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Friday 2 August 2013

The Big Day

THE BIG DAY ARRIVED......

Well my filament arrived on time then i got cracking once I got up from having a nap from night shift, I had trouble levelling the bed from 0,0,0 as 200, 0, wast highest once tight so i went that way corner too corner and put bolt then nut then spring then bed then locking nut, as i had it before bolt, bed spring and just locking nut but it was fiddly trying to hold the allen key while turning the locking nut, i got that done i change a maker gear to another one as the new one was deeper and seemed to work better
then took my hotend of and did the extrude 10cm measure then do the sums to change the esteps which has worked just may need slight tweek on all axis i replaced everything and thought i give the perimeter test a try epic fail did do what it should of done so i decided to try this instead
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:45225

Heres a couple of pictures

Then i thought hey Who dares wins as ive just watched only fools and horses ill try the fand duct i designed for my extruder http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:82412
first attempt failed do to filament spool fell on the base my printers sat on so i restarted and didnt turn out too bad bridging is my problem but thats prob down to speed settings as theese are printed from basic settings in slicer

Heres some pics of the fan duct




So i thought id best test it ou so i thought id clean up the cable tied fan on extruder stepper so i download this http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:82412 to check if the fan will cool the j head barrel and the object to see if it doesnt on the object i will see quality issues on print. also i had to change the controlled fan as the one original on the motor wired to be on constant was swapped around i will get around changing it over.

heres some pics of the motor fan holder/duct 





heres some pics of the fan attached and on the printer 







ok thats me done for today its been a long one






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