Spare Part?

Hi guys,

When I was cleaning up, I found this part that came with the RepRapProd Mendel kit from RepRap.com.

The build is finished so, is this something optional?

Does anybody can tell were this goes?

Thanks.

Pedro

I don't think it's off the RepRap!

Thanks ... I've looked at the building manual and I could not find it mentioned anywhere, so I suspected that it was somehow inserted on the bag by mistake, but I wanted to be sure.

Regards,

Pedro.

I've built 2 mendels from RepRapPro bought in their christmas offer and I now have 2 of these bits

No idea what it is.

Ben

it looks like a PCB holder of somekind

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Can anybody from reprappro.com be kind enough to enlighten us?

hmmm r the guys from reprappro related to this site? they do look like similar logos though?

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redreprap Wrote:
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> hmmm r the guys from reprappro related to this
> site? they do look like similar logos though?

RepRapPro is run by Adrian Bowyer, the founder of the RepRap project.

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... I think, it's mainly run by Sally, his daughter ... Adrian is one of the 'shareholders' and helps out if needed

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@VDX: Adrian is still very much involved with reprappro - he wrote the firmware for the Tricolour, prints parts, trouble shoots problems, writes slicing software, develops new firmware that is platform agnostic, does lots of R&D, spreads the word about reprap generally...

The spare part is this one [github.com]

It was intended to be used to mount a small PCB on the x-carriage of what is known as the 'Legacy' Mendel, which I think would have provided power distribution to multiple hot ends. However, this wasn't implemented, instead a second Melzi is needed to provide control of the extra extrudes and hot ends. So don't worry about it, it's an extra!

Awesome thanks for the reply I figured it must have not been required as it wasn't mentioned in the build instructions at all and I got one with each printer kit.

Ben

Thanks droftarts.

Very useful information and enlightening information.

Regards,

Pedro.

droftarts Wrote:
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> @VDX: Adrian is still very much involved with
> reprappro - he wrote the firmware for the
> Tricolour, prints parts, trouble shoots problems,
> writes slicing software, develops new firmware
> that is platform agnostic, does lots of R&D,
> spreads the word about reprap generally...
>
> The spare part is this one
> [github.com]
> e519631bb599f68b0ab0334c9bf6f23/Print-mendel/Indiv
> idual-STLs/hot-end-pcb-bracket-1off.stl
>
> It was intended to be used to mount a small PCB on
> the x-carriage of what is known as the 'Legacy'
> Mendel, which I think would have provided power
> distribution to multiple hot ends. However, this
> wasn't implemented, instead a second Melzi is
> needed to provide control of the extra extrudes
> and hot ends. So don't worry about it, it's an
> extra!