chriswarkocki

Learning...

I’ve been spending 5-6 hours a day in Solidworks and I’ve been able to rework almost every part of this custom printer. Learning so much and appreciating every bit of practice and knowledge in gaining.

I am starting to get confident enough to start designing my own printer from scratch. Heck of an undertaking and I have a ton of ideas and I think I have a unique idea for the design.

Now it’s time for sleep so I have the energy to finish the few pieces left on this printer....

Playing in Solidworks

As I wait for the last of the Voron 0 parts to print I’ve been brushing up on CAD because sooner than later I will finish a printer design.

I have a custom printer that’s been waiting to be upgraded so I decided I would sit down and practice the little I know in Solidworks and make a new electronics case. I hope to finish rough designing a new part each day for the rebuild and in time print test parts for fit and then do a full reprint.

This is not my normal day t...

First prints have begun for my teeny tiny Voron 0

This thing is so cute! Shout out to Jason from LDO for setting up a test kit in purple for me. I don’t love ABS so I’ve begun printing all the parts in Fusion Filament HTPET. Specifically the Red and Black HTPET. Been drying it overnight and first plate in red is going down.

Stay tuned for live build videos on the YouTube.

Alloy 910 & Buildtak observations

Overhangs. Overhangs suck. Well... extreme ones. If I increase cooling it helps squat since too much cooling causes curling and so does too little. In the end not a product you want to use for anything over a 45 degree overhang.

Overall the material is very easy to print and it’s extremely durable. Videos incoming on its strength. Would I buy this again??? Nope. $80 a kg and the tolerances suck while not having a heat deflection temperature equal to ABS seems silly.

Who is thi...

Taulmann Alloy 910 Nylon

Ugh... this stuff prints great but it’s tolerances are 1.71-1.62. I bought mine during a $40 per kg sale and it’s normally $80 a kg. Basically it’s poor for tolerance but it prints really well.

So far I’ve been testing the Buildtak Nylon sheet to great success. No warping with plenty of post print grip. Mind you I’ve only done a test cube and these carabiners.

My next prints will become more and more difficult to really give these sheets the tough tests they deserve. <...

My Christmas gift and coming tests!

Not the fanciest of Christmas gifts but I ended up snagging a Buildtak Nylon sheet to compare against my plain garolite sheet when it comes to printing... Nylon!

I already have a stack of flex sheets so I saved some cash by stocking up through the years.

After some very successful prints in Fusion Filaments HTPET I ordered a few more colors. Carbon Rod Black and Reactor Red. Didn’t even know but there is sexy micro glitter in the Red so I’m drying it now before I print a few ...

Stock M3S+ Incoming

Need to get back into making more profiles and seeing as Prusa has pushed back any news printers for a while it’s time to get a stock printer running once again.

Give me a couple weeks to get parts together and thanks to some donations of things I don’t have additional stock of that I normally would I’ll be up a d running in no time.

LGX first prints have begun.

I don’t have much that I can truly tell yet besides that retractions are super sexy.

Not sure why but retractions are just super clean. I don’t notice this on my hemera build but I could be mistaken.

Going to run the gauntlet on print tests and see what all happens from here and will share what I find as soon as I get a chance.

HTPET+ profile added to GitHub

Been sitting on testing this filament out and I have to say I’m quite happy with it.

Fusion Filaments who make epic HTPLA+ filament started making HTPET+ aka High Temp PET plus filament. It’s like higher deflection temp PETG without the G.

Why?

PETG added the G to be more flexible and easier to print at a cost of top deflection temp of 80C. HTPET+ uses other magic formulations to increase the base deflection temp to 100C. You lose some flex and minor hits to layer bond...

Universal LGX mount incoming.

Shout out to a Patron here mr Frank Dixon who’s not only been teaching me Solidworks but hammered out the prototype universal LGX mount.

The first print shows a few tweaks but hopefully some time later today I’ll have a mount printed with the adjustments needed and have a test cube.

Guess there truly is no sleep for the wicked.

Thank you a ton Frank and can’t wait to beat you in Warzone.

Just backed a sweet Kickstarter

This seems pretty epic to me. Quick changing to any extruder setup you Dream up or just having spares ready when things go badly is pretty darn exciting.

As always Kickstarter can be too good to be true but I’m really digging this and want to incorporate it into the SKR Bear project or a future project.

Let me know what you think!

Ideamaker profiles for days!

If you haven’t kept up with the GitHub I’ve been updating all the profiles like crazy for Ideamaker.

Every single profile has been updated to a V2 and includes PLA, HTPLA, TPU, PETG, CFPETG, 1.8mm nozzle, Etc and etc. Coming soon will be more speciality filaments like Nylons, Metalfills, OBC and so on.

Http://www.GitHub.com/codiac2600

1.80mm self drilled nozzle 😈

Had an interesting discussion with someone who was talking about how difficult it is to create profiles for these self drilled nozzles you see on the social media’s.

“Magic”

Using words like magic takes so much away from the fact a 3D printer is a just a glue gun strapped to a Printer. It’s all understanding the basic principles of material extrusion not magic.

Sure to those who are looking at this you’ve probably said to yourself that how can you print 1.75mm fi...

Bondtech LGX first hand!

With trying to keep myself as neutral as possible all I can say is this is heavier (con) than expected but it also feels incredibly durable and well built (pro).

