[Noisebridge-discuss] Replicator Problems

[Elijah Post]

Sounds like a plan for Wednesday (among other things). :)

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Gian Pablo Villamil
<gian.pablo at gmail.com>wrote:

> The other thing to check is the Y splitters that carry current to the
> steppers and extruder.
>
> The extruder should be directly connected to the power supply, not via a
> splitter. The Z axis can share a connection (via splitter) with the X or Y,
> since these never all run at once.
>
> You are using a Mk6 with power resistors on that machine. The solder joint
> to the resistors is a point of failure, that joint gets hotter than the
> melting point of electronics solder. We have plumbing solder at NB, use
> that instead. I also have a ton of spare power resistors, and heatproof
> Teflon wire.
>
> If those joints fail, it will try to heat the block using only one
> resistor, and it will take much longer, and eventually fail.
>
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Elijah Post <elijahpost at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Elijah, check the voltage on the 12V rail coming out of the power
> supply for the ToM.   I had a similar problem with my modified Cupcake
> machine, and it turned out to be the power supply giving out."
>
> Sweet, I shall learn to do this on wednesday.
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil <
> gian.pablo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll bring back White Rabbit soon. In the middle of an epic pre Xmas
>> print binge.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Elijah Post <elijahpost at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was here from 1000 to 1800 and was not able to print anything. On
>> Wednesday we need to fix a few things. Problems include:
>>
>> HBP for NutJob is totally broken. I removed it and replaced it with an
>> ABP for the time being. It was like that when I got here.
>> Nick's Thing-o-Matic will not heat up very well and can't maintain
>> temprature. When it does, it heats up about a third of a degree per minute.
>> The HBP won't heat up enough to make the ABS stick.
>>
>> Matt and I spent hours working on them to no avail. He managed to get a
>> few things printed, but we ended up not getting very much work done.
>>
>> I used three different versions of RepG, a plethora of different
>> settings, and each time I would solve one problem, another problem would
>> come up.
>>
>> Additionally, these are currently the only two machines that are even
>> fully assembled at Noisebridge.
>>
>> We have some work to do on Wednesday.
>>
>> I did manage to laser almost every part of the platforms for the RepRaps
>> George and Gracie.
>>
>> Cheers. Girr.
>>
>> --
>> *Elijah Louis Spenser Post
>> Mechanic (San Francisco Bike Kitchen)*
>> *Participant (NoiseRep at Noisebridge)*
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>
>
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> Mechanic (San Francisco Bike Kitchen)*
> *Participant (NoiseRep at Noisebridge)*
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>


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