3d printers for making stuff for the RV

LittleBill wrote:

StirCrazy wrote:

LittleBill wrote:

2112 wrote:

LittleBill wrote:
mine broke today, having withdrawal issues since parts won't be here till monday.

Ouch. What broke?

Mine is 6 years old without issue other than early on the X axis belt pulley slipping on the stepper shaft, causing X shift. The tiny set screws kept backing out. A dab of VC3 took care of that but I doubt I'll ever get them back out.

extruder tensioning arm, known issue on mine, also have replaced fans a couple times (going to ball bearing) and a z limit switch issue.

is what it is i guess. printer has about 500 hours on it.


the real amazement is not the printer, but once you can design, the world it opens up, is crazy.

I also design for money and have one product on amazon now, and soon to add more.

I ordered the BMG clone from diamondlabs in antisapation of that going on mine. so far I have put the dual Z screw kit in, added a bl touch, doing the extruder and when I can find a raspberry pi in stock I am going to add octiprint and change to liniear rails. I am also starting to source parts to build a voron 2.4 and add a second printer.

Steve

Mine is not modified much, spring, capricon, a modified extruder guide for TPU, and bl touch, and ubl with jyers.

It prints amazing. I have 0 reason to change anything at this point.

IDK if I want to go full custom like a voron, I tried octoprint, its nice, but surprisingly i print predominantly from the SD card.

if your going with a pi, look at klipper.

ya I looked up the most comon issues with the printer I ordered. so because of the large beed width the arm tends to float a little when bening driven on the z axis and the dual axis kit eleminited this. for 50 bucks a no brainer. Mine came with the Capricon, the good bed springs but still had the single drive plastic extruder that are so famous on cracking. the BL touch I wanted just because it works so good. I have done 20 prints now with out even caring about my bed leveling. I still check it to make sure it hasn't realy moved much and I will relevel it if it does, but now I am thinking of solid mounting it with alumium spacers and shims.

Octprint I want one for conveniance, I am sitting upstairs on my laptop and my printer is down stairs so with that I can just send a print to it and check in on the laptop once and a while. plus there are some nice plugin features for it.

does Klipper have many benifits other than just being built for faster printing? I am looking at that or RepRap