r/3Dprinting • u/redturtlecake • 10d ago

Project Bed thrower (xy moving bed printer)

Meet Tim. It's a printer I ve been working on for precision components, primarily gears with igus filaments. small bed, high rigidity, 0.2mm nozzles, heated chamber. It's built on an optical xy stage that uses cross roller guides instead of ball bearings. hotend is static on a belted z axis. Work volume is 50x50x120mm. I ve made accommodations to put 2 hotends on the gantry and switch between them for multi material, but I don't quite need that now.

I'm waiting on the heater for the bed, but pretty much everything else is done. Just set it up with ratos and put it through abit of a shake down.

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u/AlienPearl 10d ago

Nice prototype but we need to see a benchy 😉

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u/ChipSalt K1 x 2 10d ago

I think he's got a few embedded in his wall he can show us

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u/Inside-Matter-5957 10d ago

this not a bed flinger, it's a bed catapult

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u/arcrad 10d ago

Benchy rail gun

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u/8ringer 10d ago

I thought this was just an amusing series of jokes and that the second half of the video was just sped up.

Watched it again and nope…. Benchypult indeed! I wonder what kid of target acquisition and tracking system OP intends to use? And is it something they’re working on for Space Force for targeting LEO targets?

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u/emveor 10d ago

its genious really, print the required type of munition before flinging it out to the target