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by Anders Olsson
March 4th, 2017, 9:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day
Replies: 1527
Views: 2126868

Re: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day

Regarding the patent discussion, it is an interesting one. I would say filing for a patent for the autoleveling is a natural step for Ultimaker. It is a rather clever solution which uses novel technology and certainly is of value (if they make it a bit more reliable). I think the reasons why Ultimak...
by Anders Olsson
February 24th, 2017, 5:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day
Replies: 1527
Views: 2126868

Re: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day

I heard a strange noise coming from the printer :-o Not the feeder but didn't sound good :cry: it was the 'y' axis motor that was beginning to seize :-x and was a bit hot. Interesting, I never heard of the x-y-axis motor failing before but I noticed a strange noise from one of the axis on my UM2 la...
by Anders Olsson
February 22nd, 2017, 4:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day
Replies: 1527
Views: 2126868

Re: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day

Anders: I hope that after (or during) your metal printer training, you get to share some videos/pictures... So curious about those things! :) We did the first test print on the training today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxUeobIwQI :-) I am extremely busy right now, so I don't have much time d...
by Anders Olsson
February 15th, 2017, 4:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day
Replies: 1527
Views: 2126868

Re: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day

I am simply way too busy right now do write any extensive forum post. Things should be a bit less busy in a few weeks though. Today, I have among other things been testing the repeatability of the Z-positioning on the Delta Tower: 2017-02-15-0658.jpg And been extruding some boron carbide plastic wit...
by Anders Olsson
February 10th, 2017, 6:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day
Replies: 1527
Views: 2126868

Re: A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day

In case you are wondering why I am disappearing from the forum from time to time, it is simply because I am very busy. We got a few new toys at work lately which requires attention, among other things. First a new extruder, that I have been stress-testing with boron carbide lately :-) 2017-02-04-057...
by Anders Olsson
February 4th, 2017, 1:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Coffee chat (since the other thread is huge!)
Replies: 8
Views: 12938

Re: Coffee chat (since the other thread is huge!)

Pictures or it didn't happen! :-D No photos of that incident, unfortunately. Unplugging the power cord and the battery ASAP was the only thing in my mind as the keyboard was instantly filled with coffee and the excess was pouring onto the desk and further down on the floor. :shock: And I don't thin...
by Anders Olsson
February 3rd, 2017, 10:59 am
Forum: General / RepRap Printers
Topic: Delta Tower heated bed upgrade
Replies: 3
Views: 8314

Re: Delta Tower heated bed upgrade

I think this one was much less expensive than the current models, I remember seeing something like 5kEuro for a kit (?), which is still quite a lot though. They don't offer these "small" models anymore though as far as I can see. I did try to cut holes in the bubbles with a razor blade, bu...
by Anders Olsson
February 3rd, 2017, 10:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Coffee chat (since the other thread is huge!)
Replies: 8
Views: 12938

Re: Coffee chat (since the other thread is huge!)

Talking about coffee, I just had to order a new laptop for work, since I managed to fill my old laptop with coffee, which it did not like.. :roll:
by Anders Olsson
January 28th, 2017, 11:44 am
Forum: Ultimaker 2 / Ultimaker 2+ / Extended & Go
Topic: Block v3 or Olsson Block
Replies: 18
Views: 27592

Re: Block v3 or Olsson Block

I've used both the "Olsson" block from 3dsolex and the V3 block from 3dsolex and I find the Olsson block to be a huge improvement from not having it at all but the block V3 is only a minor improvement. Funny that you wrote that because that is precisely why I did not make any upgraded ver...
by Anders Olsson
January 28th, 2017, 8:35 am
Forum: Ultimaker 3 / Ultimaker 3 Extended
Topic: New heater block to fit standard nozzles on Ultimaker 3
Replies: 58
Views: 78773

Re: New heater block to fit standard nozzles on Ultimaker 3

Please don't! Your insight and opinions are very valuable! Ultiarjan posted a first basic print test. Basically it doesn't seem to be more than a easy mod. Anyhow shiny and red for looks. Well, I basically share your opinion. It was a very good review by UltiArjan by the way, anyone who likes to re...
by Anders Olsson
January 27th, 2017, 11:27 am
Forum: Ultimaker 3 / Ultimaker 3 Extended
Topic: New heater block to fit standard nozzles on Ultimaker 3
Replies: 58
Views: 78773

Re: New heater block to fit standard nozzles on Ultimaker 3

So here is apparently what Carl / 3DSolex has done in the meantime:
http://3dsolex.com/product/um3-hardcore-six/
I will spare you from my comments this time :-)
by Anders Olsson
January 27th, 2017, 11:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Z-axix linear bearings
Replies: 90
Views: 121367

Re: Z-axix linear bearings

I found it difficult to diagnose the bearings by printing on this machine, surprisingly.
Somehow it appears that all the shaking when printing makes the bearings less likely to stick, I think that 90% of the prints still came out fine with those bearings in the video (!).
by Anders Olsson
January 27th, 2017, 11:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Z-axix linear bearings
Replies: 90
Views: 121367

Re: Z-axix linear bearings

I could not get the z-shafts out on my machine and then it is quite a lot of work, nothing I would do for fun at least. Unfortunately I think I replaced my bearings with non-Misumi ones, at least they did not come in such nice boxes and the new ones also appeared to have slight sticking issues. I ju...
by Anders Olsson
January 24th, 2017, 10:45 am
Forum: Cura
Topic: Cura Feature request: Infill Height
Replies: 25
Views: 28046

Re: Cura Feature request: Infill Height

It works really well with 40% infill though, at least with 1.75 mm filament and direct drive :-) Instantly switching from 30 mm/s at 0.1 mm layer hight (outer wall) to 60 mm/s at 0.3 mm layer height (infill) is no match for the direct drive, it only underextrudes the first few millimeters: 2017-01-2...
by Anders Olsson
January 24th, 2017, 7:27 am
Forum: Cura
Topic: Cura Feature request: Infill Height
Replies: 25
Views: 28046

Re: Cura Feature request: Infill Height

johan wrote:I think 100% infill is still a frontend hack where it changes top or bottom layers to 9999 and skips normal infill.
Ohh, so that is why Cura 2.4 sometimes insists to print the infill at 30mm/s even thought it is set to 60mm/s.
Thanks a lot, I did not connect that bug to the 100% infill setting.

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