@Vizual54 When it does launch, we'll still be shipping the current nozzle in the kit as standard. The new one will be part of a secondary upgrade kit that includes the new nozzle, electronics upgrade board, wiring and things of that nature. Also I'd recommend you get up and running on a single nozzle before going to the dual anyway, it just keeps things simple whilst you are getting up and r
Forum: Ormerod

Quotedc42 Quotetstone I saw some documentation about a dual nozzle mod. I wrote a blog entry on how to do it, see my signature at the bottom of this message for the link. It's not difficult. I think RepRapPro also has something in the pipeline. Yes, we do have something in the pipeline. Just waiting to do the blog post on it. We announced an upgrade to the Huxley early last week - with it we la
Forum: Ormerod

Hi Pete The firmware is being updated pretty much constantly. I don't think any of the recent updates should matter if you didn't update them both simultaneously but its normally good practice just to be sure. Rhys
Forum: Reprappers

Hi Pete The Slave init test on the master just checks that sensible temperatures are being reported. The initial problems you encountered were most likely due to communication issues between the master and the slave, this should be fixed in the latest firmware release. You can send the master board an M111 command, this will turn debug mode on the slave. If you then open up arduino, and have a
Forum: Reprappers

Is this from a USB print or from the SD card? Generally RepRaps are much more reliable printing from SD
Forum: General Mendel Topics

Is the plate actually flat? A piece of glass comes with the kit, this is pretty much guaranteed to be flat, so if the plate is bent it should be obvious to spot any gaps by putting the glass ontop of the aluminium. However, in my experience of the Mendels, if the 2 Y smooth rods aren't perfectly parallel and aligned it is possible for the Y frog to twist giving the symptoms you describe.
Forum: General Mendel Topics

Alzibiff - Z wobble is a bit of a pet hate of mine, but you can normally tell because the shadows/colour aren't quite consistent - I know I'm a bit picky! Although some colours are alot more forgiving than others. As I say, aramaniac and Iceman's prints looked superb, but just the consistency of OoiTY's prints knocked it over the edge but it was a tough call
Forum: Competitions

Well it's decision time. Overall the standard was really high, and it was pretty tough making a decision - pretty much everyone was a contender. Jaramaniac and Iceman both had really nice prints on the whole, but it seems like there is a little bit of Z wobble. Nodeva did an awesome print considering they've only been up and running a couple of weeks. Richgain had a very nice print on the whole t
Forum: Competitions

Also I'm a tad busy on Sunday so I won't be able to judge it then. If anyone has any last minute entries, feel free to post until the end of the 30th.
Forum: Competitions

Everyone - Ok time to up the ante. Sat under my bed is a 100m coil of 1.75mm Faberdashery arctic blue PLA, not to sound like a commercial but I've tried filament from loads of sources over the years and their filament is the best by quite a margin, even if it is the most expensive. Anyway I don't have any plans for it in the immediate future. It can be a nice prize to the winner if they have any
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I should say that just because he's retiring from the University does not equal leaving the project. If anything he's going to be working on it more than ever. As an aside I'll also be leaving the University soon, although I won't be going anywhere either As far as foundation, there is a core team consisting of about 15-20 people (I've lost count), including most of the notable developers. All
Forum: General

Perhaps I can clear things up a bit Adrian has now retired from the University and all RepRap activities will be coming to a close shortly as far as the University is concerned(Well once I finish writing my thesis). He's just updating his contact details.
Forum: General

@Sublime - Personally I'd say that's exactly the kind of tip that these threads are good for!
Forum: Competitions

Hi All I thought it'd be fun to revisit a classic print, Yoda-Lite by Faberdasher. Link I've always struggled to get nice prints at super low layer heights, To be honest I find my prints start to look a little worse once I get below 0.15mm. Given the amount of tips in the last thread about overhangs, doing a similar thing for super fine layers would be good. Also it seems to be the consensus t
Forum: Competitions

Thanks guys. Overall the standard of prints was really high this time around, despite the tricky model - it's good to see print quality on the rise since the early competitions. I'll try to get something up by the weekend
Forum: Competitions

@NewPerfection I think thats a sign that I need to go to bed!
Forum: Competitions

@Richgain, Very nice - is that ABS? Edit: I swear Rich had a completed print up a minute ago - I must be losing my mind!
Forum: Competitions

@Richrap Very nice print and well observed. Looking closer at my print I think I'm seeing a similar effect with the drooping, I might try backing of the line width a bit and trying it again.
Forum: Competitions

@richgain Its black Makerbot abs, but it appears dark blue under bright lights, I think I lucked out on the photo. I'm using Slic3r 0.72b and I guessed at a lift of 0.2mm. I only did that one print, so I'm not sure if I actually need it. I tried upgrading to a newer version of slic3r but for some reason the print quality got worse for me, I'm 99% sure it was in part due to them reversing the o
Forum: Competitions

Not going to lie, I really struggled with the overhangs on this one. I printed it on a prototype of an as yet unnamed new machine a friend and I are working on. But here is my stab at it, print is straight off the machine: My slic3r settings for ABS, printed with a fan @230degrees. I had a lift turned on between travel moves to prevent the problems of nozzle collisions Richgain is having (I di
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Congratualtions richgain!!!! A very nice print indeed!
Forum: Competitions

I could use either. There is something funny going on though, I sliced one and then had a change of plan and resliced with different settings and the slice time went from 15 minutes down to 90 seconds, I hardly changed anything. I am running the github version though rather than the official release.
Forum: Competitions

I've had some experience with a Makergear stepper plastruder, it was one of the best extruders I've ever used, the instructions were pretty good and the quality of the machined parted were superb. Unfortunately it died due to a dogey batch of filament
Forum: General

Stratasys have a patent for printing in amphorous metals. Link. As far as I can tell they wouldn't need anything specially on the extruder front, there is one with full metal strength that softens at 70ish degrees. However they all cost a small fortune
Forum: General

This is almost certainly due to acceleration. How big is the part your trying to print? If its small you'll won't reach max speed even on the slower settings....
Forum: General

It was printed on an eMaker/RepRap Pro Huxley with one or two minor changes. I find the overhang tip is a general rule, but the problem with having fat walls is it makes the solid fill not quite so nice, so if the print is fairly basic I tend to turn it down a bit
Forum: Competitions

Here is my shot at it, pics are straight off of the machine : I used the latest version of Slic3r, the settings are below: ; layer_height = 0.2 ; perimeters = 2 ; solid_layers = 4 ; fill_density = 0.25 ; nozzle_diameter = 0.3 ; filament_diameter = 1.75 ; extrusion_multiplier = 1 ; perimeter_speed = 30 ; infill_speed = 50 ; travel_speed = 150 ; scale = 1 ; single wall width = 0.60mm I had the m
Forum: Competitions

I've got some of their conductive ABS coming this week. I'll let you all know how it is.
Forum: General

I spoke to Jean Marc a couple of weeks ago. He was planning to move factories last Monday, I'd imagine he's still getting back up and running.
Forum: General

I find the main benefit is it makes the whole thing much easier to tune, presumably as the forces are so much lower and the extra "gearing", but when tuned properly there isn't much benefit at all.
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