Very nice! Thank you I downloaded it and replaced the file in the machines folder as specified. At first when I opened RepG I didn't see a difference, but I went back to the folder and relocated all of the other machine types into a new folder. Then when I went back into RepG I could identify a prusa/mendel machine type. Unfortunately I was running a part in pronterface, so I didn't attempt toby Skypuppet - General
Even if it is "patented". I could copy it all the live long day. Just couldn't market it (any more) after getting a cease and desist. Isn't that the way it works? Unfortunately, I don't even know what this revolutionary design is, but I imagine it is nothing new from responses here.by Skypuppet - General
I've heard some good things about ReplicatorG, and since I've been dealing with a nagging fatal pause in Pronterface, I thought I'd give it a try. I DL'd the latest version (29_r2) and followed instruction on the website, but I'm hitting a wall with "Machine Type(Driver)". My machine is not in the dialog, so I chose "klimentkip" thinking it may be for various builds. I had my machine connecteby Skypuppet - General
Hi all, I know how to attach images, but I had seen some posts where the images are already opened. When I attached an image it creates a box with buttons to open them. Please help. I think people are much more likely to be interested in images that are already up.by Skypuppet - Reprappers
Here's mine at thingi as well: I'll resize it and post a pic here too Here's the pic. Sorry for the watermark. I used a "free" resizing appby Skypuppet - Reprappers
Looks great! I just designed /made one myself. I'll get pics up too. Mine is also a top mount and pretty universal, but it is a bit different from yours. I made it with a "no tools" install in mind, but went ahead and added some M3 hardware to lock barclamps down. Not really necessary tho. It would be interesting to see others' designs as well .by Skypuppet - Reprappers
This happened to me, but also, only in one direction. My parts were shifting in Y axis (randomly). It was as simple as replacing the spring clamps that fasten my glass to my print bed. They would allow the plate to shift during rapid directional cycling in Y. Stiffer clamps fixed that. I'm sure I could also correct this in skeinforge by slowing down directional changes, right? I'm still new. Onby Skypuppet - Reprappers
Did somebody reinvent the wheel again? I missed somethingby Skypuppet - General
Always a good idea to vent. Of course, I haven't done it... but I do think about it. I'm sure that the hot fumes that are being emitted are lighter than the room temp surrounding air, but with a decent enclosure and a moderate fan to draw it through, it shouldn't matter.by Skypuppet - General
I'm unfamiliar with anything but Skeinforge (sfact) and sprinter with pronterface, but I had the exact same problem and unchecked my "clip" button in skeinforge. I have SFACT installed on two laptops and reverted to the one install that I had never tampered with and found that it wasn't checked. I must have accidentally checked it at some point. Anyway, I don't know if Slic3r has a similar optiby Skypuppet - General
I don't totally disagree, it just didn't clear up immediately with a new nozzle assy. Then it did quite a bit later in the middle of a print. Pretty strange. It's been printing great since. I havent cleaned out the old nozzle, so I could install it and see if it runs like doo again. But I'm inclined to leave a good thing alone, haha! I don't know if you're familiar with the budaschnozzle, but wby Skypuppet - General
I should have mentioned that I swapped in a new hot end. Aside from that I've tried running from 200-215c. Odd thing is, it seems to have cleared up. It's running right now and looks nice. Maybe it was a goofy stretch of filament?by Skypuppet - General
I'll give you a "new guy" perspective. I agree with most of the above, but I only have experience with 3mm filament, so I can't comment on 1.75mm. PLA seems to provide stiffness that ABS does not. ABS provides flexability/durability that PLA does not. For instance, my machine (bought it used-ebay) had opto-endstop clamps made of PLA and they were all cracked and in need of replacement. Myby Skypuppet - General
Now I'm running into a strange problem with PLA that has me puzzled. I was printing beautiful parts for days, then suddenly, my external walls (shells?) started to look like dog dew (blue tho). The wall surface actually looks like the hook side of velcro. Little hooks all over. It is actually a lot of loops, but it most resembles the hook side of "Hook & Loop". So strange. My machine is iby Skypuppet - General
That's saying something! I would think you'd be using a lot in that application tho. When I was at Hyperlite, we build over 50,000 wakeboards per year with about 3lb going into a core. That may seem like a lot, but what your talking about (construction industry?) is huge. BTW, that's how my sensitivity manifested. Tight chest and sneezing fits. Then one day, wham, full on asthma. I had to have aby Skypuppet - General
Yeah, much more pleasant fumes (PLA vs ABS). I'm liking it Urethane foam is really an awesome material but we shoot into heated molds, so the vapors can be pretty intense. I shouldn't hate on it. It's used in the bulk of our products. The other core materials require machining instead of molding (PVC, Wood, Honeycomb) and are many times more expensive. I get an asthmatic reaction to PU outgassby Skypuppet - General
