Building my first Prusa i3 Help July 17, 2015 06:53PM |
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Re: Building my first Prusa i3 Help July 18, 2015 10:39AM |
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o_lampe
You say, you want to build from scratch.
But at the same time, you ask for smooth rods, tailored to your project and printed parts that match your needs.
A P3steel frame ( +shipping from spain ), dual extruder ( -capability ) and good linear bearings, together with a Rumbaboard will already break your budget. ( With all the other cost in mind )
I think you´re better off, buying a printer from one source instead of sourcing at different places. I printed a x-carrier from thingiverse and it didn´t match because it was made for T2.5 belt instead of GT2. Was it mentioned in the description? Hell, no!
-Olaf
Re: Building my first Prusa i3 Help July 18, 2015 12:23PM |
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"I have decided to find all the parts for the printer I plan on building, rather than buying a kit."
Re: Building my first Prusa i3 Help July 18, 2015 12:44PM |
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MegaRocketPenguin
"I have decided to find all the parts for the printer I plan on building, rather than buying a kit."
Spent a few months sourcing parts as cheap as possible. Parts of equal quality cant be bought cheaper than any kit including them under $600. I tried really hard and eventually just went with a Folger Tech kit because it is 100% impossible to source what you get in their kits for the same price or cheaper.
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Re: Building my first Prusa i3 Help July 18, 2015 12:56PM |
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mel0n
Do your own research. Here's 25 pages worth of user experiences. [forums.reprap.org]
Definitely one of the best kits for the money. Most improvements can be printed, yes some people are missing parts, but never major ones and they are very quick to ship out anything missing (they use 1 day shipping)
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Re: Building my first Prusa i3 Help July 18, 2015 01:15PM |
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mel0n
You wont be able to source parts for cheaper. and to make it bigger you will only need the associated parts, so for Z axis you would only need longer aluminum extrusions, and threaded rods if you exceed the length of the current ones. I wanted to go the sourcing my own parts route but there was just no way to beat the price/design. I could understand with an acrylic/wood/etc frame, but this thing is aluminum extrusion which is really easy to get in larger sizes. Anything is easily upgrade-able and at the price for a starting point I dont think you will do better. I personally have an E3D hotend that should get to my house today. The stock hotend isnt the greatest but at the price of the kit you really cant complain.
kit - $270
E3Dv6 - $80
1 roll of filament ~$30
total for a great printer including filament ~ $380(below your $400 budget! and includes the best hotend on the market)
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