innkeeper, you and I must have found the same source! lol most likely... i cut mine this weekend and have been working on the warping....so i haven't even got to print on it yet,... the warping is pretty significant. heated it up to 100, and flipped it after a bit, and still warped the other way.. ...

been there done that. Beautifully cnc'ed has functional flaws and frankly i find it very disreputable there still selling it. My humble advice, having fitted it to an m2 myself...Get your money back as soon as you can. threads on the topic http://forum.makergear.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2040 http://...

Is there any other brand of metal fill that works well? I mainly just need to be able to polish it to look like an actual piece made of metal So far i haven't found anything worth trying. there is some chinese 40% metal filament on ebay, but i haven't found anyone who has tried it. you can get .25k...

inland works for me...cheap and its a local pickup...

i am going to cut up my 1/4" peice of scrap 2300 pei this weekend...i think i can make two build plates out of it. I plan to use it like i do my mic6 or the zebra plate and clamp it right on the anodized aluminium. it is a bit thicker then 1/4" maybe closer to .275 there is a rough side and a smooth...

for the most part, if you can keep your filament stored at relatively low humidity, it will last a while... i have filament that 3 years old, that i recently used... and it was all good. i've had filament break down in less time... and i think it has noting to do with the storage temperature, but mo...

follow up on the shaxon filament... I did finally get a reply from SHAXON on their metal infused pla density. the density is 1.24 g/cm3 which is the same as plain ole PLA. so like eSun's Bronze filament, there is very little actual metal content. I confirmed their density they gave me by actual weig...

Here is what i do. when going from one type of filament to another, i will use cleaner filament at the temperature of the previously loaded filament or perhaps a couple of degrees higher to make the old filament more 'liquid'. once i have purged out the old filament successfully using the cleaner fi...

I've done this under my MB with sailfish firmware which has ditto printing... cool feature... I used it a few times when i was making many copies of a very small print. it was limited to the size because of the fixed distance between heads...having the ability to have the heads at much wider distanc...

I've been looking into some large format 3d printers recently... but noting really floats my boat at a cost i am willing to pay. i've been toying with the idea of building my own. lots of stuff out there though... a few here run multiple m2's and are very happy. best place to learn about a printer i...