How to recycle a ReprRapPro MENDEL

Hello All,

I bought a RepRapPro Tricolor Mendel v2 some years ago. I well used for 2 years until having issues with it. After that I bought an UM2 and then forgot my mendel while a certain time.

Today I'd like to do something with this machine. I have some vitamins in stock as screws and M8 stings. I'd like to get your experiences with this machine or similars in recycling or upgrading.

What do you think about ? What would be a good printer to rebuild with this old machine parts?

Thanks

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Reprappro Tricolour Mendel / Alpes-Maritimes [06] (FRANCE) - 06530 PEYMEINADE

Go with a Reprap Samuel

https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Samuel

Thanks, I started to have a look on it. It's a pity this project seems not to progress a lot and looks too close to a mendel for me.

I'd rather like starting with a studier frame for this project (metal, plexy or mdf). I started to make designs with improvements reusing a maximum of old parts (mechanic, elecrtonic), but totally squeezing printed parts.

I already started to modify Marlin to match a first design.

If you have other suggestions they are welcome, I'll try on my side to create a new project if I can't find anything satisfactory.

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Reprappro Tricolour Mendel / Alpes-Maritimes [06] (FRANCE) - 06530 PEYMEINADE

my first mendel was a rpp mendel and since them i 've built three of them. some of them ( 2nd and the 1st rpp ) did served me well but i dont own them any more. I am builting a 4th of them which was started on 2018 but left unfinished due to other projects. . Now i am rebuilting it i expect to be able to print easily at more than 100mm/sec. keep in mind i am printing only ABS, which it needs to be slow if you dont have a chamber.

it is a nice machine and easy to upgrade to moddyfied and it is a original reprap as it can really produce itself... i don't know what board does this mendel of urs has but if it isn't duet this is one easy upgrade you can do...

some photos of my last ( 4th ) one .



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2019 01:31PM by Gaou.

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I put the first Mendel I built in a Lack-style enclosure and use it for my ABS prints. I just finished an overhaul of its extruder, worked around a blown mosfet, rewired it, re-squared and tightened the frame, and set up OctoPrint control/monitoring. It may be worth doing similar, simply rebuilding it and dedicating it to specific prints/materials or making it part of a larger enclosure build.

Thanks for the answers. I started a while ago the Ikea Lack-style enclosure too but never finished Finally the best thing to do with this old machine is maybe to improve it.

Hurry the Reprap world and opensource machines

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Reprappro Tricolour Mendel / Alpes-Maritimes [06] (FRANCE) - 06530 PEYMEINADE