Printing in 3D - Articles of failure

Aftershock of the fix

Was not a long term fix

A week. After a short week the new hotend broke. Literally.

2015. 10. 01

The first time we had to fix our newer printer

It had been working without problem for ten months

We had been using our new printer for ten months when the filament stuck in it.

2015. 09. 27

Failures to print linklings

We knew it's hard to print, but we didn't expect we would fail

We found the design of a Linkling on Thingiverse and decided to print some for our liking.

2015. 03. 15

We are trying to fix our printer

We are suffering from the longest unsuccessful printing period of our almost two years of history

It has been almost two months since we had a successful print. We have been suffering from different problems since then.

2014. 09. 20

We fixed the printer - before the replacement arrived

It might be a temporary solution, but at least we can print

Although the replacement hotend did not arrive yet we found a solution for our problem.

2014. 05. 06

We cannot print - again

This time the hotend's power resistor died

We didn't have any problem with the printer recently - now we have.

2014. 04. 29

We are still trying to figure out the secrets of the ABS printing

We didn't find the key so far

We continued learning the ABS printing this week.

2014. 02. 16

First printings from ABS

Fine tuning of the ABS printing

We spent the whole weekend trying to set up our printer for ABS printing.

2014. 02. 09

Things happened recently

It's good news - bad news time

We started printing with SD support, tried the ABS printing and broke glass on the printer. All in less then a week!

2014. 01. 20

Problems again

Serious issues again

A not so short story where we started with a small problem which quickly turned into a big issue.

2013. 12. 24

The first prints on heated bed

It seems we have to learn 3D printing again

Now we have the first few prints on heated bed and of course the first few mistakes, too. We expected a few hiccups on the first few try, but we didn't expect to learn printing again.

2013. 12. 10

The main board stopped working

After we finally fixed the problem with the always sticking filament something else has broken

Unfortunately after a few days of trying to figure out how can we print with the white filament, the central electronic has stopped working suddenly.

2013. 08. 04

Yet another maintenance - with a twist

Cleaning the hobbed bar and replacing the pusher motor

After some debate we decided there could be only two reasons of the regular stuck of the filament: the hobbed bar and the weak pusher motor. It turned out we were wrong...

2013. 07. 30