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Re: Idea for a fire safety system. - 4 years ago

Sorry, I was being a bit flippant. I never do that sort of printing... but I do understand why people would, and why they might to leave them unattended. I would be unhappy to run mine inside the house if I needed to leave it to its own devices, and would probably leave it in the garage. A fire/smoke sensor over the printer would seem to be a minimum requirement.

by David J - Safety & Best Practices

Re: Idea for a fire safety system. - 4 years ago

I take a basic approach - I only run my printer(s) when I am nearby, usually when I'm in the same room and never more than 1 room away.

by David J - Safety & Best Practices

Re: Thingiverse taking it's last breath? - 4 years ago

Has anyone else started to get dodgy notifications from Thingiverse in the past week or so? I have seen comments on my designs along the lines of "I am very lonely and want to meet you..." or similar (many worse). They now seem to be wide open to rogue, malicious postings. I have had to turn off all email notifications from this site. I have gone from "It's an OK site", to "It's not working ve

by David J - General

Re: print quality awfull out of the blue - 4 years ago

This may be a silly suggestion - feel free to ignore it - but I have been caught out in the past with a delta, when one or two of the toothed pulley fastening screws worked loose on the motor shafts. Not enough to fall off or stop rotating, but enough to allow a few degrees of rotation, depending on where the flat of the shaft was in relation to the pull on the drive belt. This was a headache t

by David J - Printing

slic3r not running in Linux Mint 'Mate' with nouveau driver - 4 years ago

The back story is that I'm having significant issues with the nvidia drivers on my system, so I have temporarily swapped to the open-source nouveau windows drivers until I can resolve them. Everything is working well apart from slic3r, which refuses to run when I call it directly. When trying to start from the windows manager I get no response, so I called it from a terminal to see if I could s

by David J - Slic3r

Re: Thingiverse taking it's last breath? - 4 years ago

I wonder whether Makerbot realise that savvy people will take this company's lack of commitment to the website into account when considering the purchase of a new 3d printer. (probably not)

by David J - General

Re: Thingiverse taking it's last breath? - 4 years ago

I see that Thingiverse now has an ongoing problem with "search" - it's been broken for a couple of days... the site is even less usable now...

by David J - General

Re: Failed to connect - 4 years ago

It's always the last one, no matter what you're investigating...

by David J - Printing

Re: Thingiverse taking it's last breath? - 4 years ago

Ohmarinus, you are right in so many ways - I think that's why so many people (including myself) are frustrated by the recent changes. They took something that appeared to be working (I can't speak for behind the scenes) and, basically, they made it unusable. I do wonder if there's an element of pride and/or stubbornness in continuing with the new site layout - "we put a lot of effort into it an

by David J - General

Re: Improving the CoreXY mechanism on my G&C printer - 4 years ago

Thanks for that good info - gives me a few clues. Your links are good, except buying stuff from the USA means that I pay almost as much for shipping as for the items themselves! (I'm in the UK). That's supposing that the supplier will even ship to the UK. I can try those searches within Europe though, to see what's around. I've found the UK's HiWin distributor, but no prices showing on their

by David J - CoreXY Machines

Improving the CoreXY mechanism on my G&C printer - 4 years ago

I have a G&C CoreXY printer (Thingiverse) that is working acceptably well, apart from a small number of niggles. If I pay attention to slicing details I can produce a decent print in PLA, PLA+ and ABS. The frame is quite solid, and I am content with the bed and the Z mechanism for the time being. The biggest hurdle is that its CoreXY mechanism is a complete PITA to maintain. I have just ha

by David J - CoreXY Machines

Re: Thingiverse taking it's last breath? - 4 years ago

It's not in a good state of health - it's a crying shame as the old website just worked. It did its job, was nicely laid out, and showed a range of featured designs and new items on the front page. I recently tried to load a customizable design but the end result was just horrible and unusable. It was really simple too, with few variables. I am now getting far better service on Cults3d, wh

by David J - General

Re: Belt tightness? - 4 years ago

This design was a 3d-printed version of an all-metal design by someone called zelogik, and it does work (mostly). Though it is worth noting that the designer of my printer released a mostly metal version a year or so later! Most parts are extremely robust, but the flaw in the design of the part in question is that it isn't fully located in one direction, although it is in all the others. Now t

by David J - CoreXY Machines

Belt tightness? - 4 years ago

I have a CoreXY printer that's a few years old (this design: ). It has worked very well, but lately I'd noticed that the carriage was getting stiff to move around, especially in the Y axis, and print quality was deteriorating. So I decided to investigate. I found that the rods that run on each side for the Y axis were no longer parallel - I believe that this was due to the belt tension pulling t

by David J - CoreXY Machines