Thanks for the preliminary recommendation altan, when you do try it out please let me know how it goes

do you have glow in the dark filament , I looking for a spool need to print something for my daughter

That's very thoughtful of you. If you can try out some GID filaments, post up a pic and let us know how it goes.

well need to find someone selling it first lol, at the moment busy with my kossel, frame almost ready for electronics

Nice, I like the lime green joints. Can't wait for it to be fully assembled. Will it be belt driven or fishing line driven?

By the way, I just received my shipment of 3D printer parts, including the hot ends I have mentioned earlier.


Have not tried them yet but I have confirmed the nozzle size to be 0.3 mm. Hopefully the heater cartridge won't burn down my printer.

I probably gonna try fishing line to save cost , but now I need to settle some issues with my Mendel bed, seem the auto leveling does not compensate enough of the unevenness of the bed, already printed a new Y carriages for it need to install it tonight if i have the mood

btw PM me for the hotend, what the heater rated? 40w?

Fishing line is cheap and plentiful but its hard to find thick ones like 1 mm diameter ones, I am still searching for it . As long as the line can take the weight of the carriage and whatever is on it, it shouldn't be a problem. You might have to tension the line properly to have it run smoothly.

About your mendel bed, the unevenness of the bed could be due to the heater bed warping at different areas. The auto level can only do so much as to align the bed to a flat plane but not one that cancels out unevenness.

UGPM.

my bed are even flat I have tested it couple of time by putting a ruler across the bed (while been heated) don't see any gap ,

I think those 50lbs fishing line should do the trick

Maybe you have to check the carriage for bumps or bent linear rods which could also translate to unevenness since the bed isn't the culprit.

50lb, about 20 kg

indeed 20kg should be enough and i got it for free, I asked my friend who fish to give me some lol, I changed my mendelmax Y carriage and changed the LM8UU with a PLA Bushing

This post has been edited by DarkTenno: Jun 25 2014, 08:57 PM

Nice, you could also try changing your z-axis couplers to pla couplers. I have made PLA couplers for my 3D printer and have uploaded it to Thingiverse, http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:315736. You might want to try out printing couplers available for your printer.

using alu coupler atm, right now having leveling issues with my heat bed, not sure it firmware issues or my heatbead warped really bad when heated, can't get anything printed for now

Hmm, could be due to the changes made to the system. It can't be due to the firmware unless you have updated the firmware recently. Can you try printing without the leveling feature?

need to re-wired my Z endstop to do that kinda lazy to do that maybe I will order an extra endstop for Z, I will need to download a new source for marlin and start from scratch again

not sure if this my bed issues or what but object at the center of the bed print fine just the one on the far left and right are the problem here

This post has been edited by DarkTenno: Jun 27 2014, 12:06 PM

We do have glow in the dark filament, we just haven't retailed it off yet because we still in the midst of testing it. You are keen to have an early tester's batch- hit me a PM.

By the way, are there any 3D printing makerspaces in KL?

ok you got pm , I have not heard any active makerspaces in KL

any tips cleaning up jammed nozzle I think I have one because of these

Are these from the china supplier? Anyway, I am not too sure about your nozzle but you can try and take apart everything and soak them in acetone then use a sharp needle to pick out the blockage at the nozzle end.

manage to clean it using my heat gun extruding test a new batch of filament at the moment, yes it the same batch as before, I un-spooled it just now found a lot of contamination on the filament already thrown the filament in the basket bin, acetone can desolve PLA? i thought it only apply for ABS

Acetone will soften and expand PLA, doesn't dissolve. Since its Ebay, you might want to complain to the seller and maybe get a refund.