I was attempting use a Craftsman bench press to center drill Titanium bolts with HSS drill bits. It didn’t go well so I’ve made a tool to square the table.
Drilling Titanium (with HSS Bits)
About two years ago I decided that Titanium would make a great material for a throat nozzle. Throat nozzles being the bit between the heatsink and heater on a 3D printer. Fast forward two years. And now you can purchase them from at least a few sources. It’s good to have my notions verified.
ZoneMinder VM (Ubuntu 18.04)
I’ve created this ZoneMinder VM using the Open Virtualization Format save option in VirtualBox. It includes a default install of Ubuntu 18.04 with ZoneMinder 1.32 mostly configured. And it’s set up to run in the Apache 2 root directory.
Igus Drylin Bushings: Replacing Bearings on a 3D Printer
My Prusa i3 Mk3 printer’s LM8UU bearings were acting up. It could’ve been an issue with the installation. Or they might’ve just been junk out of the box. Regardless, it’s time to replace them.
With three Igus Drylin bushings in-hand I’ve decided to swap those in on the printer, at least temporarily.
Improved Filament Spool Holder (with optional motor)
If you need a spool holder that does the job and has an optional mounting area for a DC brushless motor, here it is. I still need some refinement of the motorization option. But it’s otherwise functional. Sure, there were quite a few other spool holders. None of the ones I browsed on Thingiverse had…
Sealed 608 Bearing: Should You Clean It or Just Oil It
.I’m now faced with a slight dilemma. The 3D scanner table has been modified for a 608 bearing and printed out. And as it turns out the 608 bearings I intended to use are a gummed up with shipping oil. Should we clean out the bearings with Acetone? Or just drown them in some PTFE…
Prusa i3 Mk3 MMU 2.0 Banging on Start
If you haven’t seen it yet Prusa’s i3 Mk3 MMU 2.0 printer module offers up multi-material printing using five pre-loaded filaments with a single extruder. The magic happens with a fairly ingenious filament selector module hanging out above the printer proper. And it works. The selector is adequate at selecting filaments and I’m not seeing…
Cheapest EBay Filament! Good Deal or Total Junk?
In our new series of videos on YouTube we ask an important question. Is the cheapest PLA 3D Printer filament on EBay a shrewd deal or total garbage? Initially I’ve weighed out the filament. And over the following weeks I’ll be printing with the entire 2.2lb (1kg) spool to see if it’s worth your hard…
Disable Middle Click to Close in XFCE4-Terminal
If you’ve used XFCE4 Terminal as a terminal emulator on the desktop you may have noticed an odd behavior. Every so often a tab will inexplicably close while you’re using it or floating the mouse pointer by it on the desktop. As it turns out this is a middle mouse button click to close. In…
Eken H9/H9R/H9S Action Camera WiFi Connection
You may own an Eken H9 series action camera. You may, like myself, have gotten a few different lenses for it to modify it for your own, non-fisheye, use. But how will you connect to it either through a wire or wireless? All you need is an application (VLC will do) that can read in…