This was a big week for us.

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This was a big week for us. Our lease on a new 12,000 sq ft space (with 180 parking spots, woot!) has been cleared and we got the keys to expand our little Kre8Now Makerspace and my printshop ArtLab Kentucky into a proper business.

Its too early to celebrate anything, as we have (literally) tons of large scale digital metal & working working tools to haul in, unending bureaucratic bs to deal with, more logistics to figure out and so on. The cheer from everyone as we opened the door was all I needed.

I’ll be spending this week focused on fixing what 5 months next door to a quarry will do to 3D printers. The really dirty motor (right one is untouched) has a solid cake of dust on the idler. Wow, I’m certainly glad to be moving my studio.

My brain is a bit burnt as of lately so what’s the best way to clean these motors? I brushed one with no cleaning products but that’s it. I really don’t want to take the actual motor apart x.x Got a shipment of 35 motors on the way though.

Thanks for all the help over the last year guys, it’s been awesome!

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Congrats on the place. That is big. I used compressed air to clean that junk off.

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Thanks! You’d be surprised how quickly 12k fills up. Heh, but about the motors. I guess a more applicable question is there anything I SHOULDN’T do?

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Big congrats

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@Ben_Van_Den_Broeck I would be very cautious with the compressed air. I would start vacuum and then a rag and then careful lubrication

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Thats so damn exciting for you guys. Our maker space is currently operating out of a 10x10 cube lol. Its just a room with tools stacked that we can look at. So cool guys, congrats.

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Yea I’m coming out of about the same. Was a room, in fact the former office of the distiller James Pepper. I’m gonna miss that dirty ass piece of history as we restored that entire building from a moldy eyesore to a mostly functional space. http://www.jamesepepper.com/history.php

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Thats great news indeed!

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@Ben_Van_Den_Broeck congratulations on the new space!