I am a long time user of a Malyan M150. After a few upgrades and many problems with the wiring, a Drylin bearings upgrade, glass substrate and stiffer baseplate upgrade, I started liking the printer. I have used it for about two years. Intended to change the extruder assembly to a Bowden type, but have not still got the chance. I have also intended to build a printer from the ground up, a xy orby SaleB - Extruded Aluminum Frames
Real life took precedence for a few months, but I am still actively reading all the comments. Quotelkcl ok please for god's sake don't use removable drivers. i've mentioned this any number of times but the history behind the original sanguilino-based reprap printer board for the very first mendel was that they used *prototyping* boards supplied by the manufacturer, which you see on those littlby SaleB - Extruded Aluminum Frames
While researching I found out that I was mistaken to think that there is no need for 32bit platform inside a Cartesian type printer. I have found an excellent topic discussing it at StrackExchange. So I concluded that it may practical to go 32bit. The proposition to look at the heater elements was excellent, so I will size down my initial idea. The options that I think about at the moment are 3by SaleB - Extruded Aluminum Frames
The idea with a drawer is very nice, I did not think about that option. I know the ebay possibility, but it's much more unusable from my standpoint. I am in Europe outside EU (Serbia), so the shipping from US is mostly very expensive. The shipping from EU is sometimes at a reasonable level, but there come the import taxes on everything that is new or looks like new and import denial for every iby SaleB - Extruded Aluminum Frames
Thank you for the pointers, all of them very good. I would design all in 3D before buying a single part. It's just simpler for me as a novice to start from outside, from the element which can be fixed in space and to constraint the other component to the faces of the frame then to start from the heart and work my way to outside. I completely understand the point, but I will not buy a single parby SaleB - Extruded Aluminum Frames
Six months ago I have bought a Malyan M150 as my entrance into the 3D printing technology. The idea was to change a few parts, make a few suggested upgrades and make it much better. A few months later I got aware of it's limitations, so I want to build something myself. Of all the system I have seen I like Ultimaker idea the most, but I am not an mechanical engineer nor have much experience withby SaleB - Extruded Aluminum Frames
Malyan M150 is physically a Wanhao Duplicator i3 lookalike (with some subtle differences, no trimpots, different screw pattern on front and back of Y axis frame, ...). I have sorted it out. The problem in electronics was that I did not know that E motor is disabled under 170degC, so the electronics work fine and the wire is exchanged with a donor wire with metal pin intact. The ticking noise waby SaleB - Prusa i3 and variants
Hello all, sorry to say that my first massage on the forum is a motion for help. It a Malyan M150, still all stock. The machine has has done about 5kg mostly PLA filament in it's lifetime. The temperature never got above 215c. Recent problems were ticking noise from extruder associated under-extrusion at the moments of ticks. I have disassembled the extruder, lubricated the tough moving idlby SaleB - Prusa i3 and variants