Help me find this printer?

So I have a healthy budget for a new printer, 4 digits, and had seen one I really liked in the past but cant find its name.

It was an extruded aluminum frame very similar to the hypercube design but could be bought directly from a company (not sure if it was a kit), it had linear rails and dual z leadscrews with a belt connecting them to a single stepper.

Really what im after is theese few key things:
*pretty big volume
*linear rail x y
*solid z
*heated bed
*must be already assembled or at least kit
corexy and bedleveling are both a plus

Any suggestions?

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/01/2019 05:22PM by DaGameFace.

Perhaps a railcore from [www.kraegar.com] ? I believe it is a kit only.

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Dust
Perhaps a railcore from [www.kraegar.com] ? I believe it is a kit only.

Very close to the one I had seen, unfortunately there is a 3-5 week lead time on kits for that railcore

FolgerTech FT5 or FT6 ??

2 week lead time.

Bonus is that its NOT 4 figures !

Folgertech:

FT-5, FT-6 Kits

[folgertech.com]

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orbitalair
FolgerTech FT5 or FT6 ??

2 week lead time.

Bonus is that its NOT 4 figures !

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cozmicray
Folgertech:

FT-5, FT-6 Kits

[folgertech.com]

I think we have a winner, have not seen this printer before but I like it

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DaGameFace

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orbitalair
FolgerTech FT5 or FT6 ??

2 week lead time.

Bonus is that its NOT 4 figures !

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cozmicray
Folgertech:

FT-5, FT-6 Kits

[folgertech.com]

I think we have a winner, have not seen this printer before but I like it

Then don't forget to get all the extras like the Rasperry Pi touchscreen, Dual Bowden system. Unless you will never print in two colors and are absolutely sure you won't in the future, then it may be a good idea to just get the normal direct drive extruder as they give better performance (less retraction needed etc).

That folgertech FT-6 is a very nice machine, I am curious about the buildplate material. Can you get PEI sheets in that huge size? You surely need a good bonding buildplate for such a size because shrinkage will become a big problem with long objects.

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http://www.marinusdebeer.nl/

Folgertech buildplate material

Aluminium composite material (ACM), are flat panels consisting of
two thin aluminium sheets bonded to a non-aluminium core.
The standard ACP core is polyethylene (PE) or polyurethane (PU).

The older FT-5 used Melamine sheets
Now all use ACM

See

[www.folgerforum.com]

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cozmicray
Folgertech buildplate material

Aluminium composite material (ACM), are flat panels consisting of
two thin aluminium sheets bonded to a non-aluminium core.
The standard ACP core is polyethylene (PE) or polyurethane (PU).

The older FT-5 used Melamine sheets
Now all use ACM

See

[www.folgerforum.com]

Sound like it's basically Dibond.

Review from back in 2010 by Hydraraptor:
>> [hydraraptor.blogspot.com]

The Mendel also used a Dibond heated bed:
>> [reprap.org]

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http://www.marinusdebeer.nl/

I bet i could order a sheet of PrintBite for either ft5 or 6, I have had a sheet of that stuff on my prusa clone since I was in highschool (about 4 years of routine use), still works like magic

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/2019 08:46AM by DaGameFace.