Using a Bowden cable on the reprap prusa cold end

This post is to document something that I thought was fairly standard , but after talking to a few people I discovered it isn’t. Some people (I’m looking at you jkeegan) even thought it wasn’t possible. I have been using thin hdpe tubing for some time to enable my extruder to unspool filament by itself. …

completely unsorted reflections on building a clonedel

1) Last weekend I completed drilling out my clondel kit and started bolting things together. Here’s a list of things I realized. 2) Having precisely cut threaded rods is nice, but not necessary provided they are longer than spec. 3) Drilling out the metrix createspace clonedel kit is difficult verging on impossible to do exactly. …

$10 DIY Makerbot filament spool

I can’t believe it took this long, but I finally had a bad filament tangle last week, and a few aborted prints because my old setup wasn’t working. I really needed to get my filament spooled so that it would nicely dispense, and not jam, tangle, or unspool. I really love the way the official …

assembling a metrix createspace molded wades extruder

I recently bought a molded reprap prusa mendel kit from Metrix create space. They are a hacker space in Seattle, Wa. The molded kits cost anywhere from a third to half of what a set of printed parts cost because they take far less time to produce. One downside of the printing method is that …