Blog for the RepRap project at www.reprap.org - a project to create an open-source self-copying 3D printer. To get all the early posts on this blog with all the images as a single PDF visit this page.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Many useful little things...
In which your narrator continues his relentless campaign to get the steel out of Reprap machines and improve the percentage printed.
Forrest, the multi-stranded picture wire is probably shark line :) Pay a visit to the tackle shop and ask for plastic-coated wire trace. The stuff comes with ridiculous breaking strains.
For tensioning it, follow what the musicians do: use a peg at one end. Or both if you feel inclined :)
I'll probably stay with #8 studding for the near to term. I can get three feet of that for a shade over $1 and applying tension and securing it to end plates is a trivial exercise.
Forrest, the multi-stranded picture wire is probably shark line :) Pay a visit to the tackle shop and ask for plastic-coated wire trace. The stuff comes with ridiculous breaking strains.
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Vik :v)
I'll probably stay with #8 studding for the near to term. I can get three feet of that for a shade over $1 and applying tension and securing it to end plates is a trivial exercise.
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