The Makerbot 2 is widely acknowledged by the developer community to have a faulty design in key component.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:42250
I ordered a print of one from the guy who designed a replacement. I could have printed it and assembled it myself but paid for it as a form or reward/encouragement.
Then I put it in a box for 5 months.
— James McParlane (@DrMiaow) July 27, 2013
If I ever got into the situation where I could no longer print because the original faulty part had failed, I could fit it and carry on.
This weekend, that happened 🙂
Failed print. … Now printing the extruder upgrade… https://t.co/kTjMozDy2D
— James McParlane (@DrMiaow) July 28, 2013
Then I downloaded the latest revision of the fix and printed that 🙂
Printing latest plunger revision with the previous revision that replaced the dud version. #bootstrapping https://t.co/48e5YYTIga
— James McParlane (@DrMiaow) July 28, 2013
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