As a complete hotend it comes in at 270g but in a palm size form factor which is insanity. All together it’s smaller than a Hemera while having a better gearing setup and hopefully far more reliable and consistent stepping. My biggest issue with the hemera is that the gearing (e-steps) varies greatly unit to unit. Bondtech i...

Discord Server is Fixed!!!

What's up awesome humans. I've FINALLY fixed the Discord server connection with Patreon. If you have Discord setup it will add you AUTOMATICALLY. You have access to your own section where we can chat and ask questions. 

Why? Patreon chat and messages suck. Discord is much more friendly and as an added bonus has ZERO ads and no politics. Yay!!!!

If you don't have discord I highly recommend it because it's fun, free, and we can hangout and chat.

See you soon!!!...

From CAD to reality!

For those who caught the stream last night we worked in Solidworks to make a tray for when I’m lure building. Added some magnets to help keep the parts in their compartments during wild arm throwing style discussions. Everything fit like a champ the first time too!!

I’ve uploaded the design to Prusa Printers for anyone looking for something similar for their own hobbies. https://www.pru...

Let's see if the time I spent learnign Solidworks has paid off!

If you didn't know there is a very cheap way to get Solidworks student edition for $36 a year. I signed up after the whole Fusion360 changing it's license thing for the 400th time and I actually enjoy it. I have a few things to make in CAD today so let's see if what I've learned has paid off.

Fixing the Taz 6

If you missed it Joel Telling with the help of the evil Dave Randolph sent me his original Taz 6. Shipping was rough and broke the stock extruder body and mounting plate.

What’s interesting is how the swappable hotends work on the Taz printers. It had a huge carriage with basically a French cleat that holds the extruder body in place while only needing one screw to attach the entire setup together. It’s sadly a loose fit so fast movement will definitely make the extruder...

Mysterious Package from Joel Telling

I was mysteriously sent a package from Joel Telling himself. I was given no prior information and it arrived this afternoon. All I know is that I've been told to open it up on stream and that it's possibly 3D printer related.

Join the fun and let's see what's in the box! Feel free to let me know your guesses!

Marlin 2.0.6 is live for testing!!!

I hopped onto youtube and made the first working Marlin 2.0.6 SKR project firmware and pushed it to github. 

For those willing to test their skills the base firmware is on the link provided. I'm still testing and if all goes well I will port all the base firmwares to 2.0.6.

3D printed speaker project!

Sorry I haven’t been updating everyone on the cool things but thanks to my buddy Dan I’ve been inspired to follow in his footsteps and print some speakers.

This is the brainchild of Paul from www.polymate3d.com and it’s super amazing.

I mean printed speakers!!! Something I would have never thought was possible and not only do they work but they work really well.

All you need is a printer, s...

Joel Telling on the show tomorrow!!!

Saturday July 18th at noon central USA time Joel will join me On the Hotbed!!!! Join us and let’s have a discussion with the man who basically got everyone hooked on this amazing hobby.

Ideamaker Profiles

I’ve ported the most popular stuff over to Ideamaker and am supporting ABL out the box. If you’re running a stock prusa or UBL I have start gcodes prepared for you that’ll make the transition work for you. Just change what you need for your setup!

Stay tuned for more and more!

Prusa Slicer Profiles

Going forward I’ll be keeping an official Prusa Slicer GitHub going to support profiles. It’s not complete as you can tell but I’m slowly porting over everything to use the new Prusa Slicer filament overrides so you don’t have to keep changing the printer profile.

Stay tuned!!!

First batch of Ideamaker profiles

I’ve spent a lot of time refining these profiles for the SKR bear project. I’m going to make sub folders as I port them to different machines but for now these are for ABL SKR bear printers.

To get them to work on a MK3 you’d just need to edit the start gcode to match prusa better. Same if you wanted them to work for UBL. I’m going to work on the readme so it’ll have the start gcode changes so humans can test them sooner than later.

Next up is testing some regular PETG...

Time to grill Dave from Printed Solid!

Today at 12pm central USA we have the crazy man himself David Randolph from Printed Solid! Come spend an hour with us and don’t forget to bring your questions!

Why do we use thermal paste???

On your traditional hotends with a screw in heatbreak there is a lot of air space between the grooves. This air gap acts as a thermal barrier preventing heat from transferring efficiently from the heatbreak to the heatsink.

Here was a quick... 3 hours of tests... test to show the difference.

No thermal paste- 46C

Slice Boron Nitride Paste - 38C

Traditional silver paste - 40C

In the end always use protection and put paste on your heatbreaks. Also no I...

Let’s chat Zaribo!

We have Wolfgang from Zaribo on stream tomorrow Saturday at 12pm central USA. Come and hangout with us!!!

Ideamaker profiles incoming

After a lot of headache I’ve resorted to switching to Ideamaker to get cleaner parts due to some tool path issues in prusa slicer.

Prusa slicer is still my 💯 go to but for practical parts like these Ideamaker does a way better job. I have a base profile but it’s only for SKR on the GitHub here for anyone to check out. It should work fine on a MK3 just nee...

New SKR firmwares launches!

SKR Bear project has all new refined firmwares with tons of fixes and new ABL (regular 7x7 mesh) firmwares which is now the default option. A total of 22 variants with more coming.

Thanks to beta testers we’ve debugged nearly every main issue and have everything running as smooth as can be. For the most part it’s no different than swapping boards and feeling at home. Now with Printed Solid carrying the LDO extension plugs so you don’t have to cut and crimp all new conn...