Comments on: 3D Printer Surgery #1 Z Axis Handle http://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle 3D Printer usage and modifications plus Arduino powered electronic projects and 3D Printing designs. Sun, 08 Jun 2014 11:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3 By: Highcooley (Andreas Hochuli)http://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/#comment-64 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:57:13 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=95#comment-64 Many thanks for your hints. It finally worked, yessss :-)
Fortunately, I didn’t have to go as low as 60 seconds per layer but could stay with the 15/20 mm/s.

Cheers,
Andy

]]> By: Mark Heywoodhttp://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/#comment-63 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:47:52 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=95#comment-63 At a guess, your layers are not cooling fast enough to accept the next layer which causes just printed layers to be moved out of shape before they have a chance to set.

Also, because the layers are small, the hot end slows cooling.

Some people have a fan on their 3d printer to blow across the layers with good results at higher printing speeds.

However, Skeinforge has a Cool tab that you can activate. Just set Minimum Layer Time to 60 seconds, this will give each layer a minute to set before taking the next layer. Printing will be a bit slow, but the results are good.
Hope this helps,

Mark

]]> By: Highcooley (Andreas Hochuli)http://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/#comment-62 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:13:17 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=95#comment-62 Hi Matt

I’m having a hard time printing your nice handle. Do you remember the temperature and speed settings you used? For the 4th attempt, I went down to 15mm/s for perimeters and 20 mm/s for infill at 195°C with a min. layertime of 15s. This attempt is currently running and I don’t know yet, if this will work for the shaft.

Cheers,
Andy

]]> By: Fixer (Matt Southgate)http://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/#comment-6 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:32:41 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=95#comment-6 Opps, I just spotted the download link for the scad files at the end of your post. I’m learning OpenSCAD and working with files I will actually print and physically handle (bad pun intended) is helpful.

]]> By: Fixer (Matt Southgate)http://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/#comment-5 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:28:30 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=95#comment-5 Nice and it looks great. I imagine this part will be on many a SumPoder’s list of things to printed when they finish their machine. Sharing stuff on Thingiverse is a good idea, but could you also include scad file.

Matt aka Fixer

]]> By: richard sumhttp://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/#comment-4 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:51:52 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=95#comment-4 Excellent work.

]]> By: Mike Freeman (Brixham Engineer)http://airtripper.com/95/3d-printer-surgery-1-z-axis-handle/#comment-3 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:38:11 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=95#comment-3 Nice work! It proves the whole concept of 3D printing as anyone with the access and printer can make one. No postage, or delays anywhere in the world!

You may want to consider putting the .stl file on Thingiverse since that allows easy access to your design. I put my printing table clips (9 downloads), SD card reader bracket (just listed, 2 downloads) and a plain Z axis handle (like yours better :), 14 downloads) so others can share you efforts.

Mike (Brixham Engineer)

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