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so wish me luck. i have embarked on my longest print ever today (14 hours 45 minutes!) the longest i have done so far is probably only 8 hours!

i had already found that, and to me it was like looking at alien language :(

just looked at your page another online aquaintance of mine has liked it also! what are the chances!

Im in the same baot a LePaul, with an ultimaker origonal, not a plus. so is the ultimaker origonal 12 volt not 24? so i would wire a second 12V fan in parralel?

So as i know nothing about electronics, i have been searching threads for different ways to get two fans on the ultimaker origonal. I understand that most are 12V, but the ultimaker pumps out 19v to the fans, but some people are saying wire in serial, others are saying wire in parallel, then talking about so much "lingo" i dont get. anyone can reccomend just a decent second fan, how to wire it in (serial / parallel) and i understand cable splicing will be required! Many thanks, 0235

so im not sure if this should go in the education thread, but i will put it here as it relates to fillaments. so apparently af ew years abck some studies were done about 3D printers (FDM i assume) that came up with some saying it was super toxic, others saying it was safe, but a study has been done that concluded 1) Pla is almost completely fine, and gives of some emissions, but that are slightly higher than normal, but lower than say sitting in a car 2) ABS should be used in a well ventilated room, another room you can vent, or if its in ther oom with you, some sort of extractor becuse of styrene gas Link to the article so all in all, not to bad for PLA, so far tests have shown its all good and waht we though, and ABS is probably as we all expected. somthing smelling that bad cant be good.

It printed, 5th time was a charm oh boy! new carry handle / picatinny rail for mr airsoft FPG (or FMG if you have played any of those video games) Shame it didnt quite fit haha! .6mm to narrow, and 3.2mm too short!

I think even the most advanced printers, people dont realise there is a certrain skill involved. we are still in the "made out of paper and glue using beavers tails" wright brothers age of filght when it comes to 3D printers, but far to many companies are selling them as auto pilot A380's. but yes, definately satire, if not very very true satire.

Found this on reddit. made me chucckle quite hard. rings pretty true, and should be an example to everyone who thinks its all "press a button and go, no skill involved" would love to see a series of these. 3d printers the ultimate rage machine Reddit thread

I work at a polyethylene foam factory, and have access to a HUGE XY plotter table, so designed and cut out of foam a sound insulation / sort of heat retention box. cut from 28mm thick foam, then with 25mm foam black highligts (just swap out the white and black pieces for prettyness)

Innofil PLA looks great! and its on a spool!

I set the main print speed at 30mm/s, and then tend to manually set it to 80% speed on the machine, and any less than 210degrees C i am never able to get any fillament to loook good, i think the calabration on my baoard may be slightly off as reccomentded temperature guide lines never work for me. so im printing at a slightly hotter than normal temperature, and a slightly slower speed, with old, but still within tollerance fillament. could it just be a dodgey run?

So ultimaker origonal, using teh ultimaker controller, using the stock SD card (that my be the issue) just installed my new hot end (including the thermometer and thermistor) so all new parts to clear up the manky parts. so third attempt at the attached part. first two times, the fillament got stuck, had an issue where the electric thermometer actually got discmmected and i think just fused some fillament solid inside the hot end. but this time, it just stopped. I notice there is no noise, go over and its got part way, and the head is all the way over to the left, still heated, and a bit of fillament stringing out. but note xtruding, no error on screen. couldnt continue print from the menu. checked all my belts and grub nuts and everything is tight! so could it just be badly sliced Gcode? i have a bit of a dodgey card reader, and still using the SD card that came with my ultimaker controller, but i have never run into an issue before. I am doing some test prints on other things now. but i thought 3rd time would be a charm EDIT UPDATE: after looking closer i notice that my temperature readfing flugtuates like mad. hopping between 198, then to 210, then to 200 as each "tick" of the frequency the ultimaker controller screen updates. obviously its not really doing this, but is reading wrong? Mediafire download for .STL file

well after measuring it along quite a few points and unwinding most of what was left, my cheap claipers were showing the same diameter as fillament brought just weeks ago. I do store all my fillament in sealed bags, containers, and with silica gell packs. i think it was just the age of the nozzel. however, new problem, new thread. joyus

