• Name: Vik Olliver
• Email: vik@diamondage.co.nz
• Company Name: Diamond Age Solutions Ltd.
• Company URL: http://diamondage.co.nz
• Country: New Zealand
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MkII Extruder made from Adrian's FDM'd parts. The clamping effect is achieved by rubber rollers salvaged from an old printer paper feed roller, and the holed for the studding were drilled out for M4 'cos M3 studding was hard to get.

Some of the washers are very close, and in unimportant cases actually overlap. This can - and will- be solved with a few deft strokes of the file. The screws are not cap screws as they're scavenged from parts kindly donated by ECONZ Wireless.

The gearbox is also ECONZ salvage, and I've replaced its original 6V motor with a 12V motor from an Epson tally printer. The screw thread is not yet fitted, and so I've not built the mounting for the gearbox - it's just held there by the clamp.

-- VikOlliver - 27 Nov 2005

First 3D Cartesian axis

No electrics other than the motor on the stage though. Should take standard circuitry, which I may try building on vero. But it does have steppers on all 3 axes:

• First 3D Cartesian reprap axis:
  

VikOlliver - 28 Dec 2005

• Extruder controller with comms and TIP31 transistor drivers.:
  

• Mk 1 FDM Stage assembled without limit switches:
  

• All 3 axes FDM'd and assembled under a concrete nozzle.:
  

• The concrete insulator fitted to an extruder under test @107C:
  

• The first run of the X-Y axes with extrusion and java-levelled Z axis.:
  

• First crack at Produce test. Hexagon on left, square on right. Y axis underscaled.:
  

• Plot of single Produce layer using a pen instead of extruder.:
  

• This is the first recognisable extrusion by the RepRap. A square and hexagon.:
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• Exaggerated helical gear made with Forrest's involute profile script.:
  

• Electric screwdriver used to drive extruder, held with Polymorph:
  

more Blog Photos From Vik.

• RepRap Logo in Vienna (full size):