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Quotemister pong...and bought black ABS 1.75mm
How many times have we seen this in the past? Black filament is the industry's dumping ground for re-grinds, floor sweepings, fillers, and anything else that they can throw into the melting pot and turn into filament. If it will not dissolve in acetone and is jamming up your hotend, change filament vendors! It may cost a little bit more, but you
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I'm not upset that you deleted it. I was just curious about the effectiveness of SEO spamming forums like this, and my negative keywords post proved that even an hour's visibility before deleting their posts is enough for them to get their job done.....
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I only have one comment to make. Check out Google right now and search for "banquet hall queens ny health department" and see who has the #1 hit:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=banquet+hall+queens+ny+health+department
How long was that post up before Google indexed it...with all of my bad keywords? Not saying to leave the posts up, but rather pointing out why SEO spammers do what they
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QuoteMattMoses
What do people think? Everyone OK if I move them? -Matt
My $0.02 USD is to make "Folger" a banned word, but I guess moving them into an appropriate architecture sub-forum seems in line with how other printers have worked over the years.....
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Do you have an always-on cooling fan on your E3Dv6? If not, that may be the cause for your back pressure.....
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Quotethetazzbot
you just dug up a 2 year old thread.
congrats!
If it walks like a spambot, talks like a spambot, and smells like a spambot trying to build up credibility with a simple re-phrase of the subject line on a 2-year-old post.....
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Quotejohn G
I set a jumper on 5v-USB and SRC 12 V
http://reprapworld.com/mt/datasheet%20megatronicsv2.pdf
If I read the datasheet correctly, you should have a jumper on either SRC12v or 5V USB...but not both at the same time.
Assuming that you have 12V or less on the 12V1 input and the jumpers set as described, the next thing that I can think of is that the on-board 5V regulator is fried. I h
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Did you set the jumper to use on-board 5 volt power and not USB 5 volt power?????
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As someone who always to be a few centimeters short when ordering GT2 belts, I can tell you that cable ties make good space fillers. Just make little eyes in each end of the belt by looping it back on itself and hold it with a cable tie. Then, use a longer cable tie to connect those belt loops. Best part is that the cable tie is also your belt tensioner.....
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Quotethe_digital_dentistHow do you guys use/plan to use the networking with a printer?
I print from SD card. Both of my printers have RRD GLCD adapters, but I still prefer to use Pronterface for jogging the carriages and stuff pre-print.
I am also probably in the minority in that I do NOT slice with temperature control, preferring to set it manually so that I can tweak it by hand for a specifi
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Quotewoo
Can anyone screenshot web interface from smoothie?
This example shot is from the Smoothieware web site:
Smoothie's web page looks somewhat like an embedded Pronterface, although I doubt they share actual code. I believe that they are near the hardware limits in terms of binary size, so I would not base my decision on a hope that they will be making significant improvements to the we
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I am a fan of the Smoothieware ecosystem, and believe that a Smoothieboard 5xc meets every criteria on your list.
As dc42 pointed out, the web interface is pretty basic in Smoothieware. On the other hand, the telnet interface is pretty useful for sending G-codes to the printer. There's also instructions on the Smoothie web site telling you how to use the telnet interface as a serial port from
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Did you find RichRap's hotend article in RepRap Magazine? The magazine has a forum on this site with links to all three of their issues.....
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Wow! It looks like the guy from Lotus intends to build a better Tesla Roadster than Elon Musk! I hope that he can actually pull off the complete production run that he plans.....
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In case anyone has never heard of them before, Menards is a midwest home improvement chain that has an involvement with NASCAR sponsorships. Funny association since they don't have stores in the south (NASCAR country), west of the plains, or east coast.....
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QuoteJamesK
Thanks for the link. Looks like the Canadian home depot doesn't stock that, or any other polyisocyanurate foam. I'm guessing a difference in the building regs.
FWIW, Home Depot's web site does not show it as available in any NY stores that I checked. It *is* available in NJ, though.....
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With the E3D v5, a long Bowden tube, and a geared stepper motor extruder, I'm running 6.0mm retraction @ 100mm/sec (acceleration adjusted in firmware).
Are you sure that some of the blobs are not being caused by wet filament?????
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Quoteo_lampe ( I´ve used it frequently in the past, when I designed batteries for electric race-cars.)# attached a pic from good old times, when we believed in the electric car revolution
For what it's worth, I always thought that the Lotus 7 (Caterham) design would make a good platform for a DIY electric car.....
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QuoteVDX
... why is the RADDS board not for sale anymore?
The shop is online and I didn't hear something about discontinuity
I stand corrected. Angelo apparently has the shopping part of his site back online:
http://max3dshop.org/index.php/default/elektronik/radds-v1-2.html
There has been no pricing or purchase info online for several months, at least viewing it from North America. The onl
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Let me throw in my +1 on the Smoothieware ecosystem. The Azteeg X5 Mini ($109) used to be the best 32-bit Smoothieware controller for the money, but Panucatt's customer service has been slipping recently from what I've heard through posts by others. A genuine Smoothieboard is on the pricy side, but it has a lot of features for the money.....
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Quotetadawson
Or an Arduino Due with appropriate shield . . . for those who want to stay modular . . .
I would not call this an option any more. The RADDS board seems to no longer be for sale, and everyone knows to avoid RAMPS-FD like the plague unless you are willing to modify the board to fix some of the design flaws that Geeetech doesn't think are dangerous enough to stop selling it.....
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The reason I didn't use them is the hole pattern on them (For mounting the Rod Carrier's) was not quite right (I could have got them to fit but would only of used 2 holes and ofset from the joint centres which I didn't want) hence I took the openbuild design and extended the height by 10 mm and put my own bolt pattern in for the carriers.
I find that there is plent
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His carriages (like Andy's CP-III ones) look an awful lot like the OpenBuilds mini-V plate that these wheels were originally intended for:
http://openbuildspartstore.com/mini-v-wheel-plate/
I'm not a huge fan of this design in general, as the OpenBuilds plate and eccentrics will not provide me with enough adjustment range to take all of the slop out of the wheels on their V-slot extrusions.
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QuoteDejay
Thanks for the answer! I didn't realize you used Vslot wheels on normal extrusions. I've decided to just order some mini V wheels plus some V slot extrusions for the verticals only.
Andy is using Bosch/Rexroth 2020 T-slot extrusions, IIRC. The mini-V wheels ride inside the beveled edges of the slots, although not as nicely as they do in the proper V-slot extrusion.
As a caution, the
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Time for a 32-bit board. I'm partial to Smoothieware, but others are having good luck with the Duet and dc42's firmware.....
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QuoteDejayHas this idea already been discussed and discarded somewhere? (I imagine it was).
AndyCart did it on the original Cherry Pi. Feel free to look it up on Thingiverse.
Regarding the metal-on-metal, I think that he was at one point going to try putting a thin "tire" over the bearing, either heat shrink tubing or something else. I don't remember what ever came of that, but the fact that
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This isn't a new problem, nor is it limited to the General forum:
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?33,497873
I reported it two months ago in the admin forum, and also speculated that it was related to spam being deleted.
I think that dc42 may have found the missing piece of the puzzle with the spam message being deleted also needing to be the first message in the forum, and will keep a closer
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Werner Berry has a video on YouTube of his dryer/storage setup, which uses a vacuum pump and a $99 Harbor Freight (USA) paint sprayer pot. I've also read posts about people using food dehydrators to dry filament with good luck. I have wondered what would happen to a spool of wet filament if left on my heated bed for several hours at 110C with a cardboard box over it, but never tested it.....
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