Rail cleaning

My UP! has seen many prints since last maintenance and I noticed that it got a little noisier.

So it was time to grab the familiar hex wrenches and looking under the metal...

Spooler

I have no idea what the correct term is but I think it is "spooler"
Anyway, my UP! 3d printer gets the plastic filament from a small spool, and wanting other colors (black) to play with I ordered some plastic filament from http://reprapsource.com/
So how do I get the large spool from reprap source to my small UP! spools?

Building a RepRap: Gathering stuff.

First I want to source as much as I can before I start building to avoid any long stops that could kill my motivation....(Cont. updated until everything sourced)
Update:2011-16, Motors!

UP! was Down! :'(

Yesterday during a 3 hour print the printer just stopped mid print having made 3/4 of the whole print. In the UP! software status bar there was the message "nozzle too cool". Not fun at all.
But during the hunt for the error I took some photos of the heating element and the thermocoupler.
(And yes it´s alive again!)

Measuring the resistance with the voltmeter gave me 150 kOhm on the heater meaning that it would need something of a few kV to get that hot. So here was something fishy.

Holiday Prusa Mendel prints

This is my continuously updated post about the prints from Kliments "Holiday Prusa Mendel",

It may not be updated every day but all the prints will be here, if not my printer breaks down or any other stuff happens.

Jump to the prints!

Update: All prints done!

RepRap Christmas special!

Kliment, who is involved in the reprap project, has just made a great holiday/christmas prusa mendel version. This might be the excuse you need to start building a RepRap, at least I´m jumping on and starting my build! You will find a new STL file every day, Christmas-themed in one way or another! And on the 24:th you will have all the parts so you can stay up all night building.
Christmas doesn't get better than this...

Christmas special STLs:
Kliment thingiverse page

Don't know what it all means? Get educated here:
RepRap Project
RepRap project, Prusa Mendel

The UP! extruder

Here are some photos of the UP! extruder and nozzle...