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So I wanted a dual extruder/heated bed device and that Chinese thing seemed scary to me so I bought a M2X. So far I've gotten it to print great in ABS, after a few failed prints where I learned I didn't level it just quite right. All told I am having a ton of fun with it. I can't get it to print for poo poo in PLA though. It prints a couple layers and then the extruder jams up. The feeder motor is turning but it stops gripping the filament and keeps just clicking over and over again. The filament gets little track marks in it from where the feeder tried to grab it and failed. If I cut off the chewed piece of filament and re-do the feed process it flows through fine so it seems like the mechanism isn't clogged, and maybe it's just having trouble getting filament into the extruder. Am I running it too hot? The default PLA profile in Makerware calls for running the extruder at 230 ºC, I tried dialing it down to 190º and it seemed like maybe I got one or two more layers out before it crapped out. edit: from googling it seems like it's just flaky at PLA in general. I liked the look of the plastic better than ABS in the final product, but that's not worth the hassle. kitten smoothie fucked around with this message at 19:27 on May 11, 2014 |
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seaborgium posted:You too? I'm batch 3, not looking good so far. I'm wondering if they're going to try and sell some at the Maker Faire they're going to next week. batch 4  . I doubt they'd try and sell them it's just another fantasy deadline. Starting to look into grants, pretty sure i can convince someone somewhere to buy me a makerbot for some medical stuff i'm doing
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May 12, 2014 23:10
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Any thoughts on the printer Monoprice is rolling out? http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_...rinter_preorder
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May 14, 2014 15:40
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I love monoprice and I find that they are selling a 3D printer extremely interesting. Curious how it'll work out, though. Don't really want to be a guinea pig.
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May 14, 2014 15:54
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Yeah I also love monoprice and it is quite interesting that they are releasing a 3d printer. The price looks pretty good for what you get. I don't see my self being one of the first ones to try it but it looks pretty drat good. Color me interested.
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May 14, 2014 15:57
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Is there any sort of visual guide or something to printer problems and how to fix them?
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May 14, 2014 16:35
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For the price of the monoprice printer, I'd just buy a rostock max. Though one doesn't have to be assembled.
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May 14, 2014 19:26
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insta posted:Except it's worse in almost every way, but OK. Can you quantify that some more please? A self assembly kit from nophead is almost double that of an i3.
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May 14, 2014 22:40
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Can you quantify that some more please? A self assembly kit from nophead is almost double that of an i3. The advantages of the Mendel90 are primarily the ease of self-sourcing a kit. The OpenSCAD scripts are extremely customizable to the materials you have on hand, which makes it very easy to set the thing to be built from 1/2" MDF (also pretty cheap). It will spit out saw templates, drill templates, a BOM, and personalized STL files for your individual requirements. This makes the M90 trivial to scale in any dimension you want. The i3 requires similar hardware (so no bonus there), but the frame is a piece of springy aluminum, and it still has wobble problems. Unless you find someone to do it for you, you're going to need a waterjet for the frame as well (!), so good luck if you drop it and it bends when removing it from your car or something. The Mendel90 is also designed for long, continuous operation. nophead actually designs strain relief and flex guides into the machine. MDF is very stable, and you can configure it to use massively thick parts (3/4" if you want) for an extremely stable platform that you can crank the speed on. If MDF isn't your thing, you change a single setting in the scads and can spit out an acrylic design instead. I was able to source a Mendel90 (thanks to the BOM) for about $400. I got the cut & drill templates printed at Kinkos and cut them with a jigsaw.
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May 14, 2014 23:37
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If you haven't heard yet, Autodesk has made another play in the 3D printer space. They're basically rolling out the 3D printer equivalent of Android, and it's called Spark. They are also releasing a printer at the same time, which looks similar in principle to the Formlabs printer. On the one hand, I think this is a really clever move, because they are trying to build their business around a platform, rather than tying to keep the lights on by selling printers. That works great in the smart phone world, but who knows how it will translate. It appears that building a machine to be compatible with Spark will be pretty easy for a company, but source code will not be available for the average hacker (if I've understood it correctly). If it's really a walled garden type of ecosystem, it may be met with resistance. But anyway, looks very interesting nonetheless.
