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Re: Belts pitch: 2 or 3 mm ? Your opinion ? - 3 years ago

is this a trick question...2

by MechaBits - CoreXY Machines

Re: E3D V6 clone quality ? - 3 years ago

Looks like the UK is slapping 20% on all purchases on ebay from other countries(but China's not in the EU)...regardless of any 10 or 15 quid item limit...Them damn Chinese trying to sell us cheap goods...we can't have that we must make everything expensive for our Citizens again! bbbbut Minister your already charging them top dollar for everything, they will not stand for it... tuff let them eat

by MechaBits - General

Re: Advantages of integrated marketing: What are the benefits of doing integrated marketing? - 3 years ago

alexa... tell me all about marketing

by MechaBits - General

Re: Trampling the axis rods? - 4 years ago

They seek him here, they seek him there Those reprappers seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Aamcle I guess the Journey is better than the destination, 2 years on the forum and not one pic...the material from a cube can probably make 3 Cartesians....so i'll be back in 6 years to see your progress.

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: Revived a Dremel 3D20... Duet 2 Wifi, PanelDue, kinematic bed, hot swap PCB - 4 years ago

2 springs at the front look like they would tilt the bed clamp, what stops that the glass sandwich?

by MechaBits - General

Re: Trampling the axis rods? - 4 years ago

maybe a pic of your setup would get more suggestions

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: 3D Concrete House Printing - 4 years ago

Bamboo or hemp fibers if you can get em.

by MechaBits - General

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

Also needed another mount for the IPIX lens

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: 3D Concrete House Printing - 4 years ago

A Bird can make a nest in one or two days, a rat in a day, but it may take a human 30 years... Land is a problem, cheap materials another problem, if possible making a house out of pre-cast blocks of whatever material probably make the most sense, as it's readily available and you could make moulds & control curing better, if you really wanted you could try printing them....but then introdu

by MechaBits - General

Re: Help Needed - Custom Built 3d Printer - Finally Printing - 4 years ago

Some people are just more adept at giving advice guidance(pause for thought) with fewer words, some like go through all the steps, some like to make the person think a bit harder, who here doesnt like Victor Meldrew, I've never watched that program wondering why he's in a mood or Rich Hall he's another grumpy funny guy(not sure this stuff works good in text form), I prefer direct / curt than suga

by MechaBits - General

Re: Help Needed - Custom Built 3d Printer - Finally Printing - 4 years ago

curmudgeon

by MechaBits - General

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

Printing Printer Parts on hold while I plug a few other holes in the shooting armory, manual focus is a pain, dual focus a bigger pain, & close focus with anamorphics another challenge. Cinelux closest focus is apparently 3 meters and the smaller Ultrastar about 1.2m, I have two Cinelux anamorphics but one is set at infinity and needs to be fixed there, as I I have the

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: Looking for Misumi 30 (6 Series) T-Nuts - 4 years ago

Do you want drop in ones or the ones you have to insert from end?

by MechaBits - General

Re: Help Needed - Custom Built 3d Printer - 4 years ago

Presume you will be using glass? heatbed could do with a 180 flip.

by MechaBits - General

Re: Troubleshooting ramps 1.4 - 4 years ago

That is the way to do it...upload sketch to bare arduino, then add the ramps, not while plugged in....turning psu on after usb connection is fine, if not the best way too do it, but it works both ways. I had a little issue with my ramps setup last week, it was a bit of a pain to get every axis moving, in the end most of the issue was wrong cable on Z motor, changed that driver, and rewired the Y

by MechaBits - Reprappers

Re: Thingiverse taking it's last breath? - 4 years ago

Maybe they are just trying to get the site to be more like their printers

by MechaBits - General

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

Pondering Phase...Printer almost complete, I need to print a part cooler but don't want to print just one part...pondering for days, when I decided on a 90x90x20 interface plate to raise & mount the bed at the required height...though that was going to triple the print time...then I chopped it down to 50mm wide...before realizing I didnt even need to print anything & could do it bette

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: What is the name of this cartesian / hbot hybrid kinematics? - 4 years ago

much better if you rotate the arrangement 90 degrees

by MechaBits - Mechanics

Re: Wall Delta Printer - 4 years ago

I was thinking the same but for a foldable cantilevered arm, but also with core xy rig on the ceiling(or cut a hole in bedroom floor, not easy in a single storey ), or a really light axis/actuator/telescopic arm hanging from the H bar, though have to think long & hard about how big the bed could be....2m( or my 670mm LWF42) x200mmx200mm is not a volume I need, a rocket to the moon? 3D printe

by MechaBits - Reprappers

Re: Patents - 4 years ago

this is what happens when people cocoon themselves away for too long

by MechaBits - General

Re: Patents - 4 years ago

I have an idea....let's get the government involved....not

by MechaBits - General

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

Looked out the window and saw this bright disk in the sky...what is that mystical orb... I thought i'd show it to the printer, but I think this dark beast is like myself a creature of the night...the light...it burns....pla+ I think it's time to get the last rays of summer or stay in & polish those bearings

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: A 3d-model worth the challenge of FDM printers - 4 years ago

3d stacked is that the same as non planar?

by MechaBits - General

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

Hot off the Presstidigitizer, bustin out some new shapes & some old. New left Z Base Part 1, bottom part 2 will be the last part needed, and a smaller Z base for the right side, right side needed an extra part for the motor but decided to use the parts from the left side for now to save time on printing but will probably update it at some point, so take a look at the previous beauty bef

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

The first printer was made homeless by a younger sleeker upstart, so I found a plinth for Numero Uno to stand on, but it throws up a dilemma of which direction to take the new parts. Do I split the 4 rod Z column and have 2 either end of gantry(2 dif' directions) or keep the 4 and have 2 at other end, or ditch the 2 at the end and use a 12mm rod. Top bracing the rods would be tricky for maybe a

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: How does everyone snug their linear bearings without them binding with the rails? - 4 years ago

Is it a problem on all axis, maybe the bolts need to be tightened in diagonal pairs, maybe loosen(or check) rails.

by MechaBits - General

Re: 'Grip Surface' of Replicator Plus? - 4 years ago

Ah well now you got me curious....They probably took some well known material changed a molecule and then patented it, or just convinced some pen pusher they did it first.

by MechaBits - Reprappers

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

Now remember kids always return printer to Zero before turning off... Unless daddy bought or built a real smart one. It was all on course to be a smooth print, maybe i should have spent more time re leveling, first few perim's where loose so stopped a couple of times, but also this filaments min temp is 205 I have it on 206, not done any heat tests or altered settings(for a few years) but on th

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: MechaBits KraftWerk'r - 4 years ago

PLA+ first print on 3m tape, no change in settings(which I was dreading changing FW as my max temps set at 210), came off without peeling tape, slight curl on the thin part which I was expecting because of the chamfers but it slid into place perfect, model not off thingverse, I had a look at a few but didnt even dl one for size, maybe I should have because shutter button isnt in perfect positio

by MechaBits - Extruded Aluminum Frames

Re: 'Grip Surface' of Replicator Plus? - 4 years ago

Have you had no luck with Blue painters tape & elnet? My first roll lasted quite a while, many times being able to reuse as it hadnt torn getting part off. Though that roll ran out recently and I wasnt so lucky with the second roll at £4, I must have missed the Clean Peel(not very sticky) in the listing, really cheap n nasty thin paper that would wrinkle when wet with spray and would lift wit

by MechaBits - Reprappers