Category: 3D printing
Yutong Bus Ventilation repairs
My 3D printing adventures has found myself working on a varied projects but this one has been the most fun yet. A good friend of mine runs a fleet of busses and coaches, and as part of the responsibilities is to ensure they have a source of parts that are regularly broken and need replacing.…
Custom stepper towers for Mercury one.1
I have had to make a variation of the stepper motor towers for the mercury “one.1” 3D printer. Its an awesome design, and iI have found it to be a brilliant 3D printer. However when I turn up the speed, I found the belts have on occasion rode up the idlers on the metal dowel…
PEY print surface tests
I’ve seen a few posts about using the new micro textured print surfaces that give coloured reflections on the surface of the print. Given the efforts converting the Ender 5 into a ZeroG, it felt it would be worth the investment. As you can tell by the results, it’s rather impressive! The only downside is…
DIY filament runout sensor
I wanted to get a filament runout sensor for my Mercury ZeroG, but didn’t want to buy a cheap of the shelf one that would ultimately fail. So made one using a Creality end stop switch. I liked the concepts of the ones online, however I wanted to use a Y-adaptor so I can have…
Simplyprint.io
Giving this web application a try, keeping a remote eye on both my printers while I’m out and prints in progress is handy. I have to say, this is impressive, I’d imagine extremely handy for those running a print farm. Even the mobile app is pretty good, providing a summary at one glance. Initial setup…