Hahah! yes, "like new, already assembled"

Well time has finally come, its been over 2 years of weekly printing, many different colour changes, and lots of jams (and improper tools to fix those jams!) oh what 2 years does. you never quite notice till you change it and bbbonus round, here are some of my "transitions" between colours. hoping to fill a shelf of them one day!

so I have recently got back into 3D printing stuff i have designed after taking a long time just printing stuff for otehr people. sadly after using some lovely colorfabb black, then bule, i switched over to some Olive fillament. Now it has never been the nicest stuff to put throught my Ultimaker origonal kit, (see long history of over angry posts) but recently my nozzel has just gome completely clogged, so clogged that this time round there was no way of clearing it, and i have had to buy a new one. But I have had little issue with othoer colours, just the Colorfabb Olive. it appeares to stop for no reason, then the fillament gets chewed up by the knurled bolt. Could it be age of the fillament? its nearly 2 years old, a bad run, or just worn out parts? see the rather gritty nozzle :/ and a few of the piece im trying to print. looks more than acceptable by my standards, far far better than what i was able to produce the last time i tried to print olive

Who wants to get C-C-C-controversial!! Some new rifle sights! adjustable for windage and elevation, however anyone with an extreamly keen eye will realise that, alas, this is not a real rifle, and is a very very heavily modified airsoft gun. Nice to be able to make somthing myself, that otherwise would have been a £50-£60 expense, when really i dont need the real life accuracy and tolerences for sport shooting.

already has some nice fat wheels on the back, so just lift up the front, wheel it out, and make sure i don't fall down the stairs!

HAHA! less "happy corner" more like "naughty cupboard". i may name my printer harry potter A cupboard in my house fits the trolley and "sound proof" hood i made perfectly. makes getting to it when it jams a little tricky, but makes it so so quiet sealed away, and means there is at least 1 air gap now between mine and my neighbours house!

Thank you for giving us valuable feedback. Could you explain in a bit more detail what's wrong with mobile use? For example which mobile you use and which browser, and which pages are not working properly? Thanks for the help I am using samsung galaxy S5 mini (previously sony erricsson mini pro, but that's another story) using the default android browser. stuff is just very slow. if i type too fast (more than one "keystroke" every second, it lags, and starts jumbling up the letters. i think auto correct confuses it a bit, as is evident by all these red squiggly lines I'm about to start right clicking, it is necessary for me! I should be too harsh though. its hard to forget someone, hell even a whole team, likely spend months and months on this, as when you spend months on something, you tend to take stuff for granted, and get cosy with it.

They don't wonder, They know. That's why they keep previous OS for as long as possible. They don't force you to change... for now. At some point, they will but it's understandable. Like with XP right now. Software developpers and Microsoft agreed that it was time to move on so they shut it down. It was too outdated and technology was moving too fast for this OS. New OS are always sources of problems with CAD softwares. I guess it has to do with how the datas are being processed or else (I'm no computer engineering so i'm only guessing). That being said, i still strongly feel that they should stop making new OS every other year... yet they offer the free upgrade for 1 year to people happy with 7 and 8, yet us on systems that we want to upgrade (vista, shudder) they are abandoning us :/

I personally use car body masking tape. Not as much of a "grain" as normal interior decorating stuff, but boy does it stick to my printing bed! Honestly worrying when a masking tape is too sticky. Probably us lot love it, but decorators are getting frustrated

And Ms wonder why millions of people are still on xp and win7

Mostly stuff other people have made. Props, model making / railway stuff etc. At the moment I have been doing some prototype work for a secret design project. Sometimes I take already existing non 3d printable files and hack them up to become printable. Also do I consider myself a 3d designer? Well I'm getting paid to do it freelance and at my full time day job, even if my freelance stuff is much more basic and my professional job is designing packaging foam in 3d, so nowhere near the beautiful organic or mechanical designs some people can do.