Heated Bed is Hot!
While on vacation over the weekend I took advantage of an offer to use a drill press at my sister in laws work. (Which just so happens to be a military base, so its like I was using my own … Continued
Back printing, NylonX, and X Carriage wiring updates
Back Printing: Using the MatterHackers NylonX, which is a Nylon 12 based Carbon Fiber loaded filament. This is in contrast to the nondescript but rumored Nylon 6 used in CarbonX. Nylon 12 is a bit lower friction, smoother, and has … Continued
A little cut here, a little twist there, and we are back in business.
With a dremel, a big flat blade screwdriver, a little bit of force and the heat block, and the Titan Aero heatsink were free of the broken Titanium heat break. This leaves a small cut in the heatsink and in … Continued
Broken printer, is really broken now
Not content with minorly breaking and fixing things, I went all out this weekend and reallllly broke the AM8 i’ve been printing the parts for my new printer with. I’ve been struggling in the last week with the heat block … Continued
Broke a printer, printing a printer
So my trusty heavily modified Anet A8M is on the fritz… After printing pretty good through 6 rolls since it was rebuilt in early winter… It’s gone funky. 2 pulleys have failed, and now that think linear bearings on the … Continued
Wire work and LEDs
LED madness! Tonight was some code work and LED wiring. After ordering the wrong polarity of RGB LEDs last time I got the proper ones in for this main board (Common Anode). They are setup and coded to have different … Continued
Posted my Duet3D Duet and Duex electronics mount to Thingiverse
As part of this project I plan to upload most of the designs and such to Thingiverse as the finishing of this project. The Duet and Duex mount I designed to go under the printer has been requested a few … Continued
Video of the homing of all 4 axis
Over the weekend I also got the BLTouch all setup so I can home all 4 axis now. Exciting times. I need to get the mounts done for the hot bed, but I am also waiting on a different 330×330 … Continued
All 3 axis are mounted on the printer and working
This weekend, a ton of progress was made. All 3 of the Axis were mounted and tested. Some wiring was done(or tested at least), and test movements have happened for all the major components. Issues during the build out: LEDs… … Continued
The Build – its happening!
In a sort of knee jerk move, the printer frame is together! I didn’t expect or plan to start building, but when I was trying to figure out the acrylic sheet sizes for the base to mount the electronics on, … Continued
Electronics mount, Updates, etc…
Limited progress overall: So in the last few days, a few things are conspiring against this project. Not only am I still working to figure out WTF is going on with the CarbonX filament I received, but Amazon has seemingly … Continued
Updates, Electronics, Filament headaches…
Over the weekend a lot of things got done, and a lot of things got started. Having my phone camera out of commission has limited some of the pictures I am taking through the project; new phone should be here … Continued