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I like to make stuff. I recently switched to the Kliment fork of the TonokIP fork of the Hydra-MMM firmware. The tiny pauses between g-code segments are all but gone, and I’ve been re-printing some things. To do before & after comparisons. The black PLA-4043D Hyperboloid was printed with the Tonokip firmware, and the recent natural 4043D PLA was printed with the Kliment firmware. Both were printed through a MakerGear. Just few minutes in. Finished print, unretouched photo. March 31, 2011 Tags: 3D printer.
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thats a lot of extruders » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. Thats a lot of extruders. Just the thing for your next 6-color printer build. July 12, 2013 1 Comment. One Response to “thats a lot of extruders”. April 27, 2015 at 11:53 pm. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Custom sized reprap heater. Thats a lot of extruders. Custom sized reprap heater. 2016 Bill's Tinkers is proudly powered by WordPress.
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Tornado! » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. Single walled print at 0.17mm layers, with a 0.25mm nozzle on a MakerGear hotend. Slic3r gcode parameters are after the pictures. Generated by Slic3r 0.7.2b on 2012-05-06 at 01:09:14. Layer height = 0.18. Solid layers = 4. Fill density = 0. Nozzle diameter = 0.25. Filament diameter = 1.73. Extrusion multiplier = 1. Perimeter speed = 45. Infill speed = 80. Travel speed = 100. Extrusion width ratio = 0. Single wall width = 0.28mm. May 7, 2012 Tags: golvend. May 8, 2012 at 2:51 pm.
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Hyperboloid » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. Print of George Hart’s hyperboloid model from http:/ www.georgehart.com/rp/makerbot/makerbot.html. March 8, 2011 Tags: Hyperboloid. Thats a lot of extruders. Custom sized reprap heater. 2016 Bill's Tinkers is proudly powered by WordPress.
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Custom sized reprap heater » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. Custom sized reprap heater. I keep shattering glass printbed surfaces on my MendelMax printer. I suspect that it’s caused by the combination of using plain glass from old flatbed scanners, and that the glass is 1-inch bigger than the heater on all 4 sides. I made this custom sized heater by taping down nichrome wire, to the back of a piece of aluminum. Here are a few blurry phone-camera pictures. December 11, 2012 No Comments. Click here to cancel reply. Thats a lot of extruders.
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Hyperboloid » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. Print of George Hart’s hyperboloid model from http:/ www.georgehart.com/rp/makerbot/makerbot.html. March 8, 2011 Tags: Hyperboloid. 3 Responses to “Hyperboloid”. March 21, 2011 at 1:51 pm. I would love to know what your feed rate, flow rate, and retract settings are at that you get that beautiful of a print without any strings or blobs with PLA. Lucy C. Kriner. March 29, 2011 at 8:24 pm. Can I use your site as a reference for my high school paper? April 5, 2011 at 12:19 pm.
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Makergear » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. I recently switched to the Kliment fork of the TonokIP fork of the Hydra-MMM firmware. The tiny pauses between g-code segments are all but gone, and I’ve been re-printing some things. To do before & after comparisons. The black PLA-4043D Hyperboloid was printed with the Tonokip firmware, and the recent natural 4043D PLA was printed with the Kliment firmware. Both were printed through a MakerGear. Just few minutes in. Finished print, unretouched photo. March 31, 2011 Tags: 3D printer.
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Stirling Engine » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. While doing some cleaning I found this video of the Stirling Engine that I made in 2006, its running off the heat from a cup of hot water. July 7, 2011 Tags: metalwork. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Milled Reprap Heated bed PCB. Thats a lot of extruders. Custom sized reprap heater. 2016 Bill's Tinkers is proudly powered by WordPress.
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Milled Reprap Heated bed PCB » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. Milled Reprap Heated bed PCB. I milled a PCB heater for a Reprap, using a 10degree PCB milling bit. It works well, but draws a lot of power, 130 watts. PCB Heater, still cutting. September 25, 2011 1 Comment. One Response to “Milled Reprap Heated bed PCB”. December 13, 2011 at 2:14 pm. That pcb is a thing of beauty! Any chance you would put a price on cutting another one? Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Thats a lot of extruders.
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MendelMax » Bill's Tinkers
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I like to make stuff. I’ve finished building a MendelMax. 3D printer. The controller is a RAMPS 1.4 from Ultimachine. And the hot-end is a MakerGear. Plastruder, with a 0.25mm nozzle, pushing 1.7mm filament. I used the MendelMax “1.0″ parts, as the “1.5″ hadn’t been released when I started printing. I strayed from the stock parts in a few places, most obvious being the 3/4″ Thomson linear shafts used for the Y axis, and the tapered Y-motor mounting. Y Axis on 3/4 shafts. Z axis rides on LM8UU bearings.