Veruca Gloop

[Equipment|Back to list of Equipment]]

General

Owner/Loaner: LVL1 owned Serial Number: 2230 Make/Model: Makerbot Cupcake CNC Arrival Date: Raised from the boxes and to life October 16, 2010 Usability: Working Contact: Tim M. Where: along east wall next to white cabinet

Specifications

• Audrey 2 Mark 5 Extruder head
• Usable Build Area: 100mm Width x 100mm Depth x 130mm Height
• X/Y Positioning Resolution: 0.085mm
• Z Positioning Resolution: 3.125 microns
• Maximum X/Y Feed rate: 5000mm/minute
• Maximum Z Feed rate: 200mm/minute
• Typical Z-layer height: 0.3725mm
• Outside measurements: 350mm x 240mm x 450mm

Printer settings

Unzip these settings and put them into here:

• on mac put them here : /Applications/replicatorg-0021-mac/skein_engines/skeinforge-31/skeinforge_application/prefs
• on Winders :
• on linux :

From Tim

• Layer height .32 width/thicknes ratio 1.6 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/253442/L32WT16.zip

Modifications

• Z axis crank http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:975
• Y axis belt tensioner http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1618
• Z axis wobble arrester http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3057

Working on it

• Z axis wobble
  • http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2151
  • everything is printed and shafts are in
  • parts are installed needs to be tweaked
• Automated Build platform belt wobbles
  • I have no idea maybe a new belt made of thick kapton tape built to a tighter tolerance. covering it with pieces of narrow kapton seems to work for now.

Known Problems

• extruder motor seized Fixed with http://wiki.makerbot.com/the-great-motor-mystery
• Power supply died replaced with RMA
• Z axis wobble It will die
• Automated Build platform belt wobbles allowing print to move -- this part has been removed until a suitable solution can be devised

Future Ideas

• Print wireless using bluetooth http://wiki.makerbot.com/bluetooth-communication
• Making our own filament http://hackaday.com/2010/08/05/recyclebot-digests-milk-jugs-to-feed-makerbot/