{"id":474,"date":"2014-03-17T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=474"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:40:15","slug":"squiggly-lines-and-adjustable-wrenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2014\/03\/17\/squiggly-lines-and-adjustable-wrenches\/","title":{"rendered":"Squiggly lines and adjustable wrenches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

After a brief hiatus, we are back to printing interesting things with the 3D printer.\u00a0 Today\u2019s object is an adjustable wrench requested by one of our teachers.\u00a0 The wrench is a multi-part design, so we will print it as pieces over the next couple of days.\u00a0 Come see what is printing so far!<\/p>\n

\"wrench\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, Dusty put the finishing touches on the plastic collar for the standing floor fan (the original collar was broken).\u00a0 We printed the design which works perfectly with the fan!\u00a0 We are quite pleased with the result as we were able to reproduce a complicated object with the same specs as the original:<\/p>\n

\"fan-collar1\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"fan-collar2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week, we noticed that the diagonal lines were not printing smoothly, resulting in a staircase shaped squiggly line.\u00a0 Andrew, our resident 3D printer hardware technician, lubricated the gantry system and learned how to tighten the belts that move the print heads around.\u00a0 Now the printer works perfectly again.\u00a0 Thanks, Andrew!<\/p>\n

We learned today that the Romich Foundation generously awarded us funding for two more 3D printers!\u00a0 One uses PLA plastic for handling more complicated objects.\u00a0 The other is a portable printer.\u00a0 It supports both plastic types (ABS and PLA) and will be used for offsite demonstrations such as high schools and businesses.\u00a0 We are quite excited about reaching out to the community in this way.<\/p>\n

Be sure to stop-by A-120 to see the wrench bring printed.\u00a0 It is quite fascinating!<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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Hello everyone, After a brief hiatus, we are back to printing interesting things with the 3D printer.\u00a0 Today\u2019s object is an adjustable wrench requested by one of our teachers.\u00a0 The wrench is a multi-part design, so we will print it as pieces over the next couple of days.\u00a0 Come see what is printing so far! Last Wednesday, Dusty put the finishing touches on the plastic collar for the standing floor fan (the original collar was broken).\u00a0 We printed the design which works perfectly with the fan!\u00a0 We are quite pleased with the result as we were able to reproduce a complicated object with the sameRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tjh1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}