http://www.thingiverse.com/make:322 posted instructions several years ago :) http://www.makergear.com/blogs/frontpage/1219892-oh-the-things-you-can-make A little history...how this happened was that the very early extruders (mid 2009) rarely worked...so we'd mark filament to see if it was moving. o...

...that is how we did this.

oh...a lock nut may crack the part when you try to tighten it. lock nut is not needed on the tensioner.

that is the tensioning screw and it should be loose for pla (at least 1mm gap). 215c to 225c should be fine. which makergear pla are you using?

abs or pla?

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mcmaster for small purchases

we buy in volume from a local distributor for machines

We really only recommend the kit for people who really, really want to put their machine together. For those individuals it is typically a fun, straight-forward process. When people buy kits to get the cost down, that can go south pretty quickly... Personally, I do not use an LCD controller and pref...

Please post the configuration files that you are using for the tools that you recommend.

To clarify, this is unrelated to S3D. We will continue to offer S3D and will probably put together a package including S3D. I am looking for software to include when people elect not to purchase S3D or don't want it from the get-go. But without causing a spike in support requests...