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Joined: Tue Oct 13 2009, 09:47PM
Location: Chico, CA. USA
Posts: 5639
Oh yeah, un-boxing ceremony !
FlashForge Creator , single extruder, wood case. ABS, PLA, HIPS, PET capable. 6x6x9 in build volume. 700 US$, Heated build plate.
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1kg ABS spool and the machine. This spool is 64 inches cubed, which means 0.50 $ per cubic inch of ABS or PLA.
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A suspicious piece of loose plastic ! ( This does not bode well )
A second piece fell out from the extruder upon unwrapping.
Surprise ! the two pieces fit perfectly the broken fan. Sigh... FlashForge has a reputation of making things right supposedly, so we'll see. I expect theyll make this right, by sending me a new fan.
continuing on... SD card printing or USB conection. Thus a sleep mode on the computer wont kill the in process print (using the SD card).
Builld table, covered in kapton tape. Heated up to 120C. 6x9 inches. .
Spool!
Spool Holder!
Extruder nozzle wrapped in yellow insulation, 0.4mm diameter. seen here with stepper motor, fan and filiment feed.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:43AM
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These things require a bit of maintenance with use. It looks like you have a metal extruder head... These type of print heads can be far less forgiving than the low temp PET lined ones.
Tip: Foam soaked in mineral oil wiping the filament can fix jams.
I “upgraded†the worn-out rep-rap Prusa j-head for an aluminum Geeetech one. Without the oil wiper, it jams with ABS like 3 times an hour...
Tip2: Homing the print head after each adjustment,
Get a 0.4mm feeler gauge to level the bed in each corner while hot or even your raft may not "stick".
Tip3: openscad is easy to learn... the GUI can be lame... but the objects make perfect STL files...
These things are very useful once you figure out how to get it to work correctly.
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Joined: Tue Oct 13 2009, 09:47PM
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Patrick wrote ...
Hazmatt_(The Underdog) wrote ...
Your "yellow insulation" is just Kapton tape. If you need to ever replace it, now you know what it is.
you mean on the table?
yes theres Kapton, but it looks like half millmeter of fiber insulation too. Im trying to install python, on mt windows 7 machine but she just refuses...
sigh, i cant get the USB driver to appear.
ok, ive got the machine working, so ill try a print in the next few hours.
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Joined: Sun Nov 14 2010, 05:05PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4245
Patrick wrote ...
Patrick wrote ...
Hazmatt_(The Underdog) wrote ...
Your "yellow insulation" is just Kapton tape. If you need to ever replace it, now you know what it is.
you mean on the table?
yes theres Kapton, but it looks like half millmeter of fiber insulation too. Im trying to install python, on mt windows 7 machine but she just refuses...
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I just want to say I've been playing around with my MakerGear M2 and have done about 20 prints. Everyone of them with ABS has come out perfect. I am using hairspray to keep the piece matted to the heated bed.
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