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3D Printing Update – Some of what’s Happened and What I’ve Learned
Oh heck! I have been neglecting my blog for long enough! Due to the dearth of posts on 3D Printing you might suspect that I haven’t done any at all! Maybe I gave up? Not on your life! A Makerbot...
View ArticlePrinting in PLA is Frustrating So Far
I have a Makerbot Replicator 2X 3D Printer. It can print in both ABS and PLA plastic filaments. So far, the only plastic I can get prints out of fairly reliably is ABS. I found some interesting info...
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3D Printing Journal Continued
I have started printing again after I got back from vacation. A lot of warping on a modest sized print in ABS plastic. It may be my imagination, but Makerbot’s Brown ABS filament seems to shrink and...
View ArticleWorking on Test Connector
Yesterday evening I started working again on the design of a female connection piece. The model I am working on (which I want to make copies of and give as gifts to family members) will use these...
View ArticleCrazy Ways of Designing 3D Printed Parts
So I got my female connection test piece working perfectly. My thought was Yes! I now have the measurements I need to implement connections on the actual model! Not so fast. I guess I just do not have...
View ArticleGetting PLA Prints to Stick Without a Raft
Printing in PLA on my Makerbot Replicator 2 with a raft is pretty reliable. There are a few problems with this though: I waste extra filament on the material to print the raft. Printing the raft...
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PLA Printing Saga Continues
I did a print on my Makerbot Replicator 2 in True Yellow PLA filament. It was truly a bear to remove it from the blue painter’s tape covered build platform. The print actually split/cracked some as I...
View ArticleThingiverse Ornament Challenge Entered
I designed 3 entries in Sketchup, each building off the previous entry. The first entry was a single ornament designed to be printed in translucent PLA plastic. The next entry was that same ornament in...
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Amazing Way to Remove PLA Prints from Build Platform
Ok, I own a Makerbot Replicator 2. It prints 3D objects in PLA plastic. Great! Cool! And so forth… One thing you notice if you own one of these machines is that the print sticks to the build plate with...
View ArticleTime-Out ,3D Printing Stuff, Web Stuff and More
I’ve been off of work since just before Thanksgiving and for the month December. After a really hard year of work I finally have time off. It is wonderfully strange! Extruder on my Makerbot 2 3D...
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