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Hold-Down Clips for Makerbot Orange Acrylic Build Sheet

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Hold-Down Clips for Makerbot Orange Acrylic Build Sheet by OSU_FYE Dec 4, 2009
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Nothing original here, just standing on the shoulders of giants and copying their designs/ideas (see gator clip, horseshoe clip). This smaller clip is for holding down the orange acrylic plate that Makerbot uses for a build surface. The plate tends to warp a bit after several uses, and a couple of strips of double stick tape along with these clips appears to solve the problem. Hope you find it useful.

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Thanks for the response. I'm having considerable trouble with warpage on large objects, and since it appears that the solution is PLA plastic, I am staying with small stuff until PLA is available. So yes, you are correct, these clips would interfere with a large object. The last large object I tried resulted in a broken plastruder, since I tried to get a 70% spread on the beginning raft surface and the tip started dragging which stripped the threads out of the thermal block (better to lose the thermal block than the entire plastruder). Replicatorg needs a BIG estop buton and a buffer flush. It's very difficult to stop a process when bad things happen.

I love this, because i printed out almost the exact same thing early on. It works great, but on large prints doesn't the print head kick the clips off the edge of your build platform? That has been my biggest problem, anything having a raft bigger then 80x80 will start to kick off the clips.

Any ideas on how to keep the clips on?

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Hold-Down Clips for Makerbot Orange Acrylic Build Sheet by OSU_FYE is licensed under the Public Domain license.

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Remember to activate the skeinforge "multiplier" for 2 by 2 before loading the stl file. I used a raft (default settings), but then I tend to use a raft for everything.
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jrombousky on Dec 9, 2009 said:

I love this, because i printed out almost the exact same thing early on. It works great, but on large prints doesn't the print head kick the clips off the edge of your build platform? That has been my biggest problem, anything having a raft bigger then 80x80 will start to kick off the clips.

Any ideas on how to keep the clips on?

OSU_FYE on Dec 15, 2009 said:

Thanks for the response. I'm having considerable trouble with warpage on large objects, and since it appears that the solution is PLA plastic, I am staying with small stuff until PLA is available. So yes, you are correct, these clips would interfere with a large object. The last large object I tried resulted in a broken plastruder, since I tried to get a 70% spread on the beginning raft surface and the tip started dragging which stripped the threads out of the thermal block (better to lose the thermal block than the entire plastruder). Replicatorg needs a BIG estop buton and a buffer flush. It's very difficult to stop a process when bad things happen.

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