Recent content by sbman

Making progress on my Trident build. I decided to extend it to 350 vertical and use ballscrews to drive the Z axis instead of acme threads. This necessitated redesign of the mounts for the z motors and the related ballscrew hardware. I decided to offset the motor mount and use closed loop...

I've discovered that the average 2020 profile ordered from Amazon or Aliexpress have a 5mm hole in the center of the profile which is too large to tap M5 threads. The only extrusions I can find that have a small enough hole in the center to tap M5 are very expensive. I'm looking at using M6...

I appreciate the backstory on the Dragon. After looking at the official Stealthburner STLs and the choices available I ordered a Chube Compact. It ticked all the boxes, aside from it being a brand new design, but Luke's Lab looks like a good company that builds great products, at least based on...

I prefer good parts over speed as well. It seems like anything I use will perform at least as well as the printer I have now. The dragon hotend looks like a great option I like the V6 compatible nozzles, non structural heatbreak, one handed nozzle changes, and copper heatsink. This would be...

That makes sense. I think I'll start with the stealthburner and see how it does. Once I start printing abs I may not want pla much anymore. Just have to pick a hotend for it.

What hotend do you recommend? From the research I've done since you posted this, I am kind of thinking the Stealthburner toolhead isn't necessarily for me. I want to be able to print both PLA and ABS effectively and from what I've read it looks like the Stealthburner doesn't have adequate part...

For the printed parts, I may know someone at work that can print ABS, or I'll look into PIF. I've got an Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro but trying to do ABS on it would be a stretch. I did run the configurator and saw the length of the extrusions there for a 350 size. That doesn't help much with making...

I've decided to build a Trident at it's max size of 350mm. Doing it self source and fabbing as much as I reasonably can because I enjoy that sort of thing. I've built CNC machines before this is just the first 3D printer I've done. The plan is to keep it mostly stock, but with a USB toolhead...