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Monthly Archives: May 2011
‘Out of Filament’ jam-up
I was trying to use up the last coils of P400 on a spool running some small parts. The filament ran out before the job finished, and I ended up dashing in early in the morning to try and get … Continue reading
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More clamps
Again, I ran another platter of clamps without any problems. I won’t be posting anymore of the clamp runs, as I’m trying to use up some partial spools of P400 material, and I want to try postprocessing some parts with … Continue reading
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3rd time a charm
Finally on the third try I got a finished platter of Wade’s extruder parts: There’s some creative support structures on the one part put in by Insight. I’m hoping the gears will work given my Y Axis backlash. I forgot … Continue reading
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Friday the 13th bad run
Well, the second run of the Wade’s Extruder parts came to abrupt end after 5AM on Friday the 13th: My sending computer had the ‘Blue Screen of Death’ when I came in to retrieve the parts, but found them only … Continue reading
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Latest parts
After almost a month of not running anything, I fired up the FDM1650 Tuesday and started a run of clamps. They were finished on Wednesday and looked pretty good: The last time I had tried to run these, the run … Continue reading
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