{"id":1827,"date":"2014-05-11T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T01:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haveblue.org\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2014-05-11T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T01:07:50","slug":"finally-a-semi-working-fdm-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a semi-working FDM 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tContinuing from the <a href=\"http:\/\/haveblue.org?p=1790\">previous installment<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/culprit-nozzle.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1828\" title=\"culprit nozzle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/culprit-nozzle.jpg?resize=614%2C511\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even after thoroughly cleaning out the problematic support nozzle with appropriately sized tiny drill bits from either end, the nozzle would still clog and jam.\u00a0 I did indeed have a single spare T12 (0.012&#8243; orifice) nozzle, and installing it exorcised the demons that have plagued the machine for the better part of a year.\u00a0 *sigh*\u00a0 It&#8217;s always the last thing you suspect.\u00a0 Frankie notes that when he had nozzle clogs, he used a torch on the nozzles as a &#8216;take no prisoners&#8217; approach to cleaning out foreign matter.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll have to try this method if for no other reason than to exact thermal revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, after verifying that both nozzles were feeding without any jams, I started a test print as a good &#8216;shakeout&#8217; of the system.\u00a0 Printing Duchamp chess sets are all the rage right now (more on that in an upcoming blog post), so I thought it would be a good inaugural print.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2000-first-chess-set-print.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1829\" title=\"2000 first chess set print\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2000-first-chess-set-print.jpg?resize=614%2C507\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I stopped in at the <a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukeemakerspace.org\/\">Makerspace<\/a> the next day, I was relieved to see that the print had completed successfully, and I didn&#8217;t have a chamber full of &#8216;3D printer barf&#8217;.\u00a0 The print quality isn&#8217;t as good as I&#8217;m currently getting with my FDM 1600, but that&#8217;s to be expected since I have to fully calibrate the XYZ location of the support nozzle in relation to the model nozzle.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a fair bit of rippling in the prints that I think may be due to a slightly loose drive cable.\u00a0 Finally, the layer adhesion is quite poor, but this is standard P400 ABS, not the MG94 (P430 ABS+) from <a href=\"http:\/\/coex3d.com\/\">Coex<\/a> that has me absolutely spoiled (yet another upcoming blog post).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing from the previous installment&#8230; Even after thoroughly cleaning out the problematic support nozzle with appropriately sized tiny drill bits from either end, the nozzle would still clog and jam.\u00a0 I did indeed have a single spare T12 (0.012&#8243; orifice) nozzle, and installing it exorcised the demons that have plagued the machine for the better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}