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Questions about Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) as an additive manufacturing technology.

Fused Filament Fabrication (or FFF) is an additive manufacturing technology that involves plotting the many 2D layers that a slicing engine takes of a 3D model.

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My heated glass print bed keeps chipping and cracking. How can I prevent this?

My thermoplastic FDM printer has a heated bed and uses glass as the printing surface. Sometimes the glass will chip or break entirely when I'm removing my print. This happens most often when the print has a large area in contact with the glass. What…
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MakerBot Replicator 1 Voltage Regulator Fix

My Replicator (you know, the one made of balsa wood) has blown a voltage regulator on its MightyBoard for the second time. The first time, MakerBot graciously replaced it. However, they replaced with the same model board with no apparent fix for the…
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Raft hard to remove?

I've been having a hard time lately getting the raft off of my ABS prints. Is that a symptom of either a nozzle or bed that are too hot? Or is there some other factor I should be looking in to? I have an UP mini that I've modified both the nozzle…
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Is it possible to use an aftermarket controller on a MakerBot?

I've got a dead MakerBot Replicator Dual and I'm not really interested in fixing it with about half the parts being proprietary, discontinued, and therefore very expensive. So, I'm wondering if it's possible to use a controller board used on some of…
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