Re: Curious delta problem: slanted prints
Quotesquishyheadboy RostockMini4tw, Thanks for the info. It's interesting that your problem went away when you switched to a smaller pulley - that should mean more steps per mm movement, which in turn...
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I dug up some old printer gears, It looks like I will be designing my own wades design extruder. It looks to me that any gears I print will become high wear items. Your designs look promising however....
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Re: Extruder options.
Quotevreihen This interesting extruder just popped up on Thingiverse yesterday: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:409594 Image02_preview_featured.jpg It looks beefy enough where I wouldn't be worried...
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Quotehercek Custom: OpenSCAD source file. [attachment 37511 extruder.jpg] I like this one the best as a design. I think I'm going to copy this one and resize to my gears.
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I got one complain about it: a missing filament quick release. But I do no miss it personally. When changing filament I need to heat up hot end anyway and when printer is powerd up I can just use...
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Check this out. [www.thinkyhead.com]
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Quotehercek I got one complain about it: a missing filament quick release. But I do no miss it personally. When changing filament I need to heat up hot end anyway and when printer is powerd up I can...
View ArticleRe: Calculating rods length and radius for X Y and Z towers
Quotejaguarking11 This is what I used for my printer. You don't have to be 100% acurate on the rod lengths, however you do have to be very accurate to match the rods to each other as close as...
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A really good rule of thumb is to make the rods 80% of the distance between the tower centres. It's always worked for me.
View ArticleRe: Cherry Pi III Is Available
For anyone who's interested there's a video on Youtube of CP III with 8mm ball and socket rods going through it's auto calibration routine [www.youtube.com]
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Quotemaso The new string-spring plan looks like a good one! Is the change due to some problem with the magnet plan, or is it more to simplify the design? I haven't quite finished my printer yet, so...
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Quotemaso A thought that occurred to me while I was building my printer was that if the pivot-points for the arms (was magnets, now balls) were located higher up on those carriages, it'd be possible...
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Hi Andy many thanks for the fast answer. At the moment i use johann rocholls marlin, but i´ve used rich cattel´s too. i made a lot of tests with the smoth rod offset but my printer still prints not...
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Hi Lines11 I can't see anything obviously wrong in your config, but I'm not really familiar with that version. I use Rich's v1.4. A couple of your delta values are not configured with decimal points...
View ArticleRe: Core XY Printer £100.00 Build Cost
Hi Andy, Congrats for your all great work here. Cherry Pi III and PrntQB versions seems to be perfect. I am a bit indecisive about building Delta or Corexy type 3D printer, but I think I will go for a...
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Quotereprapturk Hi Andy, Congrats for your all great work here. Cherry Pi III and PrntQB versions seems to be perfect. I am a bit indecisive about building Delta or Corexy type 3D printer, but I think...
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QuoteAndyCart Quotereprapturk Hi Andy, Congrats for your all great work here. Cherry Pi III and PrntQB versions seems to be perfect. I am a bit indecisive about building Delta or Corexy type 3D...
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QuoteAndyCart 1. Which controller board would you suggest? I am planning to get Azteeg X5, is this controller suitable to PrintQB? Any controller that supports Marlin with core xy kinematics would be...
View ArticleRe: Megatronics V2.0+Sainsmart 12864 LCD&repetier FW ,LCD does not display text
Yes, I saw the video the other day. Great job! As you know, I could not get that setup to work using delrin spheres glued to the effector/carriages with my cupped magnetic rods held in tension. I...
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I tried the "G30 A" on a 40mm bed (more than that, rods are disconnecting) until I get the new part. I runned for 17 time until I stopped it. Does it run until all parameter are staying the same?...
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