Ran out of filament

Yesterday I ran out of filament on the end of a big print. Unfortunately the print wasn't finished yet. Here is the time-lapse video of the print: http://youtu.be/hjPn_ucdcfY

Luckily I can start printing again because today I got my new filament

 

Update

For those who read my blog sorry that it has been a while since my last update.

Since my last update some things have changed, the extruder cooling fan stopped working, I re-calibrated the bed, I've put kapton tape on the bed and I printed a clamp to hold the cables of the x-carriage.

The cable clamp was needed because the cables used to be zip-tied to the cooling fan cable. This made the cable a hinge which would bend every time the x-carriage would move. Eventually the copper inside the cable broke and the fan stopped working. I temporally put the big fan on to replace the small fan untill I've got a new one. 

I'm actually planning on to replace both fans (the on for the extruder and the one for the electronics) because the original ones make to much noise.

After some recent failures I decided to re-calibrate the bed, put kapton tape on it and get rid of the clamps.

One off the problems I had where because of unneeded tension in the printers frame. The tension caused the x-axis smooth rods to bend and cause the extruder to hit the bed on the sides while at the middle it was fine.

I've also started using kapton tape on the bed instead of hairspray. The hairspray looked so dirty but it worked ok. I don't know if the kapton tape will do better than the hairspray but we'll see.

The last thing I changed was getting rid of the clamps that used to hold the glass in place. Every time I printed something big the extruder would bump into one of the clamps and mess things up. That's why I've taped the glass in place with kapton tape now.

Haven't heard from me for a while

Hello readers

I'm still here. I haven't been updating a lot because I couldn't print a lot or work on my printer.
So here is something I have printed.

It has been a while

Haven't been printing a lot smaller since my last post.
Here are some things that I have printed.
First picture is a part of a house. The second picture is a magic wand.

Upgrade #5 vibration

Quick update I put some rubber between the stepper motors and the frame to reduce noise caused by the vibration of the motors.

Upgrade #2 upgraded (again)

Because my previous version of the cooling started to melt away I made a new cooling unit.
This version is more compact and of course doesn't melt.
In the picture you can see two versions the one on the right is final version. The top of the cooling unit is covered with a layer of aluminium foil to reflect heat from the print head. 

Upgrade #4 PLA -> ABS

Because of the high bed temperature the PLA parts of the y-carriage started to melt. This meant that I had to replace the PLA parts.