On Sunday 16 June 2013 12:58:45 Ed Nisley did opine: > On 06/16/2013 08:02 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > relocating the filament spool above the printer > > The ones I've seen align the spool axis with Y axis, with the filament > unrolling from the top toward the center of the printer along the X > axis. I think that's a good non-powered approach that shouldn't change > the printer's balance too much; rotating the entire spool with a motor > might be feasible. > > > spring-loaded idler arms > > I must puzzle over the normal filament motion, probably after relocating > the spool, to see how much it would thrash switches or wobbulate arms or > defocus images. I'd prefer to have the whole problem Go Away in the > simplest possible manner... and rearranging the mechanics might just be > the ticket. > > > I like your 'voice'. > > Long ago, a Circuit Cellar editor told me I had one of the strongest > writing voices he'd ever read. It wasn't clear that was a Good Thing, > but I'm stuck with it. [grin]
Chuckle. + VBG. Story time Ed: During the early to later 70's, in addition to my duties as tx supervisor at KXNE-TV for the Nebraska ETC Commission, I was quite active on the CB radio in northeast Nebraska, and the bench tech servicing most of them at Norfolk 2-Way Radio. Then in late 77 I moved to the CE position at a small station in New Mexico, basically bumming around following my woman, 2 years here, 2 years there, till she left in '86, but I'd found my place by then as CE at WDTV-5 here in West Virginia, where I finished out my time & took the Rolex home in 2002. Getting me an old maid school teacher in 89, we were on vacation in 95, basically touring the places I had lived over the last 50 years. I'd put a CB in the van we were driving to help keep track of the traffic, and while driving through Norfolk NE enroute to Carrol NE & my mothers stone, I picked up the mike and said "Breaker one-nine". You have got to know your voice is truly unforgettable when 4 of the old timers echo'd back with "go coyote, where ya been?". "Coyote" being the handle I'd been using since about 1962. So I had to pull over & chat till traffic from the kiddie pool got out of hand, 10 minutes or so. No respect for their elders, and 90% of their vocabulary is 4 letter words. :( That radio has been in the closet for almost 20 years now. I don't miss it a bit. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Thrashing is just virtual crashing. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
