I’m not even sure I would build a Mendel if I had all the plastic parts. But for some reason I still want to have all of those parts. I have no idea why. :)
I printed up a single spring out of PLA before my extruder got clogged up. It’s my one and only Mendel piece.
Having this one piece languish next to my MakerBot strikes me as funny.
I think there’s a haiku in there somewhere.
I’ve been a total slacker about getting started printing in PLA. Part of the reason is I’ve seen others have a lot of problems printing with it – ruining extruders, oozing out of barriers, too hot, too cold, too just right, the heat is uneven, the barrel jams, etc, etc. However, since I’ve been printing larger and larger objects I’m finding that warpage is become more of an issue. This means I need to either buy/make a heated platform for the ABS or I need to switch to PLA.
There’s a few things I’d like to build that are big and flat. I’d like to print up a modular chess board (already have it designed in my head, I just need to export it to Sketchup) and crank out a few Mendel or Mini Mendel pieces.
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