GMU:3DIY/Printer queue

the printer has found it's new home and is sort of available. the room can for the moment be booked via me.

so, the next step will be the one you are all craving for: printing! fair enough and you shall do so, but as none of us has much experience it would be nice if you would document your printing and the tricks and tweak you find out. here is the perfect place for this.

please document your printer usage and your experiences. the printer queue is a schedule, where you can sign in for printing. with your name, the name and a picture of the thing you are going to print, the estimated print time. And when you are done a print report: featuring the settings you used, the time and amout of material it took, what issues you came across, how you fixed it ... the amount of material you used...

remember to always obey the two rules: 
do not break anything! 
do not hurt yourself!

The printer queue

Image of file	File Name	Print date	and time	Name	Print report (Material, temperature, time, feed rate, etc.)	Amount of time needed	Amount of material used	Issues	Fixes	Image of printed object
.jpg des File	Datei Name	Druck Datum	und Uhrzeit	Name	Druckbericht (Material, Temperatur, Zeit, Vorschub, etc.)	Gebrauchte Zeit	Verbrauchte Menge an Material	Probleme	Und wie sie gelöst wurden	.jpg des gedruckten Objekts
	test.bfb	25.8.		Robert S. und Florian M.				extreme warping on the spire	higher print resolution, cooldown by fan in the critical phase, rasp and sand paper
	test2.bfb	26.8.		Robert S. und Florian M.					improved testprint, based on this, we startet printing the complete animation cycle of 16 frames
	animationcycle01.bfb (Frame 1-4)	26.8.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx 140 minutes
	animationcycle02.bfb (Frame 5-7 +12)	30.8.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx 140 minutes
	animationcycle03.bfb (Frame 8-11)	31.8.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx 140 minutes
	animationcycle04.bfb (Frame 13-14)	1.9.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx. 60 minutes
	animationcycle05.bfb (Frame 15-16)	2.9.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx. 60 minutes
	zoetrope_cap.bfb (cap of the zoetrope)	15.9.-16.9.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx. 10 hours till abortion		imprecise printbed complicates printing of large objects (20x20x1cm), ABS warps too much (high temperature?)	optimizing the .stl file, trying the same with PLA
	zoetrope_cap.bfb (cap of the zoetrope)	21.9.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx. 20 minutes		problems with the .stl file and imprecise printbed obviate the 2nd try while printing the raft and lead to an early stop		no existing image of this try
	Eindrucken Variante 2	29.09.2010		Katharina E.				Due to the extensive work needed preparing the LEDs the test print will be the final print.		|-
	zoetrope_cap_pla.bfb (cap of the zoetrope with pla settings)	28.9.-29.9.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx. 8hours		structure was a bit week and the material feed was blocked due to mechanical problems with the PLA material roll (approx 30minutes of printing without material(!), cause the extrusion was kind of blocked)	slightly higher printing temperature might help, fixing the problems with the material roll will be necessary.	#
	zoetrope_lamp.bfb (construction for the led lamp)	29.9.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx. 2hours		everything went perfectly fine
	crankhandle_p1.bfb (part of the gear)	13.10.		Robert S. und Florian M.		approx. 20 minutes		everything went perfectly fine
	gearshell.bfb (part of the gear)	26.10.		Robert S. und Florian M.		several hours (only troubleshooting		problems with the printbed level (was too close to extruder), flakes of PLA were sometimes extruded together with the ABS	leveling the bed, cleaning the extruder	no acceptable result, therefore nothing to photograph