I have had several occurances of a print stopping for no known reason. Pronterface will respond to commands such as PAUSE or RESUME, at least until a motor command is sent - when it will display an hourglass forever. There is no warning from either window of Pronterface, or from MS windows of anything being wrong. Can anybody tell me what can be going wrong - and how to prevent it happening agaiby leadinglights - Controllers
I think that I may have found the problem and have described what seems to be happening in case it helps anybody else. After I had this problem I replaced the hobbed bolt with a somewhat different design and seemed to have no further problems for a while. I have attached photos of the original hobbed bolt and a new one with teeth on the shoulders only . The new hobbed bolt worked fine with oneby leadinglights - Plastic Extruder Working Group
Subject as above. I have checked all of the usual suspects - but with no luck. I had done about 40 hours of printing; Yoda-Lite, Screwing Jewlery Boxes etc., without problem before I got a jam and now can't get more than a few layers without it fouling up. The 1.75mm ABS filament is knotting up directly after the hobbed bolt. The temperature in this region is not above 35 degrees C and the bolt iby leadinglights - Plastic Extruder Working Group
Thankyou Nophead and Marnargulus - I apologise for not replying sooner but my employers have been keeping me busy. While I am waiting for a delivery of ABS and PLA filament, I have been trying to build a hot end with rapidly replacable nozzles; the present design has a silver steel nozzle clamped in a purpose made heatsink. this seems to work quite well and the cold end of the steel nozzle mainby leadinglights - Plastic Extruder Working Group
I have nearly got my Prusa up and running and am now making a hot end for the Wade's extruder, but I haven't seen anything on the geometry of the nozzle. Should the nozzle have a flat tip? If so, what diameter? Maybe it would be better convex - and here again, what raduis? Thanks for any info you can give, Mikeby leadinglights - Plastic Extruder Working Group
Thanks Riccardo, that solved the problem. Mikeby leadinglights - RepSnapper
Thanks Javaid. I solved it by going to ReplicatorG instead. Now I only have mechanical frustrations like the anti-backlash springs jamming the Z axis.by leadinglights - RepSnapper
After a lot of reading and general sluething, I have found out that the "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)" is something to do with the C++ runtime package, but even after I install this, I still can't get the most recent RepSnapper to run on any of my machines (same error message). However, an earlier RepSnapper loads fine, but I can't find how to use the interactive modby leadinglights - RepSnapper
Only on one out of four computers am I able to start RepSnapper, the others fail with a "Cannot initialise" message. All machines running Windows XP and all up to date with SP3 and all updates, but the three which fail are all older machines - from 4 to 8 years old. The one computer which can run RepSnapper can also communicate withmy RAMPS stack, but is far away from my Prusa.by leadinglights - RepSnapper