Thanks... I just needed a little reassurance before taking a screwdriver to it...by grgrimley - Prusa i3 and variants
Thanks Wafflejock... I was going to try that, but did not want to let the smoke out of anything... I am into electric RC planes... and once the smoke gets out, it is impossible to put it back in... GGby grgrimley - Prusa i3 and variants
@ mfmellone -- Do the springs look like the springs out of close-pin? If so then they are for adding some tension to the belts in case you do not get them tight enough in the assembly. They work well, I used them on the "Y" belt and it made a big difference... when i put it on the X axis it got too tight and things bound up. I have subsequently printed the x-belt tightener from thingsiverse meby grgrimley - Prusa i3 and variants
I have the fan and the shroud printed, and am looking for a place to power it up from the RAMPS board (RepRap Guru I3 kit). I have the heat sink fan connected as per the instructions, But I noticed that when I use Craft ware slicer and tell it to disable fan on the first layer or two, it actually disables the heat sink fan... The question is, can I put the secondary fan in those terminals and pby grgrimley - Prusa i3 and variants
Once I fried up my RepRap Prusa_i3 I noticed that I could not read the LCD unless I looked from a side angle of about 80 degrees. Later I got a Tronxy and was surprised to see how easy it was to read the LCD. I noticed on the back of my RepRap LCD there is a pot that is labeled cont(rast) + .. -. Being a chicken, I did not try to adjust it (yet). Looking for advice... Might this improve the vby grgrimley - Prusa i3 and variants
My printer kit is working excellently, however on some smaller diameter towers, they stay too hot and droop and sag. I read that a work cooling fan could be added to solve this problem, so I ordered a fan, printed the mount and funnel from thingsiverse... and all was going well until... I could not find a place on the ramps board to plug in a second fan. Any good ideas?? Also... I found out whby grgrimley - Prusa i3 and variants