New to Reprap and 3d printing
Posted by LDIsection08
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Re: New to Reprap and 3d printing April 23, 2015 01:53PM |
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dmould
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LDIsection08
thanks for the tip, I run out to home depot(hardware store) and got a small drill bit kit. I drill the printed part a bit to allow the screw to go thru smoothly.
Next time you go to the hardware store, maybe pick up a set of inexpensive needle files, which I find invaluable for trimming printed parts when you need a perfect fit.
Dave
DItto, there are hobbyist packs of ~6 different small files, they're invaluable.
and be sure to get metric drill bits. I live in the US and they're hard to find. But trust me, the inch sizes are not 'close enough'
Also, no question is too stupid or obvious to ask, the people on this forum will be more than glad to help you out if you have any issues.
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Re: New to Reprap and 3d printing April 28, 2015 09:49AM |
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dmould
Another major issue with the Ormerod 2 has been poor connection to the bed heater board, as it is not a good idea to rely on the bolts to carry the current. A poor connection will cause overheating of the connectors.
Depending on when you bought your kit, you may not have this style bed heater. v528.4 and above have a better design with tabs and push over connectors. Mine (shipped in mid feb 2015) has the newer style. Hopefully this resolved the issue
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Re: New to Reprap and 3d printing April 28, 2015 11:36PM |
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shadow651
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dmould
Another major issue with the Ormerod 2 has been poor connection to the bed heater board, as it is not a good idea to rely on the bolts to carry the current. A poor connection will cause overheating of the connectors.
Depending on when you bought your kit, you may not have this style bed heater. v528.4 and above have a better design with tabs and push over connectors. Mine (shipped in mid feb 2015) has the newer style. Hopefully this resolved the issue
yeah I got my printer on 4/21/2015 it has the latest updates, model is 528.4. My problem now is connecting, my computer can see the board meaning in Device manager there is a "Andrino Due" listed. It is using COM8 I am kinda stuck following the Doc files on main site is not all that great for the software setup.
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Re: New to Reprap and 3d printing April 29, 2015 12:16AM |
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LDIsection08
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dmould
Another major issue with the Ormerod 2 has been poor connection to the bed heater board, as it is not a good idea to rely on the bolts to carry the current. A poor connection will cause overheating of the connectors.
Depending on when you bought your kit, you may not have this style bed heater. v528.4 and above have a better design with tabs and push over connectors. Mine (shipped in mid feb 2015) has the newer style. Hopefully this resolved the issue
yeah I got my printer on 4/21/2015 it has the latest updates, model is 528.4. My problem now is connecting, my computer can see the board meaning in Device manager there is a "Andrino Due" listed. It is using COM8 I am kinda stuck following the Doc files on main site is not all that great for the software setup.
I had a bit of difficulty getting the Arduino software to communicate to the duet; I did eventually get a powered USB hub, and I was able to get it to work... kind of....enough know the duet was functional. I was never really able to get the duet to reliably respond to the arduino software over USB..... it seemed that the duet receives every command but the Arduino console didn't 'hear' the responses sometimes. I'm sure it's something funky with my computer setup, maybe USB 3.0 doesn't like the duet.
Still, you should probably run through this duet connection problem troubleshooting list, [reprappro.com]
If you still can't get it to work after that someone out here on the forums can probably help you.
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