Hairspray is so effective at sticking items to the printbed that sometimes it gets very difficult to pull them off once the print is done. If the shape is tall and gives you a bit of leverage then it’s usually easy enough to snap off, but if it is quite short and has a lot of surface contacting the bed it can be close to impossible. I’ve heard of people ripping parts of their print bed off while trying to remove prints!
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In this post I’ll describe how to make a handy multi purpose printing accessory with some cheap Ikea furniture and a large wooden spoon.
I really like the gear designs designed by Emmett on Thingiverse. When printing the amazing Gear Bearing I had to adjust the tolerances and so got some idea of how OpenSCAD works.
Every beloved gadget must have a name. I’ve experimented with a few different alternatives but the one that has stuck was suggested by a friend. He had recently attended a conference where an eminent professor had described 3D printers as “glorified icing bags” and therefore though Squirty would be an apt moniker. I think it is both endearing and accurate, so Squirty it is.
The same friend also caught the 3D printing bug and decided to order his own Huxley. This event gave me the perfect opportunity to see if Squirty could move to its next life stage and spawn a set of new plastic parts to be used in the construction of another Huxley. Continue reading
I received my Reprap Huxley kit in December last year. After many weekends of construction, tinkering and blank eyed despair it is finally in a state that could be described as “working order”. This blog will occasionally document my projects with the Reprap and try to explain some of the many things that go wrong with my printing experiences.
