[sudo-discuss] sudoroom 3D printer back online!
Jake
jake at spaz.org
Sun Dec 22 14:11:12 PST 2013
no! please you do it. i spent hours and hours on the machine last night,
and everything i have to say about it is in my post below.
thank you
-jake
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013, Steve Berl wrote:
> Can you please update the wiki page for the 3D printer with its current status.
> Thanks,
>
> -steve
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> last night I replaced the hotend on the sudoroom type-a-machine 3d printer.
>
> after that i spent a bit of time attempting to print and kept running into problems, which i'll list.
>
> it seems that some of the PLA we have that came from type A machines is clearly labeled to be printed at 190-220 degrees! I have always used
> 185, but i guess this is a new formula. When i set it to 205 it still seemed too cold, so i ended up using 220.
>
> You should set the temperature in the slic3r before you export your gcode. There are other ways to do it, but if you know them you don't need
> me to tell you.
>
> the other issue is that our spools of filament are dusty! it's gross. And all that dust goes into the extruder and jams it up. The nozzle
> is only 0.35mm diameter! so clean the filament spool first (DO NOT GET PLA WET) and keep a dust-catcher on the filament before it goes into
> the machine. I put one on there last night.
>
> something like this would be fine, if we had the right foam, but for now i just cut some acrylic fabric and wrapped it around the filament
> with some copper wire to hold it on there. It should work but check it once in a while, or when changing spools.
>
> someone had put tape over the old tape on the platform in a very chaotic and haphazard way. Also there were a few melted spots on the
> platform where a hot extruder had been rammed into the platform and created a little vulcano.
>
> I carved the raised spots off the platform with a flat-edged blade, leveling them off, and then i re-arranged the tape properly so there is
> NO OVERLAPPING OF TAPE and only one layer of tape. It is necessary to maintain the platform any time you're trying to print if it is not
> already good to go.
>
> I didn't re-level the platform so if someone else wants to do that go ahead. It seemed a bit higher on the left than on the right. I like
> to get a perfectly cylindrical object and adjust the z-height so it just barely rolls under the extruder tip, and then try in four corners of
> the platform to compare the height.
>
> now join the sudo-prints mailing list!
>
> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-prints
>
> -jake
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