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The spaghetti you've got going there is due to the overhang and cooling. You need to get a fan on there to cool the PLA as it's extruded. As I mentioned though, make sure to take apart that hot end. You might find something that's causing a lot of your gaps in the print. It does look like you're not...

I guess the upped the wattage for the V2s. The V1 I got a few months ago still ran the 450W.

Be very careful cutting the wires on the 25 pin connector, some of them (usually the 3.3V sense pin) are usually deliberately shorted at the connector and they need to stay that way. Whoops. Machine has been working fine for months, but i'll keep this in mind in case things start to go a bit buggy ...

Personally, I would pull that hot end apart. I would almost wonder if your PTFE tubing is missing inside or something. Leaking out the side like that is not normal. Were you still able to print properly?

While I love the idea of the tube and it looks slick, did you keep it far enough away from the bed to allow the extruder nozzle get to the edge of the build zone and not have the arms/effector hit it? In that last picture it looks pretty close.

You really should have had that thing on a heat sink of some kind. They generate quite a bit of heat. I'm no expert, but just looking at the unit, it appears it should be up to the task. Current rating was high enough and everything. It really looks like the only difference in the one you received a...

Please do! I've wanted to do this from the start but couldn't figure out the modifications to make in the firmware.

Really cool. Looks like you've got one hell of a build height. I actually brought the cad files for the V2 to a metal shop and was hoping to get the whole frame laser cut out of aluminum. The cost of the metal wasn't bad, but the cost of the laser cutting was high enough that I could have bought a n...

Mannnnn.... I literally installed 14.06 last night at 10pm. Why couldn't they have released this at 9:50pm last night?

Holy crap. That didn't look so big till I saw the stepper on the effector (zoomed in), then I noticed the chair in the room, then everything else! That thing is MASSIVE! How big is the final build area going to be?

JohnStack wrote:...Open-Source and Patents can co-exist if the patent is oriented towards the community. In other words, protect the IP so that the community can build it or build around it.

+1

Edit: Nooo, it is not bonding well to the styrene. I need to experiment with the first layer temperature and possibly slow it down to get the ABS to bond well to it. Darn! I was just reading this (cool idea by the way!) and I would have thought the same thing. Maybe you could jack up the temp of th...

teoman wrote:How do you mate 2 pieces of filament?

Is there a special process?

Just heat up the ends and melt them together. Then take a knife or what have you and shave off the bulge it makes so it's smooth right through.

I like all that. Very clean. It's good to have parts. What are you planning on using for the arms? Carbon fibre? Aluminum? I've got my balls where they're not falling off now, but had those pre-tapped balls been around when I was doing mine, it would have been awesome. Just remember that if you're u...

To be fair, I the way I build them here is "upside down" becausde it makes the blinky eyes the correct way when looking at the front of the machine.. besides that, after the "this is a better direction" line... I'm just going to sit back and enjoy this.. Guanu Upside down, insid...

Nice job on the parts! They look pretty damn good to me. I wish I knew some of the answers to your first post. I've wondered if there was a way to pause a print too so that a captive nut could be added or something similar. I know you could manually edit the gcode to pause and home the hot end and I...

Uhhh... In case you were indeed serious... that's not where the filament feeds into the EZStruder. Not at all.

That's a nice setup. Super clean looking. I've got parts and tools all over the damn place. I'm glad someone else digs the giant monitors! I'm running a 42" myself. What's more crazy though is the giant speakers pointed directly at you from the ceiling corners! Games/music must really be engagi...

Quick! Melt the green spool onto the end of the yellow and just have a different colored top!

That does sting though. That's too bad. The print looked really nice!

Or just get a higher wattage resistor.

It took a few attempts to get the print started, and I've had to shim my build plate in a few places with paper to try and get things somewhat even, but it's finally looking like it might be up to the task of doing the print. 20140623_213126.jpg Black PLA, 0.1 layer height. I chose the small layer ...

It took a few attempts to get the print started, and I've had to shim my build plate in a few places with paper to try and get things somewhat even, but it's finally looking like it might be up to the task of doing the print. 20140623_213126.jpg Black PLA, 0.1 layer height. I chose the small layer h...

Is it possible to unclog the original hot end nozzle? Is the E3D v6 hot and direct fit for the Rostock Max v2 or are there other mods required? Of course. Clogs are a pain in the ass, but common enough. There are numerous threads on here describing how to unclog the hot end. What I did was remove t...

+1 for the dampers. HUGE difference. 4-5 hours is very little time, but when you have MONTHS clocked on your printer and it's running right behind you.... as MDMD said "...you won't understand how you survived without them."

Heh! Nice job. Good for business!