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From: Steve <s...@daisydogger.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:08:32 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 16 2012 10:08 pm
Subject: Re: [MakerBot] Re: Got my MakerBot Replicator 2 and it's not working right
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dnewman

Thanks again for sharing your insights, they are very helpful.

Did you learn all this through the school of hard knocks, or are there
places with things I should be reading
about 3D printing and Makerbots other than the MakerBot web site/Wiki, this
group, the Skeinforge and ReplicatorG
web pages?

 .

On Friday, November 16, 2012 2:15:52 PM UTC-8, dnewman wrote:

> Steve wrote:

> > Ian Lougheed

> > How do we determine the correct tightness of the belts?
> You can compare the X and Y axis belts and see if they feel to be about
> the same: they should be.
> Beyond that, the best way to tell is to make a stubby cylinder and print
> it and see if it is circular
> or elliptical.  You want it to be circular.  See, for example,

> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12259

> for some objects you could slice and print.

> Dan


 
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