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Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

Can someone help me confirm that this is just an in-line filter for the 110V input (bottom board)? There is a switch in there too.

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Hot End Cooling with Heated Chamber - 10 years ago

I'll get model #'s from the 4 blowers for heaters on the heated chamber setup too.

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Hot End Cooling with Heated Chamber - 10 years ago

Happy to help or answer any question. I'll get the info tonight when I get home from work, but here are some more pics of the system that might answer your questions: I'm looking for a lighter duct for mine, is there anything printed on the grey tube? not that I can tell, but I'll look closer Can you describe it's diameter? ~1", but I'll measure I'm wondering how stiff it is? I dont have a go

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

Quotejaguarking11 QuoteTFinleyosu I'd really like to keep the DC motor/encoder setup if I could. It is a strong motor (265 in-lbs) with a very fine resolution 1000 ppr. It's not the norm and it may cause some extensive troubleshooting, but reverse engineering this thing work is 90% of the fun for me. In my opinion, the only reason to get rid of the DC motor/encoder is because it's not "supported

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

I'd really like to keep the DC motor/encoder setup if I could. It is a strong motor (265 in-lbs) with a very fine resolution 1000 ppr. It's not the norm and it may cause some extensive troubleshooting, but reverse engineering this thing work is 90% of the fun for me. In my opinion, the only reason to get rid of the DC motor/encoder is because it's not "supported" by normal hardware/software/firm

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Hot End Cooling with Heated Chamber - 10 years ago

Now I feel like an idiot. I am rebuilding a scrapped industrial 3d printer and I didn't realize that it had forced ambient air onto the extruder. I hadn't pulled off the siding. I thought the grey tube was for electrical and the plastic difuser was on the bottom of the machine. I think I'll stick with this then. ' Thank you for your effort to help me out. Here is are some pics for someone in the

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

Here are some pics of the components. Sorry the pics are not correct orientation. I'll figure that out later on imgur The biggest thing that I'm worried about is that the stepper motor for the extruder is actually a 24v dc motor with optical encoder. That scares me a little.

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Hot End Cooling with Heated Chamber - 10 years ago

So the water cooler is just a single through hole in the heat sink? The water jacket was my way of transferring the heat efficiently around the aluminum cylinder.

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Hot End Cooling with Heated Chamber - 10 years ago

Initially I was considering going with an E3D V6 hot end, but I really didn't like the mounting options and now this might be a problem. However, now I'm considering making my own heat sink with a water cooler jacket for an electric motor like this: LINK. Could be a pretty elegant solution. In that case I might only need to buy something like the J-head nozzle and screw it into my custom heat

by TFinleyosu - General

Hot End Cooling with Heated Chamber - 10 years ago

I'm curious if you need to change the cooling techniques if you use a heated build chamber. If you're blowing 50-60°C air over the heat sink instead of 18-20°C ambient air, I can imagine this is going to impact the performance of the hot end. If so, what performance related issues will come up? Will the hot end start clogging up because it starts melting too early? Should the top of the hot end b

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

Quotejaguarking11 There are polulu style drivers for ramps that supposedly can handle close to 3A. 1.5A per phase. They might be worth buying if the stock drivers don't work so well. I believe they are the DRV8825 drivers. Correct me if I am wrong though. I doubt the stock electronics on that printer have segregated drivers. Reusing them may require a bunch of EE experience and a whole lot of c

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

Quotejaguarking11 This something I am curious of. Can you post pictures of the inner mechanical parts? I would love to see the guts of that thing. Will do! I'm tearing it down tonight to get a good peak at what electronics are left. I'll take pics during the process with details of the mechanical guts too. The rigidity of the mechanicals is what I'm stoked about to start with as a base. I would

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

VDX, Thanks for your input. I am finally getting to bring this home today. I'm going to tear it down and do some investigation on the existing hardware and report back.

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

QuoteVDX ... my understanding was, that only the controller is missing, so the motor drivers should be present ... I dont have the experience to reverse engineer motor drivers to be compatable with something.

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

QuoteOhmarinus Also check out what the voltages and amperages are for the stepper motors. The A4988 stepper drivers are maxed out at 2A but need active cooling fans and cooling elements on them in order to supply those 2A. Above 2A it would be good to check out other stepper drivers. I've used 2.5A stepper motors successfully with the A4988 drivers but anything above will need a different approac

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

QuoteVDX ... the mechanical setup is common for RepRaps, you only need to identify the wiring and needed voltage for the endstops and if the motor drivers are common STEP/DIR types - then any RAMPS or other Arduino with BOB would be suitable ... Thanks VDX. I'll probably start with with a RAMPS kit because I'm pretty familiar with Arduinos. Do you see anything wrong with this idea? Something li

by TFinleyosu - General

Re: Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

QuoteLoboCNC If it uses stepper motors, then adding on one of the common RepRap controllers should work fine. The common firmware versions are very configurable and should be able to handle what looks to be a basic Cartesian mechanism. Your biggest headache will probably be sorting out the wiring harnesses. Thanks LoboCNC. I'll probably start with trying Sprinter

by TFinleyosu - General

Rebuilding Industrial 3D Printer - 10 years ago

Hello all, Noobie here. I'm looking for some advice and by the looks of this great forum, I think I've come to the right place. I got my hands on an older 3d printer - Statasys Dimension 1200. The trick is that the guts (print head and controller) were sent back to the leasing company. However, all of the motors and hardware still remain. Before I haul it home, I thought I'd ask the experts

by TFinleyosu - General