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Hello all,

Bought a Rostock Max V2 off mcslappy and have been printing away ever since.

Just finished off the enclosure today. now I just have to clean off all the finger prints and residue from the tape I used to protect while on the table saw.

[img]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd104/91ows/6192dac4-9778-4ba1-8ce2-31a3a940b905.jpg[/img]

I will need to buy a voltage regulator as all the leds are flicking a little but its still to annoying to leave

[img]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd104/91ows/057869fb-7d9d-40b0-b614-d6f8d0795fc5.jpg[/img]

and finally the brackets used to hold it all up

[img]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd104/91ows/4ff3d715-76de-4e8b-95af-42d94d9eeb40.jpg[/img]

Thanks hope to get to know you all

That is beautiful!! Want to share the stl?

i would be more than happy to share the stl's but there are a lot of them. Hopefully I can do a write up when I get some time.

The whole enclosure is self supporting no screws needed. These are the measurements i came up.
Oh and its 752mm tall.

I agree, a really great looking enclosure.

I would trade my firstborn for the .stl's.

Anything to get this freeloader out of my house.

That's the nicest enclosure I've seen yet. It looks like it fits perfectly and the aesthetics are good too.


You should get a 1500 watt heat gun blowing in that thing to get it up to temperature really fast! Does the thermal expansions of the arms mess it up during operation? And do the belts and motors have problems with the heat?

Yeah this looks awesome! I may have to copy this mod if you don't mind! I don't print much ABS, but if / when I get into nylon it would be nice to have! Very well done, I'm impressed with your work!

EDIT** I really need to learn how the type more accurately

For ABS having an enclosure is like the difference between night and day. it hasn't affected the belt or arm, however the longest print I've had on with it so far has been 13 hours more time might pose a problem. I let you know if / when I come across it. Going to be putting on a 56hr print next week so that should be a good identifier of a problem.

Motors apart from extruder and underneath so they don't get affected. On the ezstruder I have a 40mm fan which I'll end up porting to the outside. It won't cool down the chamber because air will go in, over stepper and then exit the enclosure.

Don't know how much exposure it'll get here in introductions section but anyways here goes..

most (not all) the STL's below will need modifying. I will update them hopefully on Saturday (I'll write modified after it so you know its been done). But just incase you want to change them in the meantime then here they are.

Please READ BEFORE printing them:

//////The Bottom corners need the towers removed (very important) otherwise you will lose bed volume as the arms can't travel as far down////// (I cut mine off with a band saw will print them again as soon as I get some more ABS)

- I was unable to get the arch on the corners perfect the is a 2mm gap (see Picture below sorry about quality) 2mm isn't much but it does annoy me that I messed up.
- All the pieces are printed in many pieces on purpose this allows for some movement for miss cut perspex (or plexiglass I think it's called?)
- I glued all the pieces together with Weldon 3, it's like water so be careful if it spills on your job DO NOT wipe it let it dry. You will need an applicator bottle the finer the needle the better for a beginner.
- You might be wondering why I made the groove so deep in the top frame, if it's not you won't be able to get them on later. You probably could make them a little less deep but it might involve a lot a swearing when it comes time to fit (believe I did a lot of this, I could probably buy another V2 with the money in the swear jar)
- the top part that sits above the door has a slot in it. This is for a strip of LED's they're purely for my need to have some geek factor, they have no function apart from illuminating the doors edge.
- obviously you will want to put your machine's name on the bottom panel instead of mine. Mines called 3D Portal because I'm a Portal nut yes I did mention I am a Geek

on my 3rd post I put up the measurements for the perspex note that some pieces have a 10 degree cut some a 20 degree cut and some both. If you need some pointers on gluing and how to get the angle right when gluing let me know and I'll try to explain it with some pics that i took when i made it.

[img]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd104/91ows/IMG_0643.jpg[/img]

I'll get you a better photo when I can this one is not clear at all. where you see the white strips is where the gap is.

My kit should arrive from mcslappy tomorrow and the enclosure will be on the list too.

Well done, you have done a terrific job

Bob

Very nice enclosure!

I should have figured it would come from a quad copter guy... There are a whole lot of us here, what flavor of controller are you using? APM? OpenPilot? KK?

Thats great mcslappy is a top guy and you will definitely notice a difference with the enclosure.

HAHA I was scratching my head thinking how do you know i fly quads...but yeah photo bucket. I used to use the KK but noticed that hobby king screwed the guy that came up with it, so I won't be buying it again. Was looking into openpilot for the next one. Are you still selling the carbonfiber frames?

Sorry i haven't got around to modifying the enclosure brackets yet but I will do them atm I've started to many projects at once. Luckly I don't require sleep


Something I'm working on atm.

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nitewatchman wrote:I agree, a really great looking enclosure.

I would trade my firstborn for the .stl's.

Anything to get this freeloader out of my house.

I doubt he would want that if it looks anything like your avatar.

Hi Will!
It looks like support will be needed to print most of your enclosure files. May I ask what slicer you used and did you have support turned on?

teoman wrote:

nitewatchman wrote:I agree, a really great looking enclosure.

I would trade my firstborn for the .stl's.

Anything to get this freeloader out of my house.

I doubt he would want that if it looks anything like your avatar.

My young-en and me.

Growed up and haired over.

Hey - adding my voice to the chorus of "great work - amazing looking enclosure!"

I'm a noob - will be starting to build up my Max v2 in a day or two and thought it would be great to
do this enclosure as an early project - which begs two questions:

1) I'm going to be using mostly T-Glase and maybe some PLA, but wish to avoid ABS - is an enclosure still needed/helpful?
2) If so, a. would either of those materials be acceptable substitutes for ABS?
b. are those .stl files still on the fix/mod list, or shall we just do the best we can with what we've already
been so graciously given?