The reprap is essentially finished; it's now just a matter of finding all the little things that fail in the middle of a print and getting them nailed down. The X and Y axes were swapped so that the prints aren't mirrored. The Z and (now) Y belts were significantly tightened. The PSU was replaced after the old one went BANG and FLASH and stopped working when I added the Z stepper driver for the first time. A bunch of nuts had threadlocker put on them - some before they came off in the middle of a print... and some after. Yet another crack in an acrylic piece (although Buzz wasn't to know how fragile the stuff is...) The list keeps expanding.
We now have a filament spool made from junk and hot glue. And some appreciation of just how much more annoying a tangle is when it's in a filament that can't be arbitrarily bent and twisted. :P
Also, the stepper drivers now no longer overheat, after a liberal application of giant random heatsinks.
All hail our new giant random heatsink overlords.

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