Prusa Mendel experience at Sportvision

Hi, my name is Tim and along with a few other co-workers here at Sportvision we are building a Prusa Mendel.

Overview

I started our build by ordering a set of printed parts from a seller on eBay and a full hardware/electronics kit from mixshop.com.

I'm currently assembling the frame. Should have it all squared up and tightened by the end of the week.

Cold End

The kits I purchased included all of the plastic parts and hardware for Wade's Geared Extruder

Hot End

The hardware kit from mixshop.com includes parts to build this hot end.

Having read that this simple hot end design can fail rather quickly, I'm tossing around the following ideas:

1. Making a variation of this or this.

2. Getting a groovmount from MakerGear and using the other parts we have.

3. Getting a complete hot end kit from MakerGear or RepRap-USA.

RAMPS1.4 electronics are on order and should be here by the end of October.