Going to run out of filament near end of print!

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Re: Going to run out of filament near end of print!

Post by jdacal » Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:12 am

Giving it another shot tonight. No worries about filament this time, have a huge reel of PLA this time around.
Also got the new Raspberri Pi in today and its working great. Not sure if its because this one came with a different wi-fi adapter but uploads are much faster, and Octopi is much more responsive in the browser.

Anyway this print is a tool holder that will go next to the printer not on it, supposed to take about 41 hours printing so my fingers are crossed. Re-adjusted everything on the printer today. The bed leveling, Z, and tension on the filament. Seems to be printing real pretty at the moment. Also made some design changes to the original print. I already had the allen wrench holder from Thingiverse but the longer allens seemed to rub agains the reel. So I put a holder on the new print to handle those.

If you want a peek at it over the next two days and my webcam server cooperates here's the link again:

http://enctrading.com/printcam/index.html

I'll play around with those issues I had during the reel change with Octopi during the week after this print is done and report back. I did report the issue I was having with the streaming not showing up on the control tab and turned out to be a bug. The software was tagging on some extra information to the URL for the streaming. I shouldn't say it was a bug, maybe it was just designed to work with the Pi camera and I'm using an IP wi-fi camera with it.
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Re: Going to run out of filament near end of print!

Post by sprior » Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:19 am

Which Foscam are you using?

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Re: Going to run out of filament near end of print!

Post by jdacal » Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:50 am

sprior wrote:Which Foscam are you using?
This one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F5C ... UTF8&psc=1

If your thinking of getting one I'd go for the black one to match the printer. I messed up and ordered the white. Also, its kind of bulky - but only one I've seen with good picture quality in the price range.
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Re: Going to run out of filament near end of print!

Post by jdacal » Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:39 am

Success!

This thing holds the following:

- Complete set of metric feeler gauges
- Complete set of standard feeler gauges
- Complete set of miniature files
- Razor blade scraper
- 5 spare razor blades
- Alcohol pads
- long needle nose
- standard needle nose
- spatula
- small screwdriver
- wire cutter
- countersink
- dial micrometer
- micrometer
- digital calipers
- wire brush set
- Z stop
- set of allens that came with M2
- canola oil dispenser
- Elmers glue stick
- razor knife
+ room for odds and ends in the back pocket and the front tray!

Really cleaned up the area around my printer at a tremendous cost! :)
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Stats from Octoprint. Printed at 50% in-fill Medium PLA with supports
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Front View
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Right Side
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Left Side
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I'll probably never print anything this big again, but had to try it at least once. :)

The only issue I had was a couple of loose strands and something kind of weird that I can only describe as "ghosting". Anyone see that before? Its like it did the feet and there were concentric circles in one direction. Not really extruding out but kind of like "ghosts" of the actual extruded foot. Noticed this ghosting in the area of the letters as well. Didn't take a picture but will try to later.

I'll try to add a timelapse to the post later on.
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Re: Going to run out of filament near end of print!

Post by jsc » Tue Aug 19, 2014 2:40 am

Reduce X/Y acceleration down to 1000 or 800 to reduce ghosting.

Search for "M201" in the M2 tips thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12

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Re: Going to run out of filament near end of print!

Post by jdacal » Tue Aug 19, 2014 5:12 am

jsc wrote:Reduce X/Y acceleration down to 1000 or 800 to reduce ghosting.

Search for "M201" in the M2 tips thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12
Thanks, I found it in the S3D start code settings. X was set at 1200 brought it down to 1000.
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