The Daily Make #21 | 5th April 2024

Fix, burn & print.

The first task of the day involved fixing the Markforged printer. The printer indicated it was underfeeding, but it was likely that the carbon filament head was jammed as this is where the last 3 prints went wrong - switching over from PLA to cabon. To confirm this, a test print was conducted with PLA, which was successful, suggesting that the issue was indeed with the carbon printing.

Stop.

Remove all the carbon from the bottom tube and then unscrew the carbon printed.

Yeah definitely a blocked printhead.

Change the head after digging around for the right tool - avoid burning my finger on the damaged very hot filament head.

And screw in the new one and NOT avoid burning myself!

Feeding the carbon back in (bit tricky)

Put on the test print that has a mixture of both carbon and PLA - which would be the first member who had an issue that has hopefully just been fixed.

Its working, we are on layer 63 of 67, its working….

Of course, during this time, the maintenance team came round to work on the lighting, which has been delated for months and do this, requires turning of the lights are the fuse board…of which there are four, some with 50 fuses and only 10 labelled. You can tell where this is going.

Of course one of the fuses incorrectly switched off was the printer!

Sigh..its Friday.

Restarted the print - its all good.

Aside from this, Ordered what was needed to fix the Vinyl Cutter, replacement bags for the Festool Extraction system that looks suspiciously like a vacuum cleaner and the a great part of the day - Sell the first print map. Success.

The Daily Make #21

Jonathan Woolf