I ran up to Pasadena yesterday to drop in at Deez Maker for their monthly meetup. It was a nice little get together and some people would drop in with their printers looking for help. I met up with a guy out of Palmdale who had a Printrbot Jr and was trying to get it to print. I worked with him for a bit to calibrate it and level the bed and he was off and running. Overall it was a relaxed enby trsills - California / Southern California RepRap Usergroup
Thx, I'll put it down on the calendar and try to make it. I'm in N. OC so it's not far.by trsills - California / Southern California RepRap Usergroup
You've kind of got an apples to oranges comparison going on here IMO given the cost and feature differential. What I can tell you though is that as a new Simple owner, which was my first printer, I'd outgrown it within the first 3 weeks. The build space is frustratingly small. But that was ok for me as I went into it knowing the price point and with the intention of learning. By the 4th weekby trsills - General
Very cool, thanks for posting about Deezmaker, had no idea the place existed.by trsills - California / Southern California RepRap Usergroup
I just jumped into 3D printing with a Printrbot Simple and I'm located in N. Orange County. I'd be keen on doing a meet up for knowledge transfer.by trsills - California / Southern California RepRap Usergroup
I totally agree. I know the wiki has some examples, but I'm also new to the printing scene and been learning the hard way how to read the prints and troubleshoot them. I've started documenting them for my reference.by trsills - RepRap magazine
FWIW, I'm running the same version of Repetier on the same type of Macbook, but I'm running 10.8.5 and it's always been rock solid. I also have 8G of ram and closely watch the FPS during prints. You should probably look at other programs/processes running to eliminate what you can that might be causing a conflict. As repetier noted, look for the crash report cause for all we know, there's someby trsills - Repetier
RTurnock, Regarding the extruder motor yes, I've placed heat sinks on mine and have a fan rigged up blowing onto the hobbed bolt/filament area and providing some air across the heat sink. Mine jammed all the time until I got the fan on it. Now I can comfortably walk away and let it print. Longest session has been 5 hours straight. I know what you mean about baby sitting it cause I'd use theby trsills - Delta Machines
I have a printrbot Simple up and running with the Marlin firmware. I'm getting good prints and everything's nicely tuned. Yet today I noticed stuff was really out of whack. After looking and double checking everything I finally started looking at the eprom settings, and that's when I found that all of my previous entries were gone and it looked like it'd been reflashed back to factory settingby trsills - Controllers
Thanks for sharing muddtt, printed it out over the weekend and it was a big hit with the family. I've just built a Printrbot Simple and we've had it working day and night to churn stuff out. Wife didn't seem to get it as to why a 3D printer is IMO pretty kewl until she saw the angel and package.by trsills - Look what I made!
Thanks for the responses. I'd forgot about rice and what it could do to absorb moisture. I'll look into finding an airtight container big enough to hold my growing collection of filament ;-)by trsills - General
How are you guys storing your filament when not in use? I just got the 3D printer bug and now that I've got my machine up and running, I'm starting to collect spools of filament. I have 5 1kg spools of 1.75mm PLA. I've been searching online and in the forum and have not come across a whole lot of info other than moisture absorption is a problem that should be addressed. But which is a good waby trsills - General