<div dir="ltr">Excellent idea. If anyone has a notebook to label and leave next to the printer, I say go for it. We can tell new people about the log as they are trained to use the printer.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Darrell Perko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dperko@efn.org" target="_blank">dperko@efn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Perhaps we should start a printer log. Enough people use the printer now<br>
that something new seems to pop up regularly. It would be nice to know<br>
what changed between sessions so that we might be able to predict and<br>
prevent future problems.<br>
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On 1/24/2013 11:09 AM, Kassandra Kaplan wrote:<br>
> It breaks or the filament has too much friction to feed.<br>
><br>
> $B$I$&$>$*$2$s$-$G(B<br>
> Kassie<br>
><br>
> On Jan 21, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Bob Miller <<a href="mailto:kbob@jogger-egg.com">kbob@jogger-egg.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Today I came in to use Rick's printer. When I tried to print, it<br>
>> printed a few inches of the first layer, then did not extrude any more<br>
>> plastic. After a little investigation, I figured out that the motor<br>
>> was not pushing plastic into the hot end.<br>
>><br>
>> I disassembled the "cold end" (the part where the toothed gear pushes<br>
>> the filament through) to clean it out. There wasn't much to clean,<br>
>> just a little plastic fluff. But the gear had worn a divot in the<br>
>> filament. (See photo.)<br>
>><br>
>> I assume this is because the tensioner bolt was not tight enough. So<br>
>> I snipped off the end of the filament, heated up the hot end, and<br>
>> reinserted the filament. I tightened the tensioner to the setting,<br>
>> "really cranked down hard". (-:<br>
>><br>
>> It is printing now and seems to be working. How would I know if I had<br>
>> overtightened the tensioner?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Bob Miller K<bob><br>
>> <a href="mailto:kbob@jogger-egg.com">kbob@jogger-egg.com</a><br>
><br>
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