Halfling13 Hobbies

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Category: Crafting

  • Fan success

    The replacement fan arrived on time, was a simple install, and quite happily appears to have solved my latest issues.  Heat creep no longer appears to be a problem – the extruder motor is comfortably cool, and after a quick re-leveling of the bed, the printer is functional again.  I am re-running a larger print…

  • A dead fan

    My earlier post regarding the all-metal hotend was a bit premature.  In truth, the metal hotend and parts are working great.  In some ways, perhaps a bit too great.  As a result, I have been getting what I have concluded to be a lot of heat-creep into the extruder motor itself.  I have tried a…

  • All Metal Hotend

    Received and managed to install the new Micro Swiss All-Metal Hotend for my 3d printer, an effort which was relatively simple.  Most of the challenge was really just managing the tiny screws that hold the printer together, and rewiring everything back in the correct place.  The included URL from the vendor provided up to date…

  • Coffee Table

    Spent the weekend working on a project for the living room, crafting a coffee table and crafting workstation for the wife.  Definitely not heirloom quality furniture, but functional and very sturdy.  It still needs a bit more work – the top needs to be sanded, painted and actually attached, but it is otherwise complete. Total…

  • Filament Choices

    As I have been getting further and further into 3d printing, I have been experimenting with a number of different colors and brands of filament.  In general, I have not found much significant different in quality for PLA between options, but for consistency, I have been tending towards the same ones each time.  If curious,…

  • A return to woodworking

    I have been tasked by the wife to build a coffee table/work station for the living room, to accommodate her various crafting efforts.  Now that we no longer have a large Labrador, we have the space (and less loose hair), and she is ready to have a larger surface to work on projects.  As a…

  • Printer repairs

    Ran into another problem with the printer over the weekend, when it started having challenges printing reliably.  In each case, it would run for 15-30 minutes, and then jam, and stop extruding.  After cancelling, I could clear the jam and get the extruder going again, but with the next attempt, the same would happen.

  • Printing variety

    Had a number of recent projects this week that have been working the printer quite a bit.  Not only am I working on my first printing and painting video, but I have been collecting a number of time lapse videos for other projects.  The wife also tasked me with me with making a Boy Scout…