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* Dec 20, 2010.  (Elliot)  A while ago, printed out a brutstruder head for the reprap. [[Image:reprap_brutstruder.jpg|100px]]  Assembled, installed, and tested it out last night, and it's a winner.  Bought a new gearmotor to replace the old one which was slow and spineless.  The thermistor is installed, but I haven't tweaked the relevant settings in the firmware, and not sure that I know how, so the hot end appears to be still running open-loop.  This is no good.

* Nov 27, 2010.  (Elliot)  I finally got up the courage/stupidity to completely remove, disassemble, clean, and re-install the hot end on the reprap extruder.  Photos and documentation are at [[Rebuilding the RepRap Hot End]].  The short version is that now it's nicely free-flowing and the extrusion speed is limited by the motor (slow!).  I also added a 100k thermistor taped to the nozzle (a la makerbot) but I don't know how to re-integrate it into the machine.  I also may have left too much of the insulation near the nozzle.  If it tears/drags, feel free to trim it.