http://blog.makerbot.com/2009/11/29/nate-trues-extruder-hacks/ Robots That Make Things Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:20:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.makerbot.com/2009/11/29/nate-trues-extruder-hacks/comment-page-1/#comment-3407 Insulator Retainer Breakage « Makerbot #448 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:23:47 +0000 http://blog.makerbot.com/?p=793#comment-3407 [...] Insulator Retainer Breakage 16 03 2010 For those of you who have a broken insulator retainer, superglue seems to work well to fix it temporarily (or forever). Some sanding might be necessary to make stuff fit in holes. Then to make sure it doesn’t break again, put the screws holding the extruder upside down and screw those long screws into the extruder body directly. Much stronger and robust. See here for more details on this configuration: http://blog.makerbot.com/2009/11/29/nate-trues-extruder-hacks/ [...] [...] Insulator Retainer Breakage 16 03 2010 For those of you who have a broken insulator retainer, superglue seems to work well to fix it temporarily (or forever). Some sanding might be necessary to make stuff fit in holes. Then to make sure it doesn’t break again, put the screws holding the extruder upside down and screw those long screws into the extruder body directly. Much stronger and robust. See here for more details on this configuration: http://blog.makerbot.com/2009/11/29/nate-trues-extruder-hacks/ [...]

]]> http://blog.makerbot.com/2009/11/29/nate-trues-extruder-hacks/comment-page-1/#comment-2353 MakerBot Update – Extruder Postmortem « Built to Spec Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:23:41 +0000 http://blog.makerbot.com/?p=793#comment-2353 [...] out this entry on the MakerBot Blog for some additional info and some more awesome mods to the basic plastruder [...] [...] out this entry on the MakerBot Blog for some additional info and some more awesome mods to the basic plastruder [...]

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