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Yet Another Bowden Extruder

This is an extruder designed to be used with 3mm filament in conjunction with a Bowden tube between the extruder and the hot end, to help reduce the mass of the moving print head. The design objectives were to provide for a way to reduce the lateral loads on the gear reduction output shaft, securely […]

Ready for Launch

Ready for Launch

Retro Rocket 44 by Cerberus333 on Thingiverse. (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:126895) Three’s a charm it seems. The first two attempts were too hot and showed it. The third one, while not perfect, is an improvement.  

Laughing Buddha Timelapse

Here’s a video of http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29188 compressed down from about 3 hours to a minute and a half. Printed on a delta type printer in ABS. The bed of the printer wasn’t mounted tightly enough horizontally, causing the strips across his belly.

A Thing a Day

A Thing a Day

As a relative newbie to 3D printing I need lots of practice. So I’ll be posting something newly printed each day. Here’s the first one. It’s one of  hakalan’s scripted vases (search “scripted vase” in thingiverse.com) printed at 300mm (11.8″) tall. Other print info.: 0.20mm layer height MatterHacker gold PLA 40mm/sec. print speed 0.05mm jHead […]