Hey everyone! I bought all the stuff for a Mendel a few years back and had a blast trying out new things with it. After a while, I decided to go with Greg's Accessible extruder and open x-carriage combo as well as a J-Head hot end. Unfortunately for me after trying to tweak the firmware to work with the new hotend for longer than I care to remember, I just kinda got too busy with other stuff anby bacree - For Sale
We use something like that where I work, except ours is 12ft long lol. The one we use is by a company called Faro. I'm not sure if that helps at all. Jago, the way my boss explains it, is that each joint measures the distance traveled and uses the values from each to determine where the tip is. You can take it from me, when they're calibrated, they are extremely accurate! Here's a clip showingby bacree - 3D Scanners, Book Scanners, and Optics
jcabrer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just find an old pair of roller blades, or a skate > board. By the way, they are 608 bearings. Oops, 608... It's that's what I meant to say lol You're a genius sir! 4 wheels, 8 bearingsby bacree - Reprappers
So I'm making an accessible wades extruder and I don't have any 605 bearings I was hoping that some kind person could possibly give me 3 or 4 if you have them? It would really help me out and I would be more than happy to print some stuff for you!.... nothing too crazy though please lol Anyhow, I hope someone has some spares laying around so I can retire my Adrains extruder.... It's getting prby bacree - Reprappers
Well, its broken up in a way so that each part will fit on the print bed. Like I mentioned earlier, as far as what I have completed thus far, only two parts need to be made to fit on the bed. As far as strength, I've done a test by printing out the outlines on regular paper, gluing them to 1/2in particle wood, and cutting them out and fitting them together. Leaving aside what is probably not thby bacree - General
Well, at this point I'm really just trying to scratch that itch lol. Once I build my more traditional Mendel and then print my design I can test it for all those things. Is there something in the way of a "crash test" or stress test procedure that I could run the design through to check for all of these potential faults? At this point, I'm waiting on my Gen6 electronics and then Ill buy the fullby bacree - General
Hmm, well it sounds like I'm taking a bit of a different approach than that lol. The way I went at it was more like a jigsaw puzzle or making dovetails in woodworking. This way you can do away with bolts altogether, well, mostly. Now, depending on how sturdy the whole thing is, I might end up putting a screw through each of the joints to stiffen it up even more. But that would only cost $5 foby bacree - General
.... I only ask because I've been working on something to that effect and want to know if there is anyone else out there working on the same thing lolby bacree - General
I was wondering if anyone knew of any designs for Mendel that aim to be able to print more part for itself and rely less on bolts, rods, etc? I tried to look through the development page but there is so much there and I didn't see any names that would suggest this was the goal.by bacree - General