Reprap Forum - South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group https://reprap.org/forum/list.php?106 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:05:37 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,864186,864186#msg-864186 Anet A8 - Zonestar (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,864186,864186#msg-864186
I have this clone from one of the local suppliers; I have removed the Melzi board and upgraded to a Rumba, Bed Levelling and Marlin. Has anyone done this? I have some minor issues (X end stop)...

Regards
Jean]]> Jean Vos South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Mon, 16 Dec 2019 08:04:22 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,828861,828861#msg-828861 Anet A8 - Zonestar Melzi_V3B Board (3 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,828861,828861#msg-828861
I am new to 3D printing and setups.

I would like to start a thread specifically for the Zonestar Melzi_V3B Board (Anet A8 DIY).

I am interested in Firmware locations and update methods.

And also the correct settings for OctoPrint and possible software and plugins you can recommend.

Regards,
Crim in Cape Town]]> Crimzin South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:28:31 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,709165,709165#msg-709165 Marlin Firmware Cloning (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,709165,709165#msg-709165
General instructions
Pre-compiled hex files for all printers by PRUSA RESEARCH are available in hex_files folder.
Just clone the repo and flash it to the firmware ( It is this process I have no clue as how to execute)]]> hkraft South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:24:49 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,656930,656930#msg-656930 help with hybrid build (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,656930,656930#msg-656930
i am busy building a hybrid cnc/ 3d printer , like this one [www.instructables.com].

i am having some problems with the axis controls through repetier, if i move the y axis forward then it moves, when i select y axis back it moves the z axis?

i am using a arduino mega 2560 r3 with a ramps 1.4 to control DQ542ma to run nema 23 motors,
i have disabled all end stops.

any help

thanks
Melvin]]> melvinbrucepaton South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:46:21 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,653234,653234#msg-653234 Help with Prusa-I3 (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,653234,653234#msg-653234 Please help

Kevin]]> Kev4ie South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Sun, 17 Apr 2016 05:40:14 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,505901,505901#msg-505901 LJ18A3-8-Z/BX locally (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,505901,505901#msg-505901 eviltoy South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Wed, 06 May 2015 13:16:11 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,452901,452901#msg-452901 Workshops (28 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,452901,452901#msg-452901 I have just built my first 3D Printer (entry level - Prusa I3 from DIY Electronics)
It is up and running after some minor adjustments
The print quality is fine and I expect further improvement as stability modifications are completed
My entreprenurial background includes Engineering, Manufacturing, Plastic Injection Moulding, Property Development - spanning almost 50yrs
My question is whether or not an active work group exists in Cape Town that meets periodically to exchange ideas etc?]]> JohnPowell South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Tue, 19 May 2015 05:10:07 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,337177,337177#msg-337177 PRUSA i3 calibration (3 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,337177,337177#msg-337177 So I've got my printer up and running, and got the first prints started. The XY&Z calibration is good. The problem I'm having is that the extruder head gets pushed into the print after around 7mm of printing, which utterly destroys the prints. Any advice as to what to look at? I've tried adjusting the layer height, but no luck. I'm using marlin firmware & the repetier host. I've got a 0.4mm extruder head w/ 1.75mm ABS.
Any help would be appreciated!]]> freddied South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Sun, 10 May 2015 05:31:52 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,251548,251548#msg-251548 My Super Ghetto RepRap (1 reply) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,251548,251548#msg-251548
I'm an undergrad Electrical and Electronic Engineering student at the university of Stellenbosch, and I've recently become obsessed with the RepRap. I've decided I want one of my own, and I was thinking definitely a Prusa i3 or some adaptation thereof, but that's easier said than done - buying all the parts is kind of way beyond my student-level budgetary constraints.

SO, in the name of developmental engineering, I've decided to take on the project anyway, at as low a cost as I can manage it. I've talked to my departments head electronician (if that's a word - trust me, the afrikaans sounds classier) and he's given me some old stepper motors and an (relatively new, but broken) printer/scanner combo and I'm examining them for viabilty for use in my reprap.

I'm hoping to do this whole thing for under R1000. The one thing I probably will buy outright is an extruder/hotend combo - that seems a bit beyond me. I do have a few things going for me, in terms of what my faculty can provide - I can get most of the mechanical components fairly easily (bearings, steel rods, that sort of thing) The workshop will provide me with belts (and has already provided me with the stepper motors and the printer) and we have a fully fledged PCB lab that will let me make one board at a time. Not to mention an easy and endless supply and variety of resistors and capicitors. I also *MAY* have access to a 3D printer for the 3D printed parts.

What I need help with is the following:
1) Stepper Motors -
At around R200 a pop, for 5, the official stepper motors are WAY out of budget for me. I've got some, but I don't know how powerful/useful they'll be. Any help with stepper motors would be appreciated -
An offer to donate some would be great (and I would try to reciprocate however I could - with PCB's, Resistors, Caps - all within reason of course. I'd even be happy to help people try and figure out things for their own reprap, once I've done some of this)
Alternatively (and, perhaps, more realistically) I would like to know if anyone knows of a whole bunch of dot-matrix printers that are lying around in the Winelands/Cape Town area. I hear they have great stepper motors and are strong enough for the reprap.

