PUMPKINROT.COM: What's Brewing. DevilsChariot's Photostream. Sinister Space. Fright Theatre. Blog. After two years, I think I have my Replicator (apparently the first one shipped) finally working reliably to produce >1 hour prints. Thank you @iandanforth for asking if I had a description of the mods I did and prompting me to write this. The Replicator has been a very frustrating product. After a few out-of-the-box failures, it worked great for the first week and then rapidly deteriorated. And a few months later, the Replicator 2 was announced and support for my product rapidly evaporated.
Many of the things I print are small and take <15 minutes to print, so I’ve been dealing with a <30% success rate of printing, or using other 3d printers. But I think I’ve been slowly iterating towards a reliable Replicator. The heated build platform and thermocouple issues were just bad original parts from Makerbot. Assuming the basic mechatronics of the printer work, the most critical fix is the new extruder design. In general, be sure to poke around the Makerbot Users mailing list. I Was a Custom Zombie. Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket. Haunted Overload Gallery by Artifact Images.