Failed, but big prints

Aug 28, 2010 18:44


Well, the raft was beautiful until the extruder failed and started stripping plastic on the first print layer. For the record, that raft is 125x148mm.


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maskedretriever August 29 2010, 03:50:31 UTC
I've been eying that MK5 extruder a lot lately...

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revar August 29 2010, 09:07:28 UTC
Me too.

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revar August 29 2010, 09:09:01 UTC
My extruder body seems to work fine but it's undermined by the flawed hot end. You still want a copy? I dunno if it can work with the Mk5.

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maskedretriever August 29 2010, 17:57:58 UTC
I think I'm going to Make Do until it's time to do the full transition to MK5. And what might wait for the next MakerBot I get.

Gad, there are so many technological steps between this and the general assembler... early adoption is going to be expensive -__-;

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points August 29 2010, 21:51:57 UTC
I wonder if you can toss some kind of flow check on the head, so the program is paused when the feed strips...

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