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May 15, 2014 05:42
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:If you haven't heard yet, Autodesk has made another play in the 3D printer space. They're basically rolling out the 3D printer equivalent of Android, and it's called Spark. They are also releasing a printer at the same time, which looks similar in principle to the Formlabs printer. I like that "reliability" and "ease of use" don't make it to their "most important attribute in a 3d printer" survey question, but "color" does.
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May 15, 2014 05:59
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Maybe they figure that for a commercial product reliability and ease of use are obvious no-brainers? The Stratasys FDMs are workhorses that any idiot can operate -- real companies would not put up with MakerBot, let alone RepRap, levels of reliability. And color printing (especially multiple colors in a single print) really is going to be a major thing for 3D printers to become generally acceptable by consumers. People have limited uses for a machine that only makes homogeneous plastic objects.
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May 15, 2014 07:33
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Maplin have the 3Doodler in stock here in the uk with 50 sticks of ABS for £99, I texted my wife asking her to talk me out of it. Her reply was "no"
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May 16, 2014 13:22
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Cakefool posted:Maplin have the 3Doodler in stock here in the uk with 50 sticks of ABS for £99, I texted my wife asking her to talk me out of it. If you've got a hot glue gun around you can save yourself some money.
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May 16, 2014 15:46
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Cakefool posted:Maplin have the 3Doodler in stock here in the uk with 50 sticks of ABS for £99, I texted my wife asking her to talk me out of it. It's a fun craft toy, but not useful for much.
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May 16, 2014 16:55
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UberVexer posted:If you've got a hot glue gun around you can save yourself some money. My glue gun doesn't take 3mm filament and electrically extrude  neongrey posted:It's a fun craft toy, but not useful for much. I know that, but I bought it anyway. Took a bit of playing with but I think i got it now. Scribbling in midair is fun and I can delude myself I'll one day strap it to my mindstorms kit.
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May 16, 2014 21:03
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After a week of loving around with my new prusa 13v, i finally have a test cube printed. I guess as a hobby, this is a perfect way to fill all of my free time.
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May 16, 2014 21:47
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Cakefool posted:My glue gun doesn't take 3mm filament and electrically extrude We just got one at the hackspace. Fun so far, going to take some work to get good with it, but yeah, I'm not sure how overall USEFUL it'll be. I suspect it will just be an amusing way to make signs and the like.
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I'm working on a prusa i3 and it looks like my y end stop holder is placing the endstop in a position which isn't far away enough. As a result I don't have access to the "corners" to calibrate the nozzle. Any tips? Any modified end stop holders that are more extended?
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May 17, 2014 00:56
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Cakefool posted:I know that, but I bought it anyway. Took a bit of playing with but I think i got it now. Scribbling in midair is fun and I can delude myself I'll one day strap it to my mindstorms kit. Oh yeah, I backed the KS, and I like the thing well enough, but people seem to expect more of it than what it is. It's definitely fun to play around with.
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I'm going to try to cram a printrbot hot end onto my doorstop cupcake. Wish me luck! If the nozzles are interchangeable then I might not even have to make any real software tweaks!
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Mister Sinewave posted:I'm going to try to cram a printrbot hot end onto my doorstop cupcake. Wish me luck! If the nozzles are interchangeable then I might not even have to make any real software tweaks! I'd love to see some before/after photos if that works out!
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Mister Sinewave posted:I'm going to try to cram a printrbot hot end onto my doorstop cupcake. Wish me luck! If the nozzles are interchangeable then I might not even have to make any real software tweaks! I recently converted a TOM to use RAMPS and a Lulzbot hot end... it's still a doorstop. Cakefool posted:I can delude myself I'll one day strap it to my mindstorms kit. I think I'd actually like to see that. The 3Doodler's retraction was pretty awful the last time I read about it, if I recall, but anything made of Lego bricks that moves makes me smile like an idiot.
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I'm not using my Form 1 enough to justify owning it. Are there any good places to try and sell a high-ticket item like that?
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You can donate it to our makerspace, it's tax deductible! I see people buying/selling them on the form1 "forums", though, might try there. Looks like they're doing it through ebay but using the forums to connect. Of course, I say forum, but that's being generous.
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Well, it was a bit of a pain in the rear end but I got it bodged in. Printrbot 3mm filament hot end onto a Makerbot Cupcake. The printer now works about as well as it ever did, which is to say a bit stone-age compared to more modern ones but better than nothing!
