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Printrbot in the Box |
The exciting thing to me about this printer is the quality of parts that are achievable with these pretty inexpensive devices (the big unknown to me right now is how much calibration and tuning is required to get to that level). I was really impressed with the quality of the RepRapp'd parts that Rockett got for his Prusa Mendel printer. These Printrbot parts are at a similar level. Just for fun and out of my idle curiosity, a while back I requested a sample part from Stratasys, and these parts seem to be of equivalent quality as far as I can tell with my Mk-I eye-ball.
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Printrbot FDM Parts |
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Stratasys FDM Parts |
Watch the mailing list and the meetup for a build event announcement. We'd like to get plenty of folks involved so we can do a proper job of documenting our build.
Update: We (Joe, Rockett, Dan and I) got the first plastic squeezed at an open house. It's supposed to be a 20mm cube. Our x-axis is slipping. One of the optional steps I skipped was 'flatting' the shafts on our stepper motors to give the set screws a better interface: do it! NOT OPTIONAL.
Joe and I got through build video's 1-8 this afternoon. I didn't have any kapton tape for the thermistor; we also need a 6x6 inch piece of glass to finish up the build platform.
ReplyDeleteGot through build videos 8-14; missing a piece needed to finish; most likely will order custom print from fabbr.com
ReplyDeleteGot missing parts from fabbr; missing two 6-32 nuts! We only had metric in the space...
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All the nuts and bolts are done; ready to hook up the electronics and load software.
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ReplyDeletePrintrbot Getting Started Guide
STL to Gcode: Slic3r
Printrun: pronterface, pronsole, printcore
Install for dependencies:
yum install pyserial wxPython pyglet
Using Slic3r with Printrun:
How can I integrae Slic3r with Printrun?
Slic3r settings:
150x150mm bed size
0.5mm nozzle diameter
3mm filament diameter
210 C extrusion temperature
70 C bed temperature
195 mm/s travel speed
0.35 bottom layer speed ratio
80 mm/s infill
70 mm/s solid infill
50 mms/s top solid infill
2 skirt loops
"You have very good copy protection... you wrote it in Perl." -- Josef Prusa
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On our first print / calibration attempt we found the bed is not very parallel with the x/y axes. Here's a good fix: using small pieces of flexible tubing as adjustable shims for the print bed.
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