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I wanted to see what happened on why my mod failed. I had made  fixture to turn my blanks.  Basically put a piece of 3/4 bar in the collet chuck of my lathe and then single point bored it for … Continue reading →

We’ll for PLA the qu-bd mbe stock design leave much to be desired, but I must say they ship spare parts  darn fast.  I placed and order for a heater and a few spare nozzles and it shipped same day.  … Continue reading →

I had done  a bunch of retrofits to my qu-bd printer, the last of which was installing a  PTFE liner, from the rework here. buildlog.net • View topic – 15 min fix for jam free QU–BD .   This fix worked … Continue reading →

I had gotten about 20-30 hours out of the last modification and I than I had a extrusion failure. Initially, I thought I thought, the failure was the pla seizing on the nut holding the hollowed out M6 threaded rod … Continue reading →

I finally got my printer working nicely..  I’ve been using a heavily modified qu-bd extruder.I hobbed my own gear wheel and did the modification where a bearing presses against the filament which presses against the gearwheel.  The problem that I’d … Continue reading →

So.. I found this guide to calibration so I thought, I work through it.– http://reprap.org/wiki/Triffid_Hunter%27s_Calibration_Guide X-Y steps. I’m using belts/pulleys that I had picked up from inventables. https://www.inventables.com/technologies/mxl-belting-open-ended https://www.inventables.com/technologies/plastic-mxl-pulley-dual-flange X-Y steps = motor_steps_per_rev * driver_microstep / belt_pitch / pulley_number_of_teeth So… … Continue reading →

To anyone reading this, my apologies on the roughness of these notes…  I’m sure there’s plenty of typo’s grammar mistakes.  I was sort of time-strapped when I did this. It was sort of irritating that I had to reformat my … Continue reading →

Back from vacation…   So..  I wound up sending my ramps 1.4 back to Ultimachine and they fixed my problem.   They fixed it for me no-cost..   I’m suspecting it was part of my own stupidity that led to this failure,  so … Continue reading →

Ok… Things are not going to good. My Y-axis on my ramps 1.4 stopped working  I’m reasonable certain into not the pololu and it’s not the motor. I’m wondering if there is some type of weld solder failure in the … Continue reading →

Some how I didn’t get the memo that I needed to calibrate my Polulu’s on my ramps 1.4.   As this is my first 3d printer that I’m working on,  I can and do forgive myself 😉 .    So this is … Continue reading →