Just finished my Reprap Mendel Prusa I3 rework 3D printer.
It's set up with a laser cut wood frame, all metal hot end (nylon tube insert) with modified wade style extruder using 3MM filament. Optical endstops, RAMPS 1.4 board with a cooling fan on it.
The Y-axis bearings are held with wood housings that I made on my SEIG mini mill.
Folgertech thermistor on the hot end with their temperature table added to the Marlin firmware.
For software, I'm currently using Slic3r & Pronterface. I have built Arduino circuits totally from scratch before (although this uses an ATMEGA board) and being a C programmer helps as well.
I can print PLA with it but the nylon insert will easily burn if the temperature gets to high easily with ABS.
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I didn't buy a kit. This was purchased a piece at a time over the past year off of Ebay and other websites.
It follows the i3 rework design pretty close.
It's set up with a laser cut wood frame, all metal hot end (nylon tube insert) with modified wade style extruder using 3MM filament. Optical endstops, RAMPS 1.4 board with a cooling fan on it.
The Y-axis bearings are held with wood housings that I made on my SEIG mini mill.
Folgertech thermistor on the hot end with their temperature table added to the Marlin firmware.
For software, I'm currently using Slic3r & Pronterface. I have built Arduino circuits totally from scratch before (although this uses an ATMEGA board) and being a C programmer helps as well.
I can print PLA with it but the nylon insert will easily burn if the temperature gets to high easily with ABS.
I didn't buy a kit. This was purchased a piece at a time over the past year off of Ebay and other websites.
It follows the i3 rework design pretty close.