2) Electronics -
This, luckily, is not that big a request. I have an Arduino Uno and I'm thinking of buying a couple of these PWM stepper motor drivers (http://www.mantech.co.za/ProductInfo.aspx?Item=35M4914) and putting something together with that. I'd like someone to talk to about this, who's worked with PWM's and stepper motors before. Also, if you know of a post/article on someone who's done this (preferably specifically in the context of a RepRap controller), please tell me. Also discussion of firmware would be welcome, because I haven't really thought of that yet.

3) Sustainability - Let this not contradict me wanting kind, kind (ridiculously kind) people to donate 5 stepper motors to me - frankly, I could use the time I'd otherwise spend on stripping printers - One of my goals in this is a RepRap that's made out of E-waste and a few cheap parts, because that makes this RepRap idea just that much more democratic. It would be kind of nice to make the Hermit Crab of RepRap printers - one that's still an organism capable of procreating (the printed parts) but needs other parts from another dead animal (in this case, the old 2D printer). I know mine won't be that - I'm short on time, lucky with resources, and kind of into how my printer would look.

I'll be keeping track here of any progress (or lack thereof) I make with my RepRap. I may make a blog later, with pics, but until I've got something to show, it'll be here.]]> Juju South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:21:18 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,248006,248006#msg-248006 REPRAP Parts in South Africa (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,248006,248006#msg-248006
I don't want to come across like I'm looking for advertising but this forum is one of the places I started my 3D printing journey a few years ago and I would have loved more local interaction. I faced many challenges finding parts for my printer and ended up having to import most of the parts. This lead me to start importing and distributing parts for others!

Enter http://www.diyelectronics.co.za, I am now starting to stock many hard to find items from Hotends to Stepper motors to Belts & Pulleys to Electronics and even Laser Cut Prusa i3 frames! Please feel free to contact us for any assistance with building your 3D printer in South Africa.

Looking foward to meeting you
DIYElectronics.]]> DIYElectronics South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:58:38 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,218148,218148#msg-218148 Advice on first printer (7 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,218148,218148#msg-218148
I am new to 3D printing and need some advice on a first printer.
I have been looking at the Prusa I2 and I3, but don't know if there is anything else that I should be looking at.
My main problem in the build will be sourcing the printed parts, as I don't have access to be able to print a set of my own.

Any advice would be appreciated.

TIA

Darryn]]> darryn South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:55:10 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,203110,203110#msg-203110 Extruder head ? (3 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,203110,203110#msg-203110 TeslaSolari South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:04:28 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,170915,170915#msg-170915 Prusa DIY Kit 3D Printer - Christmas Special Offer $545 Only ! HurryX( (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,170915,170915#msg-170915
for your information http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?94,167256]]> Anonymous User South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:14 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,162920,162920#msg-162920 MMM 2012 (no replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,162920,162920#msg-162920
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(1) 3mm and 1.75mm, various colors (existing single color, red, green, yellow, blue, black, white, transparent), matching colors upon request (requires purchase of new colors is greater than the quantity of 20kg), materials includ PLA , ABS, POE,PC,TPU,etc.
(2) manufacturers supplying ,it will go by ship if more than 100kg, below quantity will go by delivey express:
(I) PLA, environmentally friendly biological materials, compostable degradation, a variety of transparent and opaque, grilled corn flavor when processed, the processing temperature of 190 ℃,tolerance is ±0.1mm.
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Pic1, packaging in 5LB, and we can packaging in 1LB,1kg,5kg as customers require.


Pic2,our customers feed back with our PLA filaments

]]> Anonymous User South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:07:15 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,20819,20819#msg-20819 McWire RepStrap (4 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,20819,20819#msg-20819
yesterday I completed the mechanical parts for my McWire RepStrap. I'm very excited.
Follow my blog for my full build experience. [iouzo.blogspot.com]
I had a bit of a hard time converting the imperial measurements to metric. I will try write up a BOM with only metric parts. I found that you could mostly substitute the original parts for anything similar.
Now its back to etching PCB's with ferric chloride for me :( Anybody know of a cheap PCB manufacturing company? IE where I can order 1 board at a time for under R50

Either way, as soon as I have all the electrics done & working & then the machine working, I will build a 2nd McWire! I want 1 to have a dremmel on it, the other a plastics extruder!]]> OuZo South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:44:23 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,8847,8847#msg-8847 Building a RepRap in ZA (86 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,8847,8847#msg-8847
I'm in Cape Town and I've just started putting parts together for a RepRap, but I've been battling to get a local supplier for PolyMorph (or equivalent). So once I've finished building the rig, I'm going to bring in some from the US - is anyone interested in sharing shipping costs etc?

Mike Davis]]> Mike Davis South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Sun, 15 May 2016 18:11:12 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,8784,8784#msg-8784 Re: (example post) Create a forum for Example_Town, Example_Country? (example post) (3 replies) https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?106,8784,8784#msg-8784
I'm Mike Davis (dodgymike@gmail.com),

Would you please create a forum for my (very) balmy home town of Cape Town, South Africa?

Thanks,
Mike]]> Mike Davis South Africa, Cape Town RepRap User Group Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:03:03 -0500