overnight print

hi everyone,
did a print overnight last night - was a bit nervous letting it run by itself

i changed the setting in repetier to turn off the heater and motors when the job finsihed.
i made sure there was plenty of filiment available (haven't got a fancy holder yet).

is there any other things you normally do to get a good print / stop the house burning down ?

regards,
roger

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Prusa 'Explorer' (3dStuffMaker), GEN6, J-head Mk III-B, Bowden Extruder, Marlin 1.0.0 RC2, Repitier-Host V0.84 and Slic3r 0.9.8, PLA. Live at Victoria, Australia.

1. Keep the area around your printer free of clutter. Especially flamables (duh!)
2. Invest in a smoke detector, and fire extinguisher.
3. Keep the extinguisher accessible, but not too close to that which might catch fire.
4. Sleep under the table.

ahhh yes - my wife has already told me to go sleep out in the office with that bloody thing

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Prusa 'Explorer' (3dStuffMaker), GEN6, J-head Mk III-B, Bowden Extruder, Marlin 1.0.0 RC2, Repitier-Host V0.84 and Slic3r 0.9.8, PLA. Live at Victoria, Australia.

I run my 'experimental' printer at home on top of a cast iron stove surrounded by concrete floor/walls.

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www.Fablicator.com

Print from an SD card. I print overnight quite a bit especially for the 4 hour or more prints and before I started printing from SD card my computer would either randomly crash or decide to do an update and reboot mid way

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Richmond, New Zealand
Thingiverse ~ YouTube

I've had windows reboot due to updates a few times halfway into a full plate print or something else usually printed overnight. Such a waste of plastic! I've since turned off automatic reboot for updates, but printing from an SD card is a smart thing to do.

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Charles S.
Software Engineer
Prusa Mendel I2, RAMPS 1.4, Marlin 1.0 R2, Pronterface, Slic3r

Why not print from a $35 Raspberry Pi instead? More convenient than continually inserting and removing SD cards IMO.

Andy

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/10/2012 05:28PM by ajayre.

hi guys
can you explain what an sd card is/does?
roger

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Prusa 'Explorer' (3dStuffMaker), GEN6, J-head Mk III-B, Bowden Extruder, Marlin 1.0.0 RC2, Repitier-Host V0.84 and Slic3r 0.9.8, PLA. Live at Victoria, Australia.

It stands for Secure Digital and allows you to print without connection to computer.

No idea what a raspberry pi is but it sound delicious.
An SD card is just a memory stick or ram-disk. You copy your STL onto the SD card then plug it into the card port on your controller and set the controller to print from that.

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Richmond, New Zealand
Thingiverse ~ YouTube

well did all of the above and left my print to run overnight.......
came back this morning and as i approached the office door (office is outside connected to my shed - very civilised) I could hear the machine still printing, Ohhh ohhh it can't be still printing after 6 hours. It was my wife on the treadmill (didn't even know she knew we had a treadmill).
Not sure who got the biggest fright/surprise.

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Prusa 'Explorer' (3dStuffMaker), GEN6, J-head Mk III-B, Bowden Extruder, Marlin 1.0.0 RC2, Repitier-Host V0.84 and Slic3r 0.9.8, PLA. Live at Victoria, Australia.

rogerw Wrote:
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> ... It was my wife on the
> treadmill (didn't even know she knew we had a
> treadmill).

I'm guessing your wife doesn't read this forum?

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Richmond, New Zealand
Thingiverse ~ YouTube

no she doesn't . doesn't normally come into MY office either. will only last a week....

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Prusa 'Explorer' (3dStuffMaker), GEN6, J-head Mk III-B, Bowden Extruder, Marlin 1.0.0 RC2, Repitier-Host V0.84 and Slic3r 0.9.8, PLA. Live at Victoria, Australia.