His posts on coating prints with a metallic layer using a rotary tumbler and screws are also quite interesting. How timely.... i just got a tumbler over the weekend (harbor freight sale) to try both using stainless steel media to final polish metallic filaments like colorfabb and to also try brass ...

seems cost effective to me if there making their own filament. if you consider a 55lb bag of most polymers can be had for about 150 bucks, that is a lotta jars for little cost. consider if you had them injection or blow molded elsewhere and get them shipped to you... its gonna be a lot more then tha...

What's everyone's favorite way to clear a nozzle of one filament before switching to another? Here is what i do. If i am going to like filament type but of different colors, i will just change filament and keep extruding until the color change seems complete. note, for some color/brands that can ta...

I've had freshly opened pla from microcenter (inland) break easily and have older pla i've had hanging around and forgot to store properly (2.5+ year old natural MG filament) be just fine. i dont do much pla printing, but had an oprotunity to do a large set of prints with pla and blew though all my ...

Thats pretty cool. the gcode coding part of getting it to do this would be straight froward enough. looks like an easy mod too.... my biggest fear is what happens when the part dosn't pop off. :shock: defiantly not something i would let run unattended. I have to admit, assembly line type capability ...

places like printbot sell the kit for the same price as the assembled model. frankly that makes sense to be because typically as a company, your going to end up spending a large amount of time supporting the builders. I suppose assembling it yourself is interesting. but frankly, since any company bu...

an electrician can check this out pretty quick.

i like it!
on my todo list

You can pick up one of those cheap clamp ammeters at harbor freight really cheap right now on sale.

plenty of leafy trees in NY. The state tree is the sugar maple. but there are plenty of other spices here. in fact, its rare for me to see a pine tree.