Wow, the part I'm printing right now is pretty big 6"x4"x3.5" and it is staying down really well. No warping. Yay PLA!! I do have a heated bed, but I still see some lifting of edges when printing large items with ABS. Is this the nature of PLA? Minimal warping?by Skypuppet - General
It sounds like you and I have some similar experiences. I've worked in the Wakeboard/Waterski manufacturing industry since '88. We used urethane foam injection for cores and we definitely had to qualify new suppliers with lots and lots of testing. That stuff is super proprietary and its properties can be all over the map for the same given density. I really hate urethane. Hazardous, nasty stuffby Skypuppet - General
dissidence, I'd relate my troubles to my own inexperience. You may have a better pinchwheel setup, or possibly a better hobbed bolt, could be any number of things. Maybe you just naturally tighten the pinch roller more than I do. You reg'd 2 years ago. You've likely forgotten more than I'll know for a while yet. I hope that it didn't sound like I was casting aspersions on Ultimachines productsby Skypuppet - General
Jsadusk, Alex & others, good call on pinch wheel pressure. I just received some PLA (5lb blue), also from Ultimachine and have been struggling with stripping all morning. I spent a bunch of time re-leveling my bed and trying different films for printing onto, as well as a range of temps. I couldn't get the pla to sit down at all. Just balls and webs. Then I decided to search here, found thiby Skypuppet - General
NewPerfection, You are correct. 100%, with the exception of "it'll work, but considering"... not for me anyway. It just wont do. While the 5/16 rods are ideally only .0027" smaller, mine actually measure closer to .005" smaller, which is definitely enough to cause a rattle in the bearing circuits. I'm sure they'd be spitting out little BB's before too long. I will say that the E52100 is definiby Skypuppet - General
yellow fish, yes I'm sure going up in diameter would likely offer some better bearing choices. The lm8uu bearings are a 4 row circuit generally and that is the real issue with surface hardness. If the larger lm10uu bearings offer more circuits/rows and larger balls, then you will get a more even load distribution, which is good. Also a longer circuit will help but this can also be achieved by usby Skypuppet - General
Buback: Good call on the annealed material. I saw that comment and wondered, but it seemed that they made the brinell claims regardless of post treatment, where they stated that the annealed material could achieve Rockwell hardness of C39 - C65. I need to read up on brinell hardness. I'm not really familiar with it. I assumed it was the hardness of the alloy in its annealed form. The hardness beby Skypuppet - General
I'm glad to see this discussion as I'm gearing up to build a prusa based machine with a larger build envelope. Earlier today, I placed an order with McMaster Carr for some of the materials. I wound up ordering E52100 alloy 5/16" rod even though I'm using LM8UU's (8mm). The diameter is only .0027" smaller than 8mm which is still a HUGE improvement over the PLA printable bearings. This 52100 hasby Skypuppet - General
Well, well, well... I got Pronterface working!! Just in case anybody else has the same problem, I wound up using the "ready to run" version from: This link is on the wiki site, but since everything I had read said to run everything in order starting with python and ending with the kliment-printrun available at github, and the koti.kapsi ver. is listed as experimental, well, I just skipped oveby Skypuppet - RepSnapper
No I haven't. I did notice that my heat seems to be reversed in that the bed seems to be heating more than the hot end. I should tell you that yesterday I had made some Sprinter mods that I shouldn't have. I did what was described in the Makergear getting started guide and loaded "sprinter.h" or something like that. Instantly my printer acted real strange and I thought I'd really screwed somethby Skypuppet - RepSnapper
I'm probably hijacking here... I hope not, but I just had the same problem. I have Ramps 1.3 and could operate all functions (home xyz and heat) except for extrude. Just hummed, but every 5th or 6th try, it would feed. I think you've helped me here since what you just wrote about speed is supported by something a member just said. Slower feed rates should work. I see this is old, so I'm sure yoby Skypuppet - RepSnapper
Hi Dale. Thanks for confirming some of my thoughts. I just finished up with a format and fresh install of Vista and still get just a blip. I PM'd Daniel so I'm sure we'll get it figured out. The repsnapper thing is really strange. I thought maybe my extruder stepper was faulty, but I connected it to my X axis and it turned when I jogged it. Yet it just hums on the extruder channel. I had playeby Skypuppet - RepSnapper
Well I did as best I could according to those MakerGear instructions. First off I installed all the support files (Python,pyserial,pyreadline and wxpython) and then moved on to pronterface. After re-naming the unpacked kliment printrun file folder (Pronterface) and inserting it in the C root, I created the shortcut, and assigned its button to it. At this point they suggest doing a quick test to sby Skypuppet - RepSnapper