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Matt has a blog page giving his experience of various filaments. While he is awaiting a login I will post a link on his behalf:
http://mattmakes.uk/3d-printer-filament-settings/

GG Thread at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tvreprapug/uUxMglZ13NA

In the last quarter of 2013 David Price helped a group of youngsters at a school in Bracknell build their own 3D printer using a Thames Valley Rep Rap Prusa kit, South Hill Park, a local arts and media centre, made a video documentary of the 13 week project

You can watch it on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM77-Qlk7AU

In a recent post on the rlab google group (here ) regarding the laser cutter, a query about creating a dxf arose. David Price posted a solution using OpenSCAD and I thought the content was valuable. So I post it here for TVRRUG'rs

THE POST CONTENT FOLLOWS:

Over on the GG Bo has started a discussion regarding noting possible changes to be rolled into R4. This is a summary of his main points. There are pics and follow on comments on the thread.

I copy them here for future reference - Mike.

Bo's Post follows:
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So since i cant see any place to come with suggestions before the next round i will do it here... i suggest everybody else to use same thread so it is not spread over multiple and gets lost

Ian posted the following in connection with a question about settings for R3 part printing with a R1 or R2 TVRR.
I am reposting here to help populate the R3 guide.

• Number of perimeters - 2
• Number of solid top and bottom layers - 3 and 3
• Layer thickness - 0.3mm
• First layer thickness - 0.3mm
• Infill Density % - 0.3 (30%) should be fine. Use rectilinear fill - it's the fastest printing; the honeycomb fill doesn't support top layers as well.
  

We don't need to duplicate info that is available elsewhere.... I thought of this as I updated the 'buying solder' page on the Reading Hackspace wiki. Just post a link, of course this does rely on the external site continuing to exist. Maybe there is a way of easily importing a duplicate of such pages?

http://readinghackspace.org.uk/wiki/Buying-Solder

Editors Note: (MikeTheBee) This is a copy of a post Ian made over on the GoogleGroup. (https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/tvreprapug/EOPBcjttilI%5B1-25%5D)

I don't usually post about prints, but this one is a bit different, so thought it might interest the community to show what you can do with 3D printers.

This is Hannah's RepRap printing parts at Reading Maker Space last week. I was amazed how it was able to print the '1 inch bridge' at the top of this part. The noise was coming from the grinder next door, not H's printer :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYLVGm8Hfk0