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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Positioning Results After Bed Levelling

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Now the probe is reasonably consistent over 200μm or so, I thought I'd have a stab at the 300μm test image with 15μm spacing. Here's...

Micron Bed Leveling ... With Duct Tape???!

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Got it down to 1 μm in 270μm! As per previous testing the probe wasn't staying at a consistent height, but the change seemed to be line...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Probe One Is In The Box

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Probe One (the acid etched stainless steel one here ) was successfully mounted using the mounting jig and put in a nice, protective box unti...
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Monday, October 13, 2025

Oops. Disassembling Probe Number Five

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Yes, disassemble number five. After smacking it around while investigating the probe height problem in the previous test the tip looks like...
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Testing The Level Of The Bed, Or Not...

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I attempted a resin deposition run, unsuccessfully. This was due to a number of factors, most of which are visible in the following microgra...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Probe Assembly Jig (powercut over)

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While assembling those nice, pointy probe tips a certain amount of ... carnage was involved. I shall write "101 Ways To Trash Your Prob...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Tips On Etching Tips

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I got some  actual  316L stainless steel wire and some Nichrome 80, after the " Art of Bulshito " non-stainless non-steel wire inc...
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The Ancient Eastern Art Of Bulshito - "Stainless Steel Part 2"

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Yep, stung again by an Amazon supplier. Advertised as 0.3mm Stainless Steel Wire. Absolutely not, as you can see. Some plated copper muck:  ...
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Z-Touch Foil Thickness/Deviation Test and Accidental Accuracy Finding

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The objective was to find out how consistent the μRepRap was when using an aluminium foil touchplate. Simultaneously an overall difference i...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Hypodermic Tip As Deposition Probe ... Nah.

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Well I had a hypodermic needle probe in, and there was some resin, so I tried it as a deposition probe. Not very good results, wasn't re...
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Monday, October 06, 2025

FPath: Calibration Interlude

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Every time I see those black and white micro scale images posted by the MEMS crowd I get a bit of calibration envy. The images all seem to h...
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Tried new probe holder - 10μm Pixels!

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I've been building up to a resin print test campaign, starting end of next week. So have been working hard on getting V0.05 into a usabl...
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