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muon posted:I'm not using my Form 1 enough to justify owning it. Are there any good places to try and sell a high-ticket item like that? How much? Includes any resin?
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muon posted:I'm not using my Form 1 enough to justify owning it. Are there any good places to try and sell a high-ticket item like that? I'm sure someone around here (including myself) would buy it for the right price.
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Made some spacers in Meshmixer yesterday: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:342263
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muon posted:I'm not using my Form 1 enough to justify owning it. Are there any good places to try and sell a high-ticket item like that? Yeah also interested in what you'd want to sell it for.
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I've been looking into a starter 3d printer for a while, and I was wondering what the current gold standards were for reasonable quality. Don't care about any of the fancier aspects, as long as it prints in reasonable quality with standard plastics etc.
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w00tmonger posted:I've been looking into a starter 3d printer for a while, and I was wondering what the current gold standards were for reasonable quality. Don't care about any of the fancier aspects, as long as it prints in reasonable quality with standard plastics etc. Flashforge Creator seems to be a good entry level printer. Basically the replicator 1 with dual extruders. Besides that the Ultimaker 2 looks awesome, though it comes at a higher premium The Robo3D is good for high volume to cost ratio, but requires a good technician to keep running The printrbot simple metal is a great low cost printer but you'e limited on how much you can upgrade on it. The printrbot plus is basically a more rigidized version of the Robo3D without a lid. Probably doesn't answer your question, but those are the printers I would look at were I buying a new one. Stay clear of Makerbots, their quality is very questionable on the Gen 5's Alternative to the flashforge, monoprice just put out their own branded flashforge version as well.
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MickRaider posted:Stay clear of Makerbots, their quality is very questionable on the Gen 5's This, forever. Also Makerbot turned their back on the community that they came from, if that matters to you at all. The Flashforge is probably the best bang for the buck at the moment, having two extruders is silly, until it isn't.
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Kinda aiming for the printrbot simple metal. Looks nice and basic to start with and its super cheap, which is a big deal.
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I'm looking at putting together a mendel90, the sturdy variant, since I'm equipped to do mdf all day long. But man, all those printed parts. I've found kits that are just the printed parts for $75, is that reasonable or silly? Anyone know a better source? I'm trying to put this together for our budding makerspace, and we have a puny (basically non-existent) budget for now, so I'll probably be donating anything I have to buy.
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MickRaider posted:Flashforge Creator seems to be a good entry level printer. Basically the replicator 1 with dual extruders. I'm interested why the Makergear M2 isn't in this list. I have been researching good "my first printer"s and all signs seem to be pointing to the M2 as my impending purchase. The customer support and forums both seem to be spectacular and all the reviews say it's one of the easiest/more reliable printers out there. Thoughts?
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Bad Munki posted:I'm looking at putting together a mendel90, the sturdy variant, since I'm equipped to do mdf all day long. But man, all those printed parts. I've found kits that are just the printed parts for $75, is that reasonable or silly? Anyone know a better source? I'm trying to put this together for our budding makerspace, and we have a puny (basically non-existent) budget for now, so I'll probably be donating anything I have to buy. Where are you? Our Hackspace got a dibond mendel90 donated, I can print you a set of parts to pay it forward if you pay shipping 
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theparag0n posted:Where are you? Our Hackspace got a dibond mendel90 donated, I can print you a set of parts to pay it forward if you pay shipping Erie, PA. I would love that, and would see to it we paid it forward as well.
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nolen posted:I'm interested why the Makergear M2 isn't in this list. I have been researching good "my first printer"s and all signs seem to be pointing to the M2 as my impending purchase. The customer support and forums both seem to be spectacular and all the reviews say it's one of the easiest/more reliable printers out there. I only picked printers at or below 1k (Except the ultimaker) Were I to get something above 1.5k I'd go got the ultimaker 2 before the makergear. Though I value the aesthetic appeal of the Ultimaker 2. Makergear seems good, but for the price it's probably not significantly better than the far cheaper flashforge. UberVexer posted:The Flashforge is probably the best bang for the buck at the moment, having two extruders is silly, until it isn't.
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MickRaider posted:I still don't know why people hate on multiple extruders. Dissolvable support is awesome. Speaking of, I'm using HIPS and honestly it doesn't help much. I'm using it for standard supports in MakerWare, should I just make the HIPS parts solid? As it is, supported curves turn out so badly I may as well have not used any support at all.
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