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by Dale Reed
Sun Apr 13, 2014 1:05 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Tracks
Replies: 4
Views: 9220

Re: Tracks

I have printed quite a few things and am happy to say my new M2 is working great. I have noticed that the prints seem to have lines across them were a small amount of material has oozed out while the hotend was traveling from a finish point to a new start point. Is there a setting that I can adjust...
by Dale Reed
Sat Apr 12, 2014 4:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bed drops quickly after print finishes
Replies: 12
Views: 25902

Re: Bed drops quickly after print finishes

Actually I got the idea from Jin. Others have also devised more elaborate end sequences to do different things like retract the filament and move the bed fan around to cool the print a bit. But fitting out a motion detector to send an email is a good one I hadn't heard of yet. On the printing PC no...
by Dale Reed
Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bed drops quickly after print finishes
Replies: 12
Views: 25902

Re: Bed drops quickly after print finishes

Brilliant Toby. Thanks! We'll definitely have some unattended prints and won't be there to catch it every time, especially with big overnighters. I'm thinking about rigging up a raspberry pi and a motion sensor to send out an email when the print finishes. I'll probably use the camera as a webcam s...
by Dale Reed
Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:41 pm
Forum: M2 Dual Extruder
Topic: Dual extruder
Replies: 25
Views: 40940

Re: Dual extruder

dave, rick posted a pic yesterday on the google group. not sure if you saw it. the hot ends do look very close together so i would imagine the X has not shrunk in size by too much. hard to tell though. All, Those are both 50mm fans, so you can scale from there. There's a neat trick they did with th...
by Dale Reed
Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: posting new topics??
Replies: 5
Views: 11643

Re: posting new topics??

Same here. Perhaps when we are promoted from "New" users (noobs) to "real" users!
Dale
by Dale Reed
Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:53 am
Forum: M2 Dual Extruder
Topic: Dual extruder
Replies: 25
Views: 40940

Re: Dual extruder

Don't know a date, but saw a prototype at MG HQ today. Likey likey.

Dale