Welcome to the club

[Sonrisa3D]

Hey all -

Just finished building, aligning, soldering, sanding, bashing my head against the work bench and finally have my first 3D printer up and running. Proud to say it is a Rostock MAX.

First print out of the gates, per the instructions, was the cube and I was very happy with the outcome. I have not done any extruder calibration yet (got antsy), that will be next. It looks like there was one layer 'kick' in there but cant argue for a first pass. The infill on the cube pillars was solid (the rest of the cube was 25%), which is a slicing and extruder issue rather than machine setup.

Being an engineer I made a few machine modifications throughout the build, I'll post those later for others to follow if you dare.

Looking forward to joining the madness here on the forum.

Cheers,
David

[Batteau62]

Welcome to the rabbit hole

Just curious What form of liquid cooling are you using from that lime green insulated tank in the pic of your machine

Nice first print

[Eaglezsoar]

Welcome to the Forum! And the very first print from your new Rostock looks great.
Hope to see you around here more often.
Happy Printing!

[MSURunner]

Welcome to the rabbit hole

Just curious What form of liquid cooling are you using from that lime green insulated tank in the pic of your machine

Nice first print

Looks to be High Mountain Banquet Light. Has amazing chilling capabilities

[Nylocke]

Looks like you're using the trick laser arms and a custom extruder?

[Sonrisa3D]

@Batteau - no liquid cooling, that is just an EZStruder Mount up there and the filament spool is off to the left.

@Nylocke - I started sanding those stock arms and gave up. I couldn't imagine any form of success without the graphite arms. I thank the forum for that find.

The Extruder mount i used was this:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:133766
It works, not the most ridged thing in the world, but i was looking for quick function, it will probably stay there for a long time.

I made some door hinges so you can take the door panels on and off, i'll post that this weekend.

[Sonrisa3D]

@MSURunner - the only cooling that took place for this build was the 30-rack of Coors light (pictured in the foreground)... a must have for the ~20 hours of total build time.

[Batteau62]

@MSURunner - the only cooling that took place for this build was the 30-rack of Coors light (pictured in the foreground)... a must have for the ~20 hours of total build time.

I'm originally from Colorado, good choice for "liquid cooling" and the "lime green insulation" on it's "tank" is a must during not only build, but marathon printing as well Here's to a silver bullet every time Cheers

[MSURunner]

@MSURunner - the only cooling that took place for this build was the 30-rack of Coors light (pictured in the foreground)... a must have for the ~20 hours of total build time.

Yeah, I agree. We chose to build ours outside the school and bring them back for that very reason haha.