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I finally am getting around to setting up a better process for doing timelapse photography of 3D printing. Not perfect yet but a good first test. This is a small vase printed in amber PLA with 0.1mm layers at 80mm/s on my Reprap MendelMax 3D Printer.

Testing a new geared stepper from 2engineers.com with hybrid metal gears, some problematic brass gears are replaced with steel. This is one of my most extruder-punishing prints, a 4-hour lava texture honu with lots of retraction using cheap craptastic PLA that has very poor extrusion and adhesion properties. I still have a high failure rate getting the first layer to stick, and this is the only PLA so far I’ve had that’s prone to strip on the blddk hobb.

Current Y axis with a prototype micro extruder. The Trinity Y rail upgrade kit instead replacing the 1.5 lasercut wood Y carriage. Still using a 110V 250W AC silicone heater, now directly on the bottom of the borosilicate glass bed. No more milled aluminum table so now have less mass and vibration.