Recent content by Maas101

Things have moved on a bit.. The back panel was made with another piece of 2mm stainless which is then backed by a piece of 12.5mm tile backer insulation board to keep the heat in. To stand the side panels away from the frame and clear the MGN 12 carriages I went for the chamfered cube look...

Thanks, I found that yesterday and had a play with it, it told me I was in excellent mechanical health :ROFLMAO: I'm not sure there's anything to do with the belts but again I'm a newb to this.

It's nowhere near complete, I still have to fit the enclosure panels and there's hundreds of little jobs to do, sort out the extraction, arrange the umbilical and filament paths and entry etc. etc. However as a test to see if there were any mechanical issues that needed sorting I ran some...

Just drag and drop your images into your post and they'll upload and show (at least that's what I do)

It's now assembled into a 'minimum viable configuration' i.e. enough to start printing but an awful lot to do before it's finished. Are these things ever finished? Always another mod to try :) The base panel is cut from some 2mm stainless steel sheet I had in the garage in the 'it'll come in...

This weekend I managed to get some time to cut down the rails for the frame and start some assembly. Trued up the frame is absolutely square corner to corner to the limit that I can measure. The 2040 rails seem to add a huge amount of rigidity and TBH although the change was dictated by...

I've had a printer for 10+ years. It started life as an Anet A8 and over the years has had the full frankenstein treatment, like a vintage car if something breaks you bodge it with 'something that works' and keep going. Recently though my titan extruder gave up the ghost along with a few other...