Tuesday 18 of November, 2025
Strange day ... started by taking the large bed support off the 3D printer. It finished over night so not quite the 26 hours quoted. I then had a phone call from the roofing contractor to meet around the garage in 5 minutes! Quick grab of coat and shoes and brisk walk around, and I was waling down towards the garage as they drove down. Bottom line, the roof panels need replacing due to cracking, but they are asbestos, so not a simple rip off j…
Monday 17 of November, 2025
Bit of fun over the weekend ... pulled a car load of damp kit from the garage and have it drying in the hall at the moment. But still managed to progress a few things such as cutting the remaining parts for the third section of the marble run setup from FreeLaserFiles.
Modular base for the marble run, although it actually uses 12mm steel balls. There are two options for the 'run' of…
Saturday 15 of November, 2025
Things are definitely going well at the moment, and I'm learning a lot. Although the first lesson is to triple check an order when placing them on eBay were there are dozens of parts buried in the one listing. I'd sorted the bits for the synchroniser for the z-axis on the 3D printer, and then realised I'd ordered the wrong bore size for one of the pulleys. Added the right one, but then deleted the belt rather than the wrong pulley. Did not notice until I'd paid! So cancelled o…
Thursday 13 of November, 2025
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…
Wednesday 12 of November, 2025
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…