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[pelgrimParticipant]

I would really want to see video of a robox doing those flowers

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The kids and I completed this project for valentine’s day and my wife’s birthday.

It took awhile to get the material settings just right using an unusual feed rate multiplier of 4.00 to get the filament to droop with heavier loop instead of getting dragged by the nozzle and blown by the fan. The good news is no need to edit and turn off fan on gcode file (I was not able to override the fan head to off anyway). Printed without edits on gcode and can be printed with 1.5x speed (1.5x is too fast for petals so do following: keep speed 1.5x until layers where petals are printed , then when it start printing petal loops briefly move to any slower speed, then move back to 1.5x…this slows down the 1.5x to around 75% of the original 1.5x speed…probably a bug but took advantage of it).

 

Models:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:240158

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:28123

Note: For flowers I used MeshMixer to hollow out the big round with 0.5mm thickness to get it more translucent.

 

Materials:

Taulman PCTPE for flowers

Taulman T-Glase for vase

 

PCTPE filament tinting:

Rit Dye Powder (Golden Yellow, Sunshine Orange, Purple, Fushia)

See: http://richrap.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/3d-printing-with-nylon-618-filament-in.html

 

Stems:

Pipe cleaners

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[Steve NParticipant]

have you got a different PLA reel?
I’ve found that CEL Cornflower Blue gives the extruder trouble with the creaking noise and the odd filament slip error but CEL Mellow Yeloow is rock solid with no noises or issues

Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical

[Steve NParticipant]

Just a quick update on this one - it would appear that my creaking was entirely a feature of the CEL Cornflower Blue PLA - since I swapped to Mellow Yellow the symptoms have completely disappeared!

Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical

[Steve NParticipant]

yellow pla prints great for me - as does cornflower blue

Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical

[Steve NParticipant]

So this is CEL Cornflower Blue PLA with out of the box settings (filament/temp etc) as provided by AM1.01

Its a draft mode print with every last drop came out of the 0.8mm nozzle (I can’t believe how good it is)

No auto supports, no brim and I used a VERY low fill of about 10%

The only time I saw it struggling was the back section of the 3 In-Ib imprint logo - its a bit dangly under there but who can see?

AM1.01 seems to have transformed my printer - though it also may have something to do with the fact I was faced with the Calibration Screen on first AM1.01 start and decided to walk right through the three Calibration steps in their entirety (for the first time)

I’m going to try the toffee hammer approach on the back of the disc (opposite site to the socket block) to see if that snap apart the adhesion which I think is there

Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical

First functional thing of any size I’ve managed to produce - Raspberry Pi Case

Thingiverse Link

Cornflower Blue PLA has saved the day for my Robox and is printing beautifully

This is printed in Draft mode with the exterior faces laid against the bed to get them smooth

Haven’t bothered with the top or bottom (as yet)

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Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical

I’m having much better results using Robox PLA (cornflower blue) than either of my two ABS reels (green / grey) but I’ve noticed that the Robox is creaking a lot - the creaking noise sounds like what you’d hear on an old ship with wooden planks rubbing against each . After a good draft print yesterday (1 inch by 4 inch panel) I noticed that subsequent draft prints seemed starved of filament out of the 0.8mm nozzle - I’m wondering if the PLA filament is slipping in the extruder - if I help the extruder and ‘push’ the filament between my finger and thumb between where it comes off the reel and goes in the slot into the machine, the creaking stops

I’m worried that the the slipping causes a) filament starvation on draft and b) will be wearing out the extruder cog

Any thoughts? I do have a black PLA reel to try next to see if it exhibits the same noisiness

Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical