I have experienced similar frustrations and am looking forward to seeing your photos and any other information you post. I was trying to get a set of drawings of the parts so I could machine them up, but ended up scrapping the idea through frustration. Everything is available as an stl file but nobody seems to have made available other formats. I have also struggled to find consistency with BOM'by tony woollacott - General
Thanks very much for your help. I checked out their website and they are out of stock of everything. Do you know any other reliable vendors?by tony woollacott - General
I am looking to buy a set of boards to build my repstrap and I found a guy on ebay who can supply the lot, but when I was checking his feedback I noticed the only neutral feedback he had was from nophead00. I think you are a respected member of this community and so was wondering who you would recomend as a supplier. I cannot afford to make a mistake on this one as my budget is already hard pressby tony woollacott - General
I am looking to buy a set of boards to build my repstrap and I found a guy on ebay who can supply the lot, but when I was checking his feedback I noticed the only neutral feedback he had was from nophead00. I think you are a respected member of this community and so was wondering who you would recomend as a supplier. I cannot afford to make a mistake on this one as my budget is already hard pressby tony woollacott - Controllers
Hello again, I have been putting together the parts I need to build my first RepStrap so I can print the parts needed to build a Mendel, and I have come to a dead end on the thermister. I cannot find any hint of what is required. Could someone help me with this please? And I was also wondering if there was a complete BOM anywhere? Thanks Tonyby tony woollacott - Reprappers
Is that the speed of the raw material or the extruded material? And what is the diameter of the raw material and where do you get it? I have almost completed the design of my extruder, but would like to know what everyone is using for heaters and thermo couples.by tony woollacott - Reprappers
Waiasaur, Sorry it has been a while since I have checked for responses to my post. Thanks for your input, I have in fact done exactly what you have suggested, and the design is looking great. One question I would like answered if possible is, what sort of speed do you run the extruder ie. how many mm/min on the plastic wire.by tony woollacott - Reprappers
The sort of frustration you are talking about is what I deal with on a daily basis. I have been a design engineer for over 30 years so am very used to things not doing what you may expect of them and so having to rethink etc. It is my first experience with open source and I am actually looking forward to the challenge. I think it is wonderful that people from all over the world can collaborate inby tony woollacott - Reprappers
Ah, the voice of sanity! Thanks for not giving up on me, I promise to try and be more pacient. I will give your link a go thanks again.by tony woollacott - Reprappers
I am starting to doubt my abilities????????? FreeCAD explains to create a folder, download, unzip preserving subdirrectories, this is something I have never come across in 20 years of working on computers. There is nothing in windows XP help about this, so I cannot figure it out. Secondly after unzipping I find that there is no .exe file. Now I dont know if this is anything to do with the preservby tony woollacott - Reprappers
Very helpful, thaks very much.by tony woollacott - Reprappers
Wood is the primary material I will be using. The goal is to build a Huxley, but what ever designs or advice Anyone can give will be greatly appreciated.by tony woollacott - Reprappers
Ok, had a look at these free CAD packages and they all seem to be able to write an stl file, but none of them can read one. It looks to me like stl is simply a file to make it easy to print, so I would imagine that is why it is in this format in the first place ie. 3D printing. How did you guys start? what did you do to get your first machine built?by tony woollacott - Reprappers
Thanks, I am sure that will be a good place to start.by tony woollacott - Reprappers
yes I have, but all I can find are things with .cfg and .stl which I cant open and therfore mean nothing to me.by tony woollacott - Reprappers
Hi number 6, You may be just the person to help me. I have just posted a request for help to get the plans for a machine and after looking at your blog, I can see that you have made a great job with your first machine. Could you help me please? Tonyby tony woollacott - Reprappers
Hello everyone, I am a newbie to RepRap and am hugely excited to get going. I want to build a Huxley, but am finding it very difficult to locate the plans. Could someone help me please, to get all the info required? I do all my work in Inventor, but if I could get any format that is accepted I would be most greatful, even pdf would be fine. Many thanks, Tonyby tony woollacott - Reprappers