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Oct. 3rd, 2011
Hotend - leaving for another time
Oct. 3rd, 2011 06:34 pmOver the weekend I screwed around with trying to make a hotend, but IMO it's beyond my ability to drill a 0.35mm hole in brass. All I did was break drill bits. Seriously, those are tiny bits. If I saw one on the table I'd think it was just a random bit of wire. It's pretty much impossible to not break one.
MakerGear sells full hotends ready to go for $75, and nozzles for $10. I bought one of each. I do not think I will ever try drilling my own nozzles again but I may make a whole hotend with a $10 purchased nozzle, I will try that. However I don't know what thread those take.
My linear bearings showed up today so I can go a little farther on the build.
MakerGear sells full hotends ready to go for $75, and nozzles for $10. I bought one of each. I do not think I will ever try drilling my own nozzles again but I may make a whole hotend with a $10 purchased nozzle, I will try that. However I don't know what thread those take.
My linear bearings showed up today so I can go a little farther on the build.
Tried printing something different today
Oct. 3rd, 2011 10:14 pmThis is the first object that maxed out the Z axis (height) on my printer. Vica Illusion sculpture from Thingiverse.
Computer problem solved
Oct. 3rd, 2011 10:23 pmI finally sat down and solved a problem that's been plaguing me for quite a while now.
Thumb drives and memory card readers plugged into the USB on my machine have been either completely inoperative or at least unstable, connecting and disconnecting every few seconds to minutes, making it impossible to read files from SD cards. Not all USB mass storage was affected.
I had even ordered a new card reader thinking the old one was just dying. But yesterday I plugged in a nice 16GB thumb drive that I have only used on other machines recently, and it didn't work either. After being plugged in for about 2 minutes, Windows came up and said the drive needed to be formatted, but when I said "OK" it said it couldn't complete the format.
Long story short, it was the IOGear Bluetooth dongle I bought a couple of months ago. After yanking that and uninstalling the drivers for it, all is back to normal again.
Thumb drives and memory card readers plugged into the USB on my machine have been either completely inoperative or at least unstable, connecting and disconnecting every few seconds to minutes, making it impossible to read files from SD cards. Not all USB mass storage was affected.
I had even ordered a new card reader thinking the old one was just dying. But yesterday I plugged in a nice 16GB thumb drive that I have only used on other machines recently, and it didn't work either. After being plugged in for about 2 minutes, Windows came up and said the drive needed to be formatted, but when I said "OK" it said it couldn't complete the format.
Long story short, it was the IOGear Bluetooth dongle I bought a couple of months ago. After yanking that and uninstalling the drivers for it, all is back to normal again.