The story of my 6ft tall printer
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:45 pm
So I thought maybe it would be a better idea to move my original thread too here, since its still a build in progress.
let me tell you a bit about myself, Im Ed. DC native living in NYC now, Im a professional bike mechanic, who just fell in love with 3d printing. What brought me here was the idea of making my very own carbon bike frames. The biggest issues i always had was making prototypes of my frames efficiently and precise. I found that 3d printing could help with that ALOT.
Started with a stock Rostock Max V2 on February 1st and have almost upgraded very components since then. What I want to do with this thread is to document my build process as i perfect the entire build and hopefully start producing my frames. I want to hear everyone's input on what im doing wrong and how i could possibly make this project better.
any this is a re-post of another thread of mine i guess i just had it in the wrong section. Let me know what you guys think so far.
The idea of the full project is to have a fully working delta printer with at least a 4.5ft build height, as well as dual hotends. As of right now Up-graded the build height from its original 14.5in to 4.5 build height. It works really well so far, calibration is a pain but i plan to solve that very soon. I went the mistake with using a very long bowden tube thinking it would be plug and play and work correctly. Unfortunately I found out the hard way that longer tubes equal more issues with under exstruding and retraction. My fix to this is retrofitting the printer to work with a flying exsturder, though my plan is to make it work with 2 motors instead of one.
Here is the design
[img]http://s13.postimg.org/c2lnhre0z/efuydyjcv.jpg[/img]
Made to work with ezstruder from seemecnc.
I modeled it off of the flying exstuder used on the Delta Wasp, so lets see how it works out.
here is me printing it using Simplify3d to slice
[img]http://s17.postimg.org/87qmf4b3f/IMG_0518.jpg[/img]
After I have the flying exstruder working Im going to start installing my other upgrades.
Upgrade list:
24v power supply
cabron tricklaser arms
Trick trucks, and metal max platform
Bltouch sensor probe
begalbone black, and replicape controller
and a max metal frame retrofit-ed to work with the longer towers I have.
either Dual E3d hot ends, or the Chimera, with volcano upgrades, i have both so ill be experimenting with both options
I all ready own these upgrades they are just waiting for things to be printed to make them work.
Heres my printer now
[img]http://s30.postimg.org/5g0x5ic6l/IMG_0514.jpg[/img]
[img]http://s14.postimg.org/pt9q53r8t/IMG_0515.jpg[/img]
More to come very soon!!
let me tell you a bit about myself, Im Ed. DC native living in NYC now, Im a professional bike mechanic, who just fell in love with 3d printing. What brought me here was the idea of making my very own carbon bike frames. The biggest issues i always had was making prototypes of my frames efficiently and precise. I found that 3d printing could help with that ALOT.
Started with a stock Rostock Max V2 on February 1st and have almost upgraded very components since then. What I want to do with this thread is to document my build process as i perfect the entire build and hopefully start producing my frames. I want to hear everyone's input on what im doing wrong and how i could possibly make this project better.
any this is a re-post of another thread of mine i guess i just had it in the wrong section. Let me know what you guys think so far.
The idea of the full project is to have a fully working delta printer with at least a 4.5ft build height, as well as dual hotends. As of right now Up-graded the build height from its original 14.5in to 4.5 build height. It works really well so far, calibration is a pain but i plan to solve that very soon. I went the mistake with using a very long bowden tube thinking it would be plug and play and work correctly. Unfortunately I found out the hard way that longer tubes equal more issues with under exstruding and retraction. My fix to this is retrofitting the printer to work with a flying exsturder, though my plan is to make it work with 2 motors instead of one.
Here is the design
[img]http://s13.postimg.org/c2lnhre0z/efuydyjcv.jpg[/img]
Made to work with ezstruder from seemecnc.
I modeled it off of the flying exstuder used on the Delta Wasp, so lets see how it works out.
here is me printing it using Simplify3d to slice
[img]http://s17.postimg.org/87qmf4b3f/IMG_0518.jpg[/img]
After I have the flying exstruder working Im going to start installing my other upgrades.
Upgrade list:
24v power supply
cabron tricklaser arms
Trick trucks, and metal max platform
Bltouch sensor probe
begalbone black, and replicape controller
and a max metal frame retrofit-ed to work with the longer towers I have.
either Dual E3d hot ends, or the Chimera, with volcano upgrades, i have both so ill be experimenting with both options
I all ready own these upgrades they are just waiting for things to be printed to make them work.
Heres my printer now
[img]http://s30.postimg.org/5g0x5ic6l/IMG_0514.jpg[/img]
[img]http://s14.postimg.org/pt9q53r8t/IMG_0515.jpg[/img]
More to come very soon!!