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[attachment 24170 rot5.png] This looks like a pretty good footprint. The drive shafts are blue, the supports red. Plywood is yellowish green. Print plate is green, print area is black on top of the...
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This is very cool! This gives me tons of ideas. I did have one question. Why do you have two separate sets of rails for the for the arms? The carriages never have to cross. Edit: I can read. I see...
View ArticleRe: New Own Design Printer 'Cherry Pi'
Hi runninfarmer I'm lucky enough to have a fully equipped workshop, my other hobby is building aeroplanes, I used my chop saw to cut the 6mm tube, and the aluminium extrusion actually, after first...
View ArticleRe: I'm Stuck. Need help calibrating endstops and Delta Radius... Please
Hi Disneytoy I used M666 successfully. All my values are negative I.e M666 X-1.65 etc. set the M666 value for your first tower, X?. Then home the carriages then run the script to take the head to the...
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@uncle_bob - What size plate are you looking at? Would you CNC away a couple of one-off standard aluminum plates?
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Re: LISA Simpson
Foam printing. Looks like AndreyR cement printer. [forums.reprap.org] There is a support weaving of a filament between the dual walls. Neri Oxman 3-D printing buildings of the future [www.youtube.com]...
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The plate I'm looking at is a 18.6875" diameter 1.25 thick cast aluminum tooling plate: [www.ebay.com] It's already nice and round so it will drop right in. At this point the heater is just a check...
View ArticleRe: Worm Drive Grounded Delta Printer
QuoteAbuMaia How are things going? How do the new shoulders work out? Did they get rid of that singularity? Sorry there has not been an update for a while. I was really busy over the holidays. The new...
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Quoteuncle_bob I’m not planning on using the aluminum plate for structure. It will just sit on top of the plywood and act as ballast. 34 lbs seems light for ~5 foot tall structure, is there a future...
View ArticleOffsets in configuration (again) 8-)
Hi everyone! To start with, what a great forum! Tons of interesting reading before I´m starting up my own printer! I want to build a delta but a little modification from the kossel mini as an extra...
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The stepper motors and the rest of the "stuff" will add to the ballast. I can always add more if I need to. I'd prefer to keep this light enough to move up and down stars if possible. That may not be...
View ArticleRe: RepRap Tuga - Concept design
Tanks, I don´t know why i did not start the build right from the start with only one set of rails... I´ve just publish the files here: http://www.openbuilds.com/threads/reprap-tuga.265/ Maybe someone...
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I just realized that with the double pair of rails you could move the slave to either side of the long arm and increase your print area by the length of the long arm. Of course there is a singularity....
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I am using a Printrboard for the drivers, so they are integrated. I do not currently have a fan / heatsink attached to them. I suppose that would make sense.. it does seem to be happening fairly...
View ArticleRe: RepRap Tuga - Concept design
One crazy idea that i just had would be to mirror the print bed and the arms, so that with the same number of motor and rails it would print two objects in just one print job. But they would be...
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I don't think you can mix and match like that. I think having two small arms on one carriage and two long arms on the other carriage is as good as it gets. If you mirror the z too on the other side...
View ArticleRe: Offsets in configuration (again) 8-)
Is your height goal a print height or the machine height? The bigger you make the horizontal area, the more vertical area that gets used up by the arms. I would suggest targeting a build height if...
View ArticleRe: Offsets in configuration (again) 8-)
Quotewretan My goal is making the (heated) build plate approx 300mm in diameter and total height of 700-800mm (haven´t really decided yet). The bigger the horizontal size of a printed part the bigger...
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QuoteA2 Neri Oxman 3-D printing buildings of the future [www.youtube.com] Neri Oxman Is it possible to 3-D print buildings? [www.youtube.com] Well, that does answers the question wheter there are...
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I just discovered vented screws. They are normal socket cap screws with holes predrilled. M8's happen to have 2mm holes. I think I might get some and try to convert my hub back to 608s. They are a...
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