Some video of current print speed

I printed this little toy catapult that appeared on Thingiverse recently http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:23051 . Can't say it chucks a penny very far, which is probably a good thing since it got taken to school by my son the following day! I'm sure the teacher just loved me for printing it! :-)I shot a little bit of video of it printing. If I recall the settings correctly I'm running 40mm/sec on Perimeters and 60mm/sec on infill, first...

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Simple control of heated bed...

Printing without a heated bed has it's limits. Larger objects begin to curl at the corners and lift off the bed. The plastic just doesn't sit well. I had reached the limits of what I could print without a heated bed so decided to build one. There are a few designs out there, just search under "heated bed" on the RepRap wiki. I chose an aluminium plate with heat resistors as a starting point. I had some scrap aluminium to hand.The Gen6 electronics...

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Y-carriage upgrade.

If you're like me, initially buying just the bare essentials and building practically everything else around it, you will at various stages along this road want to, if not need to, replace and improve many parts of you printer construction. So it was with my y-carriage, the old one pictured below.I printed four lm8uu bearing holders (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10287). There are many to choose from. I chose these ones because they stand the...

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Double bearings for y-belt.

I've placed double bearings on either end of my y-axis for the belt to travel over. The belt settles in to it's own path. Various previous arrangements invariably led to some level of side-wall friction. Replacing bearing fenders with double bearings, has proven a cleaner solution. Thanks to MaxBot (MendelMax) for this suggestion in a comment a couple of posts back. I've noticed others adopting this solution. Keep it in mind if you...

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