Author: Daz

My full time job’s financial year is April to April and so the last month or so has been fairly manic. Work wise (plus my little baby) I’ve spent a lot of time away from printing, just prioritisation really. I also started facing a few printer related issues. My support / camera PC attached to my printer was no longer performing at an acceptable level, video quality was poor and choppy – also the way in which I was capturing the images and the mounts I was using were not really up to scratch. Some design and modification was...

  3DGBIRE accidentally announced the two new printers from Raise3D just a little early. I’ve known that Raise3D were coming out with info on something new in the next few weeks however I had no idea what I was. I was fearing it would be an entirely new redesign, as that would then obviously devalue my N2 however 3DGBIRE  accidentally released a mailshot at 4 AM this morning that uncovers the two new printers the Pro 2 and the Pro 2+. The photos don’t give a huge amount away however there’s lots of detail of what hasn’t changed. The...

There are many different ways to add ABS slurry through your printer bed each has their own advantages and disadvantages. One of the easiest ways to get a full and like coating across the entire bed to use an atomiser spray bottle. Simply decant some acetone into the bottle at roughly 1/10 volume of old waste ABS scraps and give it a little shake. Observe over the next hour and you will see the ABS fully disintegrate into the acetone. You should note that white ABS sometimes contains other articles which do not dissolve, however the ABS slurry will...