ReuseDaBox
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Overview
The thought occurred to me yesterday, after discussing the possible design and construction of a 3D printer with a colleague at work who already owns one which he built from a kit. To each his own of course, but being a diehard engineer, I figure that building a RepStrap would be way more fun, and much more of a learning experience. Looking around this wiki it seemed a WolfStrap would be the most reuseable way to go, since I have an old TV cabinet in my garden shed which forms a perfect sturdy wooden frame for what I wish to create. On top of that, it already holds at least four drawer guides which can be reused for the various translation movements!
Phase 1: making the cabinet a solid base
The base of this design can be just about any rectangular cabinet, that you deem will provide sufficient work volume. I chose an old TV cabinet from the days that TV's were still massive beasts which required superhuman strength to lift, or cooperation of two humans like in Dire Strait's awesome hit...
The turntable on the top unfortunately did not have sufficient rigidity in its sliders to serve for the motion train of the extruder head, but the board halfway did have good supports. So I removed the top, the backside and the middle shelf. By cutting a rounded rectangle in the hind board, it maintained its support capacity, and screwed back in that gave the cabinet its left to right sturdiness again.
My board already had slide guides, but if yours doesn't, you could just make it a bit less wide and mount glider guides you have lying around, or can acquire from a local DIY store. My effort in making this design however is to keep the spirit of RepRap, in reusing as much as possible. (even the turntable might go to a friend wanting to make solar panels turn to the sun...
