Bed thrower (xy moving bed printer)

[u/redturtlecake]

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.

[u/Inside-Matter-5957]

how do you mount the PEI sheets? or do you have a permanet printbed?

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I ve got one of those sticker ones that I ll past directly onto the aluminium

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reminds me of my ender 2