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it begins again...
Tonight I changed the oil and started in on replacing the seat bushing. looks pretty odd without a tank.
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Makerbot madness
I finally took some time to poke at my makerbot again. gordonmessmer and I tried to get it working again in a fairly standard config only to be reminded of how much the mk4 extruder sucks. Many moons ago when I was spending more time with this machine I had printed and intended to make a Wade's Extruder work on my makerbot but ran into some unspecified issue ( Read more... ) -
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Just before we bought the house I'd noticed that the Rockster was making a lot more noise on the right side than it should. gordonmessmer and I popped the right valve cover to do a quick adjustment and found that the right intake valve was out of spec. Way out of spec. In the 2000 miles since the last service the valve gap had widened by something like 0.5mm ( Read more... ) -
Weekend report
Still unpacking and setting up the new house. The dining room table showed up on Thursday but there was a complete comedy of errors including the taller legs not fitting, a leaf getting dropped and splitting and one of the accessories being wrong. It's all getting sorted out, but for the moment we only kind of have a table ( Read more... ) -
Moved
We moved. I'm dead tired. I'm reclining on the awesome couch drinking fortified cider. I will sleep soon and I get to do more tomorrow.
Thanks to all the wonderful people who came out to help. Gordon, Ian, Brandon, Matt, Kent, Pat, Andrew, Erin (Jack Henry helped too!) and my mom and dad. We could not have done it without you. -
All mine
The Rockster is officially mine now. This is the first large (i.e. titled, licensed) piece of real property that I think I've ever fully owned. Does this make me a grown up now? -
I made a Thing
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2040
Time from perceived need to assembled object: less than 24 hours. -
Tools
For a while now I've been wanting a small metal-working lathe for doing some work associated with the MakerBot and RepRap. There are a few parts on those machines that you need a lathe to make. A new-found friend I met through a few connections has a really nice old lathe and was generous enough to turn the parts we needed so I'm no longer in ( Read more... )
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