Rolls-Royce Trent XWB exhibition
grant gibson
All,
As some of you may have seen the Silk Mill was on the BBC local news yesterday promoting the forthcoming XWB exhibition. I was asked to demo the additive layer manufacturing funky foam jet engine activity and supposedly since people saw the piece the Silk Mill has been inundated with questions from members of the public. I am on my way to Swansea at the moment and so cannot attend tonight and therefore I'm wondering if someone / multiple people could do me / the Silk Mill a favour.
I have sent Andrea the gcode file for the engine that should mean it will print in about 1 hour. Firstly could someone load the file on to the SD card and check it prints ok. If it doesn't can you let me know ASAP.
Secondly since returning from Ultimaker the prints are sticking extremely well to the print bed. I have tried completely turning off the heat bed and the prints are still sticking like nobody's business. I have read on the Ultimaker forum that the only thing you can do is completely clean any glue off the buildplate and then try printing without any heat Or glue. Could someone try this please? I was getting rather frustrated the other day when the prints are sticking so well because there is just no way to get them off without ruining them.
Long winded email I know so sorry about that... I wouldn't have said anything if I hadn't been told how popular the item has been.
Regards
Grant
David Evans
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> I have sent Andrea the gcode file for the engine that should mean it will print in about 1 hour. Firstly could someone load the file on to the SD card and check it prints ok. If it doesn't can you let me know ASAP.
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> Secondly since returning from Ultimaker the prints are sticking extremely well to the print bed. I have tried completely turning off the heat bed and the prints are still sticking like nobody's business. I have read on the Ultimaker forum that the only thing you can do is completely clean any glue off the buildplate and then try printing without any heat Or glue. Could someone try this please? I was getting rather frustrated the other day when the prints are sticking so well because there is just no way to get them off without ruining them.
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grant gibson
Thanks I'll try and slice it again I don't know why it's leaving gaps in the print the only thing I can think is it needs slowing down?
Any ideas? I'm slicing in the latest cura so can't understand why it doesn't print properly it used to print fine.
Regards
Grant
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David Evans
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> Thanks I'll try and slice it again I don't know why it's leaving gaps in the print the only thing I can think is it needs slowing down?
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> Any ideas? I'm slicing in the latest cura so can't understand why it doesn't print properly it used to print fine.
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grant gibson
Right so it might print if there is a bit of glue on..... Alternatively we could try blue decorators tape. Hopefully if it sticks it should print ok. Thanks for trying anyway.
Grant
David Evans
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> Right so it might print if there is a bit of glue on..... Alternatively we could try blue decorators tape. Hopefully if it sticks it should print ok. Thanks for trying anyway.
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Your latest file is on the SD card,b called “trent-engine”, so it’s ripe for faffing.
Stuart Weaver
On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 8:39:24 PM UTC, grant gibson wrote:
Right so it might print if there is a bit of glue on..... Alternatively we could try blue decorators tape. Hopefully if it sticks it should print ok. Thanks for trying anyway.
Grant
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:34 David Evans <dfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 Feb 2015, at 20:31, grant gibson <grantg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks I'll try and slice it again I don't know why it's leaving gaps in the print the only thing I can think is it needs slowing down?
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I didn’t mess around with it at all; at the prime experimentation time I got dong other things.
> Any ideas? I'm slicing in the latest cura so can't understand why it doesn't print properly it used to print fine.
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The bed wasn’t heating at all and I scraped off all the glue, so this is the other extreme!
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grant gibson
Right that is annoying I think I might increase the temperature of the filament then to 250C and probably reduce the fan speed hopefully that will allow it to stick better
Thanks for letting me know
Regards
Grant
