I got me 3D printer, awesome!

bulb66 said:
It's happened again Mr Prusa brings another 3D Printer to the market with unbelievable features, Is it going to tempt anyone?

http://www.prusaprinters.org/original-prusa-i3-mk3-bloody-smart/

I'm not sure I will go for one and I'm more into modding the printers I have, but it is a lovely looking setup.

J.
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Well most home built printers have most of those new features now. So there is nothing there making me want to spend £800+
I looked in to a Bondtech extruder. But they are limited compared with a Titan.

I'm hoping that E3D come out with something awesome next year.
 
bulb66 said:
Really?

Care to share some links to the hardware used? Might apply some upgrades to my machines.
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I think you are having me on :D
The XYZ I gave away, had Filament Detection Sensors :) you can buy them on ebay about £4
SilentStepStick TMC2130 Stepper Motor Driver http://www.watterott.com/en/SilentStepStick-TMC2130 or ebay

As for the steel heated bed. I tried it with my glass top with very good magnets to hold a thin plate on. Didn't work out the way I wanted.
E3D has a bed that you can heat a part of it.
I settled some Borosilicate Glass from E3D and a 600W 220V 200X300mm Silicone Heater Pad. It has a mains power supply.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/600W-220V...811354?hash=item3f459c4eda:g:ggwAAOSwHnFVp7LJ

I can get to 70c in 65 seconds using that :)

I'm hoping that E3D will have a dual drive extruder out at some point.

TMC2130 https://hackaday.com/2016/09/30/3d-...130-stepper-motor-drivers-shifting-the-gears/

A good read :)

On a normal D-Bot with TMC2100 drivers
 
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bulb66 said:
E3D have some watercooled products at the TCT show, is that really needed?
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I may go up and have a look ,as I only live about 15mins from there. Free to get in :)

Water cooled hotend have come out, but they are not that good.
 
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Out of interest what does the mk3 add that the mk2s doesn't have for the extra 150 quid?

Most (to a newbie) seem like failsafe features
 
413x said:
Out of interest what does the mk3 add that the mk2s doesn't have for the extra 150 quid?

Most (to a newbie) seem like failsafe features
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If I were getting a Prusa I would pay the extra £150. It's got features that you want, skipped step recovery, filament run out and power loss to name a few.

There is also the raspberry pi header on the new control board allow a neat way to add octoprint. They have also strengthened the Y axis frame and then of course that PEI coated flexible magnetic bed .
 
bulb66 said:
How did you get on with this? Tom Sanladerer just did a video on adding TCM2130's to RAMPS, so I've ordered some to have a play with.

Tom's vid


J.
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I didn't get round to trying the TCM2130. But the TMC2100 are plug and play so I stayed with them. You can hardly hear the printer now :)
You can do more with the TCM2130 if you want to mess around with the firmware...
 
Recently picked up the Monoprice m200 as at one point it was half-price in the Black Friday sales - having so much fun and games getting bed adhesion - got it mostly dialled in now atleast for test prints, though still needs a little finenessing of one corner height of the plate for any more serious prints (I'm planning on doing project enclosure faceplates for some hobby stuff I do that I'm getting bored of drilling).

All the end user suggestions for settings with the choice of printer and filament were way way out for what I needed to get adhesion but fortunately found a guide online by someone which was spot on.
 
413x said:
My prusa mk3 should arrive in late jan. Can't wait
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Nice one :)

I've been looking at the FORMBOT T-Rex 2+3 with a laser. I know it's a clone of the gMax 3d printer
but it is pulling me back in to building another one. But I'm finding it hard to find a BOM for it :(


So anyone can get all the STL files for the gMax but no one has done a BOM.
 
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