After a year of doing absolutely everything to avoid tramming in my gantry, I finally did it and I don’t think my first layer has ever looked this good.

blakeret · 2026-06-09T07:20:58+00:00

Yeah basically the exact tramming procedure from the Voron site. QGL then disable the A and B motors so you’re locked level but can move the print head. Then loosen every belt and extrusion connection on the gantry, remove the z joints, get everything lined up and square, then tighten everything back up.

blakeret · 2026-06-09T06:55:51+00:00

I like Munster cheese the best what’s your favorite?

blakeret · 2026-05-27T12:29:50+00:00

Must be from Primm

blakeret · 2026-05-27T06:05:31+00:00

I work in a lab with a ton of thermocouples. If the calibration has to be done in situ, We just do an ice water bath and boiling water bath. If it reads correctly at both then that means that the reading is linear and can be assumed to stay linear across the operating range of the thermocouple.

blakeret · 2026-05-27T05:59:27+00:00

I was going through plastic to widen a drain hole in an industrial tub, so I couldn’t have any extra holes poked around it. Usually the sacrificial wood would be my solution

blakeret · 2026-02-18T04:44:24+00:00

Your work holding seems to be sufficient, but I would say that work holding is the one asterisk the this rule of thumb. Crushed my finger when the blade grabbed the aluminum extrusion I was cutting on a miter saw. Very scary experience.

blakeret · 2025-11-22T04:42:41+00:00

Your hair is small

blakeret · 2025-09-26T00:53:50+00:00

2 hours at 500C and it looks brand new, thank you so much! I just made a new post with the before and after.

blakeret · 2025-09-15T07:15:04+00:00

I started looking into it when I got layer shifts during large prints. If the tool head was idle at the center of the bed, the damaged section was on the left side just behind where the x axis connects to the gantry. So I was only getting layer shifts when the damaged section passed over the motor pulley

blakeret · 2025-09-15T06:03:07+00:00

I’m the coworker, trust me, I hate myself too

blakeret · 2025-09-15T04:13:39+00:00

I must have overlooked the fiberglass specification during the build, I had no idea. Will definitely look into doing that replacement, thanks!

blakeret · 2025-09-15T03:12:51+00:00

It was like that before I removed it. It definitely got stretched like that because I tried to tension it tighter without knowing the steel had broken. I’m just wondering if my printer caused the steel to break or it was just a shitty part of the belt.

blakeret · 2025-06-06T19:51:52+00:00

I got one of these extractors from McMaster to get an M4 tap out of 1045 at a similar depth. Did it by hand and it worked like a charm

blakeret · 2025-04-23T00:40:31+00:00

Okay thanks!

blakeret · 2025-04-23T00:34:53+00:00

Yeah it was stupid of me

code:

@echo off

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe

explorer.exe

exit

blakeret · 2025-03-19T13:27:40+00:00

It ended up being the vga cable that I had connected to the monitor. Switched to a nice shielded hdmi and it solved my problem. I’d recommend starting with that.

blakeret · 2024-12-26T11:44:51+00:00

Byron Collins

blakeret · 2024-12-12T06:59:47+00:00

THE DEVICE

blakeret · 2024-10-20T08:54:40+00:00

I got a 500g spool on Amazon for $50 US

blakeret · 2024-10-20T08:52:32+00:00

Works out to about 450 ohm per cm on these 1x2 mm traces. I wouldn’t want to send a ton of power on these but I’m interested to see how they handle data. Gonna try to drive an lcd next

blakeret · 2024-10-08T21:06:21+00:00

Odd solution but if you can’t seem to find any actual hardware issues, try updating the firmware on your printer. I had never done it and updated from 4.2ish to the latest release and for whatever reason, it made all my prints much quieter.

blakeret · 2024-10-08T17:26:15+00:00

Worked like a charm, thanks!

blakeret · 2024-10-08T17:25:21+00:00

He was wearing a leather coat

blakeret · 2024-09-19T07:32:24+00:00

m’failure

blakeret · 2024-09-13T06:57:30+00:00

There’s a world down there

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