Starting on Front Hangers
The cutting and flappy sanding discs arrived in the post. I also collected a pair of sturdy over-pit platforms which the local engineering worksho...
Posted in red-rover on 28 February, 2015

A Second (Small) Patch
Just time for a small patch on the offside front rail this evening. I’m now out of cutting discs and flappy sanding discs until at least the weeke...
Posted in red-rover on 23 February, 2015

A quick detour - inspection pit step
I needed to get under the chassis so the time has come to remove the old doors currently functioning as a pit cover. This does, however, mean that...
Posted in red-rover on 21 February, 2015

First Patch Finished
Having been slightly distracted by making the step for the pit and then running out of welding wire, what I expected to be done on Monday of last w...
Posted in red-rover on 21 February, 2015

Chassis Welding Begins
With the weather improving enough to make it almost habitable in the workshop, I decided to get on with the welding. The nice big square hole in th...
Posted in red-rover on 12 February, 2015

Chassis Assessment
All the bodywork is stripped off and we’re down to a rolling chassis with an engine. When I bought it, it looked solid enough for a 20 year old ve...
Posted in red-rover on 01 February, 2015

Various improvements
As you can imagine, now the printer’s actually working and producing half-decent prints, I’ve been looking for useful things to print. And what’s ...
Posted in prusa-i2 on 15 November, 2013

Spool holder finished
I’ve had an interesting few days with the Reprap :) It started at lunchtime on Friday when I popped out to the workshop to print a part on my new ...
Posted in prusa-i2 on 27 October, 2013

P..p..p..print up a penguin!
After my hot-end mishap last November (I can't believe it's been that long!), other priorities and some employment changes left the Reprap gatherin...
Posted in prusa-i2 on 22 October, 2013

Farewell hot end, we hardly knew ye
Following the problems with my first print, I spent Thursday and Friday evenings sorting out the programming situation. I now have an Arduino ISP ...
Posted in prusa-i2 on 11 November, 2012