{"id":90,"date":"2009-10-04T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-10-07T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T03:20:22","slug":"makerbot-update-extrusion-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/makerbot-update-extrusion-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"MakerBot Update &#8211; Extrusion Fail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/40600023.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"CCCKC MakerBot Ready for Extrusion Test\" src=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/40600023-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"CCCKC MakerBot Ready for Extrusion Test\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/40600023-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/40600023-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/40600023.JPG 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday the <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20102150@N06\/\" target=\"_blank\">CCCKC MakerBot<\/a><\/noindex> whirred to life, all three axes were moving freely, the extuder motor was up and running, and the heater was holding a steady temperature.\u00a0 The plastic started flowing on command and it appeared that we would be printing in no time.\u00a0 Then, approximately 1 minute and 18 seconds into extruder burn in, the plastic stopped flowing, and then panic set in...<\/p>\n<p>Well maybe panic would be too strong a word, but it was a very disheartening sight.\u00a0 After some troubleshooting, it was determined that we'd simply have to take the extruder head apart to find the problem.\u00a0 After a soak in a bath of acetone overnight the head was disassembled to reveal a shaving of PTFE from the insulator in the ABS over the opening of the nozzle.\u00a0 Hopefully everything will fit back together after a good cleaning and we can get back to extruding again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the CCCKC MakerBot whirred to life, all three axes were moving freely, the extuder motor was up and running, and the heater was holding a steady temperature.\u00a0 The plastic started flowing on command and it appeared that we would be printing in no time.\u00a0 Then, approximately 1 minute and 18 seconds into extruder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[9,16,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}