Wow, sounds like you had(still having) quite an ordeal! You definitely beat my story, although I can relate a little: my typing has definitely become dyslexic. Also I had a snake-bitten & subsequently fractured foot(poorly diagnosed both times) about 5-6 years ago; sort of takes the joy out of outdoors things. ...and then there are my other injuries/problems going back way back. Inmoov looksby kippbits - Developers
Looks nice! I'm getting more and more interested in building a custom setup myself, although i'm leaning towards an all aluminum frame(or maybe wooden: i have a lot of wood working tools). You say you were in a car accident? any thoughts as a "maker" on modern medical capabilities? I had a hand injury ~3 years back, and I was very disappointed with the outcome of my care. It's too bad because thby kippbits - Developers
Thanks for the tip deckingman! ...and I guess i've been miss abbreviating RepRapPro(RRP)by kippbits - Reprappers
Quoteplexer I also see you mentioned issues with the igus bushings not sliding very well, I never liked the fiddly nature of those so I mashed up my own x axis ends to include linear bearings. Ben I'd love to get my hands on that STL. At this point i might just stick with what i've got, but I think linear bearings would have fixed the whole problem from the start. mattercontrol sounds interesby kippbits - Reprappers
Hello all, I've been a reprappers for more than a year now, and have been very pleased with my printer. I am printing on a RepRapPro(RPP) Mendel 3, and have enjoyed it very much for the past year. Thinking back I probably would have gone with the Ormerod 2. The Mendel was a fairly complex printer to build for a beginner, and with some of the large prints i have done I would have liked the extra pby kippbits - Reprappers
Quotestephenrc If the things you're printing don't stick to the bed, the hotend will drag them all over and create a spaghetti monster. Clean and refresh with whatever you're using to make things stick to the bed. now that you mention it i do have some rips in the kapton tape on the print bed. I also have an issue with alignment, and I'm pretty sure it's being caused by a sticking slider. wishby kippbits - Printing
Hi all, I've gotten back to printing again after a long break. printer was running smoothly until i tried to print some batches of 6 copies of some AA&AAA dummy batteries. I've put a picture below of the final output. the print head seems to be lifting up one of the models on the print bed(no video), and then this moves around and wrecks some of the surounding models. I'm guessing this mightby kippbits - Printing
is there a way I can mark this topic as solved? (i'd also like to change the title to match the actual problem)by kippbits - Printing
I figured it out, and i feel dumb. my pulley was threaded the wrong way. Rethreaded, and it seems to be working. here are pictures of before and after just in case someone else is also dumb enough to make my mistake. before: after: printing:by kippbits - Printing
Well lowering the speed seemed to help, although i did have 1 misprint before i got a success. I had some accidents during commissioning, and my rubber pulley is kind of messed up. I think I might try changing it next if this keeps up. Thanks for all the helpby kippbits - Printing
Well,l after fiddling with my y-cradle I did get it moving back and forth smoothly using the machine controls in the web interface. I am still having a problem occasionally and still can't print a full file without it messing up. it messed up on my most recent print after the first layer: . . . G1 X106.256 Y36.622 F9000.000 G1 X105.366 Y35.732 E0.11929 F900.000 G1 X103.433 Y34.875 F9000.000 G1 Xby kippbits - Printing
cleaned bearings(broke some extraneous plastic in the process), and it did not fix the problem. I think it might be my cradle alignment. I noticed my pulley was shifting to one side of the roller, and rubbing the side. will adjust and get back to you all....by kippbits - Printing
Well it happened again: Perhaps it IS the bearings. I tried to make a second copy of my thingamajig, and this happened^^^ I also ran the Y-axis back and forth a few times to find where it was binding. The binding doesn't seem connected to any particular place in the travel. I'll try your tightening trick imqqmi. And I guess if that doesn't work I need new bearings Thanks for all the help!by kippbits - Printing
Funny I didn't notice it in the preview. well I seemed to have fixed itself anyway. Here is the finished product. p.s. I did get that same rumbling noise when the print finished; is this normal? I'm pretty sure I'm using the latest firmware.by kippbits - Printing
Thanks Imqqmi, I'd redo the test with G1 but I'm currently doing a reprint with my new file. So far it hasn't messed up. I think the problem might have been with my mesh. I'll give you an update when it finishesby kippbits - Printing
I'm wondering if it could be something with the STL file? It printed a different model perfectly just before this one. I am little new to Blender, and there were a lot of corrections in Slic3r on this model that messed up. I'm currently doing a test print with a new version of the same Blender file. I had some weirdness in the mesh at a few spots. I'd like to wait and see if that fixes it. Forby kippbits - Printing
Hi, everything moves freely and smoothly. I'm not sure if I'm checking acceleration right. I'm doing the following in the web interface: home all axis Y +10 G0 Y100 F9000 S1 G0 Y-100 F9000 S1 It doesn't travel the full distance out, and comes back and trips the endstop. It then seems to get stuck there, and makes some rumbling before moving out again. is it the motor? why is it only in one dirby kippbits - Printing
I've seen some threads about axis drift, but none with steps this large. Other than the occasional jump, the printer seams to run fine and i don't have any distortion otherwise. this has happened a few times now with different models. Is this perhaps a problems with Slic3r? The picture is of a model I made using blender, and converted to g-code with Slicer. Does anyone know what causes this problby kippbits - Printing