By the way here's the hobby area:

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