Recent content by christopher

does your box have a square hole in the back, about 6" x 6", that may have a cover and/or also an power inlet, and a place where a small lamp came out of? I you have that hole, and its covered, remove the cover and have a peek in that way. I have removed and stripped and repainted my tambour...

FIFTY BUCKS!! Wow - I am wicked jealous! ;)

Cool! We'll need pictures! What would probably work best would be UHMW PE tape on the channel surfaces where the tambour touches it. Any kind of grease with get messy fast I think. Thinking about mine when I took it all apart, it didn't look like it had ever been greased. The paint was worn...

Harley owner maybe?

My take of this printer from as close as I could get, (aka interwebs), is that it's very well engineered and made. For what it is, $1500 seems like a bargain. Nice score!

...all of my vices have proven to be very expensive...

unlike a lot of RepRap-style printers, this one has a _lot_ of molded plastic parts, and all the tooling for that was a big investment for them. That adds a lot to the cost to produce it. Looks very slick, and they seemed to solve a lot of the issues elegantly.

(looks like my fridge beer drawer ;) )

The AMS is not totally unlike these designs: https://coprint3d.com/ https://blog.prusa3d.com/multi-material-upgrade-2-0-is-here_8700/

I went to their site and checked it out. Very sophisticated and interesting. But they are definitely into vendor lock-in, and I can dig that, they need to make money for their efforts. Reminds me of Apple in that regard, and no doubt they have studied Apple's playbook. So the AMS houses four...

My drill press (with the schnozzle) is a restored '49 Delta. I also got a lead counter weight and some pulleys, and that made it so the table is essentially weightless when moving it up or down. The lead weight (actually a Ye Olde style window weight) I got here: https://nathantrotter.com...

I found the STL, and it was 96MB! I must have had the resolution jacked way up to make it as smooth as possible. Instead of posting that, here is the original solidworks file, plus a couple exports of different formats that are fairly common for other cad packages too. All of these combined are...

we're all gonna say no now, then end up having to for various reasons. it's gonna ****.

Here's a spherically articulating schnozzle I made in a single go with a very tiny gap between the parts. it printed fine and with a slight twist broke free and now rotates freely. When the vacuum is off, it falls slack, but when on it can be positioned anywhere it can aim and stays there. I can...

The issue I run into with the cadmouse, is if I scroll fast, I end up pushing the wheel down accidentally. This is actually a button, and it starts the auto-scroll feature, which needs to have the wheel 'clicked' again to turn off.