Road to Voron

[Interslice200]

Hi all. New to the forum here.
I recently got a free 3d printer, or two, to be precise, from a friend, that I have been slowly modifying to hopefully get to the standard needed to print a 2.4 350x.

Current spec:
Monoprice Maker select V2.1 (Wanhoa I3 duplicator clone)
Usual Z brace mod, with custom rear brace.
Larger bearings on y carriage. 10 euro
Solid mounted stock y carriage.
Glass 'middle bed' - 20 euro
Steel/PEI magnetic build surface. 20 Euro
All metal Hotend. 35 euro
Extruder cold end fan shroud.
MOSFET swiched heater bed - 10 euro
Chopped down Repetier firmware "1.0" on the stock Melzi. (I had Klipper on it initially but it kept loosing connection.10 -15 different solutions didn't work. Marlin scrambled the LCD)
Have an SKR E3 mini coming next week. 35 euro

Hoping not to put any more money into it and save for the VORON from here...!!! 130 quid down as it is!
The printer came 2 very old rolls of PLA. They were enough to get the trouble shooting ball rolling.

Leveling the taco bed is the biggest issue with it. 6 hours over the last 2 days has it ok-ish.

 

[Interslice200]

Early days, complete with wrecked build surface and broken spool. One of the first prints was an extension for the spool holder to properly hold a 1kg roll.

The printer as it sits now, moved to shed

ABS printing some of the final upgrades. Will probably redo some of the PLA bits too. The secret to leveling it can be seen here. A bull clip at both high corners of the taco, to un-taco the hotplate.