3D PRINTER INSTRUCTIONS
by Scott Ananian

1. to make the ultrasonic cleaner work, open it up, take out the basket, put your parts in. set the timer using buttons 1-4. press the big "start timer" button to turn it on. UNKNOWN: how to make it stop? [if you want to check progress, say]

2. [WARNING: NOT CHECKED WITH JOHN; THIS MAY NOT BE THE BEST WAY. IT WORKS FOR ME.] If you see something going wrong on the 3D printer (it's putting your part in the wrong place on the foam, say) to stop the machine press the small red 'stop' button. A red light will start flashing on it. NOW GO OVER TO THE COMPUTER and go to the 'FDM Send' window AND PRESS CONTROL-C. TYPE Y. *Now* go back to the machine and press the 'reset' button next to 'stop'. The red light will stop flashing. You can open a new 'FDM Send' and re-send your file and restart from step 8 in the tutorial. NOTE in step 10, you will now only have to press pause ONCE instead of twice. Oooh, mystery. UNKNOWN: if you want to give up and *not* resend your file, how do you make the support temperature go back down again? (The tutorial says, "don't let the machine sit unused at the 235C setting. This will cause problems with the support" but I don't know any way other than successfully completing a part to get the temperature back down.)

3. NOTE FOR MAKING VERY LARGE PARTS (i.e. 9.875" across) a) the "default zero" (at the end of step ten of the tutorial) that the 3D printer places itself in is *not* the leftmost possible location (despite seeming like the machine positioned itself in the lower left extreme of its range). You can place the head further to the left; lining the center of the head up *exactly* with the edge of the foam works for me; Quickslice seems to add a slight offset from zero on the X axis that makes this work fine. b) If your piece is *really* large, you can adjust the base "oversize" to .02" from the default .05" on the "supports" menu. I needed to do this to get my piece to fit.