On Friday 29 May 2020 14:52:21 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Friday 29 May 2020 14:20:58 Thaddeus Waldner wrote:
> > > I've dl'd that sprocket file, now what do I do with it to make a
> > > printable .stl? _Unpack it, see openscad mentioned, install
> > > openscad and friends, explore. For single sheeve, looks great. 
> > > Obviously will need to figure out how to do hubless & bolt 2
> > > together as central idler over a pair of skate bearings.  Looks as
> > > if it should work if the printer does its job.
> >
> > I believe you need to  render the part, then export the .stl. That
> > file is pretty well documented and I suppose after a lot of the
> > “explore” piece, a guy could get fluent in that language and coax it
> > to build ideas. Me, The biggest thing I’ve done is modify this file
> > to create a custom belt profile for a replacement pulley in a sewing
> > machine. This company went with a belt that looks like a HD profile
> > but with a 0.2” pitch...
> >
> > > Probably watching paint dry fun. :-) A potential problem, possibly
> > > fixable by putting the grub screws at 180 degrees, is the double
> > > d-flat on the worm shaft unless theres an option to do that to a
> > > round hole.
> >
> > I used a pair of screws at 180 degrees to keep the pulley from
> > flexing sideways too much when it’s clamped.
>
> Those flats are big enough that one could use 4 screws per side, and
> get a really rigid mount. Getting 2 axially aligned in one test render
> I did, didn't work. It apparently put both nuts in the same physical
> space. You can do that in video, but steel doesn't work that way. ;-)
>
> I'm assuming that the .stl to motion driver is included, but I see in
> one of the later videos he is touting a new case for an r-pi4, and
> just today, the r-pi folks have announced an r-pi4 with 8GB of dram at
> $75 bucks. I'm running that Sheldon very nicely with a 2GB rpi4 and an
> armhf kernel built for preempt-rt. That will obviously need a 64 bit
> kernel to use that much dram. Whats in it now for an .stl  rendering
> engine?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

And I just heard a vehicle stop and when I got to the front door, there 
was a box with an amazon label on it, with two spools of pla and a bag 
of spare nozzles in it.  So its starting to trickle in. Surprise, each 
spool of pla includes a new hot plate cover.  Overture brand.  Do they 
all include that?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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