Thursday, July 1, 2010

Day 8: Learning how to Bake & Clean Tips

Everythings seems to be working correctly, but very little if any thread comes out.  The team has been baking my tip & barrel at 220F for 2 hours.  Duh. I measure in Degrees C don't I?  That should have been 428F Team!!!

Anyhow, after 2 hours in the oven at a low temp of 104c, most the gook came out.  So it was a long bath in acetate.  After this first bath of about 8 hours, Padawan was able to see light through the Tip.

Dataman then decided to try pushing the alignment guide, that metal bar thingy, into the barrel.  That mucked up the tip again. 

They cleared the tip again by poking a pin through the nozel, but Dataman was a bit concerned that we gunk just under the tip.  This was confirmed when we jammed up again and could not print.

Back to the oven again...

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