Mark Rehorst's Tech Topics

The coming of winter and dry Canadian air brings snow and other awful things, but there's always a bright side:  it's perfect Van de...

My second printer, Son of MegaMax (SoM) has been a workhorse at the Milwaukee Makerspace for over 3 years, but there have been a few things ...

My experiment with the Chinese made aluminum Titan extruder was interesting, but it didn't last.  While it had great potential, it came ...

I built the sand table as a quick project for the Milwaukee MakerFaire, and it showed.  The electronics and cabling were thrown together and...

A recent debacle led me to replace the belt clamps, and while I was at it, the belts, in UMMD's Z axis.  I took the 10 mm wide steel co...

UMMD has a belt driven Z axis using steel core polyurethane GT2 belts from China.  The belts are held in 3D printed clamps and use short pie...

Here's a quick, simple one, in case you're tired of my long-winded posts. I am rebuilding the Y axis in SoM for belt drive (long-w...