I am fairly new to 3D printing and have my printer in the living room of my small house and have already determined that it will get an enclosure for a number of reasons: 1. 'noise reduction'. I find the noise, particularly over hours and hours, to be very annoying. 2. The smell of the ABS doesn't seem noticeable but it spreads throughout the house and gives me a headache. 3. I keep my houseby DianneB - General
Quoteregpye Easiest and best way to clean a nozzle is to unscrew it from the hotend and with a stiff wire hold the nozzle in a gas flame and burn the crap out of it. Don't let it get red hot, just enough to burn out the plastic. Wash it in water and your are good to go. Unfortunately the hot end on my printer has the heater and thermistor directly mounted on the hot end so burning it out wouldnby DianneB - Reprappers
I have decided to put a friction drive between the hobbed bolt and the drive gear to limit the amount of torque the extruder can exert. By adjusting the friction just below what it takes to strip the filament I can eliminate repeated cleanings. By placing marks on the gear and the friction plate, I can also tell if the clutch is slipping while running. That will allow finding the maximum flow ratby DianneB - Reprappers
After spending most of a day troubleshooting I figured out that my nozzle wasn't plugging but that the software was trying to push the filament too fast. I upped the temperature from 230C to 260C and turned the feed rate and flow rate down to 68% and got through a 4 hour print with only minor defects. Don't know why that change was needed after the first 10 hours of printing but with the changeby DianneB - Reprappers
I am printing with 3mm ABS. On the last print, it printed most of the first layer, about 15 minutes, before it chewed up the filament again. I ground a small watchmaker's screwdriver to 0.45 mm and 'reamed' the nozzle before this print. Lasted a bit longer but still crapped out.by DianneB - Reprappers
I have a EckerTech RepRap printer that I just built. After some problems getting the printer working, I had everything running fine yesterday and printed for a total of 11 hours, four different prints, but on the last print, the extruder started giving me trouble. Early in the print, it stopped extruding. The hobbed bolt had chewed out the side of the filament. I cleaned the nozzle, cleaned theby DianneB - Reprappers
This has been an interesting conversation and at a most appropriate time! I have just finished building my RepRap printer and completed the first test print and was thinking about building a sound-deadening enclosure for it but hadn't considered the possibility of fire. Based on this discussion, I have decided to incorporate a smoke detector with a relay output inside the enclosure and use the rby DianneB - Safety & Best Practices
I am just finishing up a EckerTech RepRap with a RAMPs 1.4, and Repetier V0.95F. On my desktop with Windows 7 everything seems to work fine but when I switch to my laptop running Windoes XP, everything works EXCEPT I can't "home" the Z axis - the other axis home okay. I am brand new in RepRap but been around computers for a long time and I don't understand why just this one bug when switching Oby DianneB - Reprappers