Day to Day Log

Interesting day ... Royal Mail delivered two parcels ... well almost ... had to scout around to find just where the smaller parcel had been left 30 minutes after the pack of MDF had been delivered. Eventually found it a few doors along and so now have bearings in the spool holders and the current print is in white, so the reel of filament is now on proper rollers so the rubber mallet can be put away. I'd had some success with other bit and so while waiting for the order of parts to lock t…

Concentrate on one thing at a time?

I am currently looking at 'Slicer Flow Calibration' which is the next step on Martin's list after the Baseline Print. The only real problem with the first test cube was a little bit of gapping in the top surface, which was pointed out as being due to low volume of extrusion. The magic fix in Cura is to up the flow rate a little so I jumped in with my size tens and tried 110% which when printed was a little high, then I realised that of…

Definitely making progress ...

Although with little hiccups. Such as not noticing that the Bowden tube bolt had worked loose, so a print of the 3DBenchy in red failed about an hour in. It's running again and has about 30 minutes to go, but it's looking as good as the black one I printed yesterday. I've printed a couple of spool mounts in black as well, and will run a red set next, followed by white ones. Colour coordinated with the filament, and I just need a box now to…

Concentrating on calibrating the X5SA, by lunchtime on Sunday I had all four corners of the bed producing clean test patches as described by Michael in First Layer, but the middle patch was a problem and adjustment as not possible. The problem was down to a 0.2mm dome in the bed front to back which I needed to tighten down, but there are no knobs for as standard. I had one aluminium bar which I could use to add adjusti…

Why is nothing easy ...
Last night I spotted that while the laser printer is configured for 40 by 41cm, the ACTUAL full range is 15mm smaller and as a result the mdf I was cutting was messed up. I need to go back and reset the software for 385mm by 395mm! Still big enough for the 380mm sq profiles that freelaserfiles provide, but they need to be tighter to 0, rather than in the middle of a 40x40cm panel. I've managed to get two of three sheets cut correctly, for the start of the ma…