Category: 3d Printing

  • The Paint Rack – Completed

    The Paint Rack – Completed

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    Halfling13

    The printer has been running for long hours, but I finally have the overall paint rack completed.  Each section holds 20 paint bottles, and ran on the printer for about 25 hours.  For the back row, I customized a riser piece to match the design, and bring them up to the same slope – each…

  • Magic Tournament – Trophy update

    Magic Tournament – Trophy update

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    Halfling13

    With our upcoming Magic the Gathering Tournament, scheduled for November 21, I need to finalize my plans for the victory trophy.  I posted a picture many weeks ago of the progress with painting – this is a 3d printed model that I am hand-painting.  However, I have been procrastinating since then and only recently worked…

  • Printer Update

    Printer Update

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    Halfling13

    Upgrades are in place, and the printer is (fingers crossed) working reliably and well – the past several days I have been finishing up a larger project printing paint bottle racks for storage of my painting set.  It requires several trays, and each tray ends up printing for about 36 hours, which is certainly a…

  • Fan success

    Fan success

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    Halfling13

    The replacement fan arrived on time, was a simple install, and quite happily appears to have solved my latest issues.  Heat creep no longer appears to be a problem – the extruder motor is comfortably cool, and after a quick re-leveling of the bed, the printer is functional again.  I am re-running a larger print…

  • A dead fan

    A dead fan

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    Halfling13

    My earlier post regarding the all-metal hotend was a bit premature.  In truth, the metal hotend and parts are working great.  In some ways, perhaps a bit too great.  As a result, I have been getting what I have concluded to be a lot of heat-creep into the extruder motor itself.  I have tried a…

  • All Metal Hotend

    All Metal Hotend

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    Halfling13

    Received and managed to install the new Micro Swiss All-Metal Hotend for my 3d printer, an effort which was relatively simple.  Most of the challenge was really just managing the tiny screws that hold the printer together, and rewiring everything back in the correct place.  The included URL from the vendor provided up to date…

  • Filament Choices

    Filament Choices

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    Halfling13

    As I have been getting further and further into 3d printing, I have been experimenting with a number of different colors and brands of filament.  In general, I have not found much significant different in quality for PLA between options, but for consistency, I have been tending towards the same ones each time.  If curious,…

  • Printer repairs

    Printer repairs

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    Halfling13

    Ran into another problem with the printer over the weekend, when it started having challenges printing reliably.  In each case, it would run for 15-30 minutes, and then jam, and stop extruding.  After cancelling, I could clear the jam and get the extruder going again, but with the next attempt, the same would happen.