Assembling a Printrbot+ 3D printerthat we bought via their Kickstarter project. After sitting in our living room for months, B and I started working on it the first week I was “unemployed”. But he was really sick so I ended up doing it myself. We ran into some issues with parts not being the same as spec’d. I had some gears that didn’t fit on the motor shafts, and some of the pieces didn’t look like they did in the assembly videos. Also the board had one hole that was smaller than the other three, and I didn’t know what screw to put in there. The video said all the holes should be the same size. I confirmed those were still ok parts to use, and got the correct gear parts shipped out. Brook of Printrbot, or one of his minions took care of that. <p>In the assembly video, they say the board we have in ours is from an old kit, or one purchased “somewhere else”. I don’t know what that’s about since we got it from them and should have been one of the first people to get one. Anyway, it’s about 1/3 done, best guess. We have three colors of filament ready to go. I really want to get started printing. Hopefully we can get it done soon and calibration will be easy.
Printrbot – ongoing
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