Hi CAD321,
Great contribution documenting all the parts in the spreadsheet format. Wish I had that when I built mine earlier this year.
I bought a Printrbot Simple kit without the wood just before they stopped selling them for $249, came out with the all metal PB Simple and raised their prices by $100 for a kit with the metal.
You might consider adding a little more detail to your list. For example, the carbon fiber rods from TriDprinting are 180mm.
Misumi will give you the option of shipping everything as one package, so you don't pay as much.
McMaster Carr on the other hand will ship everything separately if the availability dates are different and so I ran up a big shipping bill for a bunch of small parts that were all dated differently.
The Printrboard is a very common board to use with RepRap printers of the cartesian design.....the ones that are not Delta design.
With the Delta design you will need to be able to upload revised firmware several times. With my MAC, and already having a Printrbot Simple, I was trying to connect two Printrboards and my MAC did not like that.
If you have a PC with Windows, you will need to download some software and get the right drivers to connect the USB to a COM port....but you will figure it out, maybe you already know this.
I really like the Ubis hot end from Printrbot, so if the Anubis is a Ubis clone, you will probably like it.
With the 3DR Delta, you have fixed dimensions, with the printed plastic parts in the horizontal dimension.
One option you might consider is building a Mini Kossel using the QU-BD parts plus the Mini Kossel plastic parts and aluminum extrusions for the horizontal and vertical parts.
But that would mean not using the bearings on smooth rods and instead using linear rails and carriages.
The Mini Kossel design is scalable. So the extra cost of the linear rails gives you the option of ordering longer horizontal extrusions.
Well, I found the 3DR Simple was less expensive to build than the Mini Kossel, but part of that was that I already had two 3D printers and printed all my own parts.
Also, I got the Printrbot parts cheap before they raised their prices.
I like your plan because you get the parts to make a Delta cheap, print your own plastic parts and buy a few other items.
You might be able to do it for less than $500. I estimated it cost me $650 to build my 3DR Simple.
Take Care
Great contribution documenting all the parts in the spreadsheet format. Wish I had that when I built mine earlier this year.
I bought a Printrbot Simple kit without the wood just before they stopped selling them for $249, came out with the all metal PB Simple and raised their prices by $100 for a kit with the metal.
You might consider adding a little more detail to your list. For example, the carbon fiber rods from TriDprinting are 180mm.
Misumi will give you the option of shipping everything as one package, so you don't pay as much.
McMaster Carr on the other hand will ship everything separately if the availability dates are different and so I ran up a big shipping bill for a bunch of small parts that were all dated differently.
The Printrboard is a very common board to use with RepRap printers of the cartesian design.....the ones that are not Delta design.
With the Delta design you will need to be able to upload revised firmware several times. With my MAC, and already having a Printrbot Simple, I was trying to connect two Printrboards and my MAC did not like that.
If you have a PC with Windows, you will need to download some software and get the right drivers to connect the USB to a COM port....but you will figure it out, maybe you already know this.
I really like the Ubis hot end from Printrbot, so if the Anubis is a Ubis clone, you will probably like it.
With the 3DR Delta, you have fixed dimensions, with the printed plastic parts in the horizontal dimension.
One option you might consider is building a Mini Kossel using the QU-BD parts plus the Mini Kossel plastic parts and aluminum extrusions for the horizontal and vertical parts.
But that would mean not using the bearings on smooth rods and instead using linear rails and carriages.
The Mini Kossel design is scalable. So the extra cost of the linear rails gives you the option of ordering longer horizontal extrusions.
Well, I found the 3DR Simple was less expensive to build than the Mini Kossel, but part of that was that I already had two 3D printers and printed all my own parts.
Also, I got the Printrbot parts cheap before they raised their prices.
I like your plan because you get the parts to make a Delta cheap, print your own plastic parts and buy a few other items.
You might be able to do it for less than $500. I estimated it cost me $650 to build my 3DR Simple.
Take Care