Recent content by greendog

A 294 ✕ 294 Gridfinity base seems like a good test of a 300 ✕ 300 printer!

Haven't posted in half a week, but the printer is working! Now printing skirts, door/panel mounts, etc. Have PiCam2 hooked up and PITFT50 screen installed. Had a fair bit of problems with warping and detaching from bed until I added a mesh bed level before every print. Will try saving a hot bed...

After a few days of wiring, I'm really looking forward to getting this thing working, so I can switch to CanBus and umbilical!

A/B belts run, and starting on some electronics while waiting for StealthBurner/CW2/Dragon parts to print on my old printer.

Haven't been remembering to take many photos. Gantry installed and Z belts run. Need to square the gantry up and figure out what's next!

Z drives and idlers done. Slow but steady progress. The 5mm shafts for the Z drives seemed a little too large... had a really hard time getting the pulleys and bearings to slide onto the shafts, which also made it really hard to get their positions just right. Next will be the heat bed and A/B...

Managed to get a few things done the first day. Assembled frame and ensured it's perfectly square. Had to use dremel and hacksaw to trim a few mm off one of the DIN rails since there was no way to make the screw holes line up. Cleaned the linear rails and tried to smush some SuperLube into the...

FedEx arrived a day early! Here we go...

My Formbot 300mm kit arrives this Friday! I've been slowly printing functional parts on one of my two heavily modified Anycubic Mega-S printers with a super high-tech cardboard enclosure (see pics). Never tried ABS before but it's been really smooth sailing (eSun ABS+ Blue). The only issue I ran...