3d printers for making stuff for the RV

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.

Yep, you're limited only by your imagination and built plate dimensions

2112 wrote:
Yep, you're limited only by your imagination and built plate dimensions

yea, looking to get a bigger printer soon, would like to be up in 400x400 or larger range.

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

LittleBill wrote:

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.

tell me about it, I am trying to learn fusion 360 right now but it has been over 30 years since I even looked at cad haha.. I just want to make a stupis suport for the back of my power center in the camper... oh well Ill have it designed before long I just have to pull it and get some measurments now that its starting to warm up.

Steve

StirCrazy wrote:

LittleBill wrote:

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.

tell me about it, I am trying to learn fusion 360 right now but it has been over 30 years since I even looked at cad haha.. I just want to make a stupis suport for the back of my power center in the camper... oh well Ill have it designed before long I just have to pull it and get some measurments now that its starting to warm up.

Steve

use this tutorial, never designed in my life. there are 3 tutorials. I made the item I sell on amazon after following along.

if the design is real simple. Thinkercad is easier.

if your not interested at all. pm me, and I can design it from measurements for a fee. GL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5bc9c3S12g&t=8s

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.

IAMICHABOD wrote:
I saw This Post awhile back,I sure wish I could get one of these.:B

pm. I will make and print and ship for a fee. pm me.

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

StirCrazy wrote:

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 benefits other than just being built for faster printing? I am looking at that or RepRap

I have read Klipper is faster and reduces ringing, you can add a 3 point gyro as well, to help deal with resonance.

I do UBL with a 15x15 mesh build. on my plate that's about 127 points.

that said I did 100 prints without a level, then did one for giggles. It was barely off. BLtouch was huge for me, my printer uses a limit switch for z, which is not accurate enough, i was always playing with live z. since the bl touch. i haven't touch it once.