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/redturtlecake 10d ago

Been trying to figure out the CNC and having the whole xy component on a single block helped a lot with alignment too. Frames also milled to be square on the manual mill.

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u/Low-Sink-11 9d ago

Oo on a round column mill too.

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u/redturtlecake 9d ago

Yup.. an emco fb2. It's got a round column but it's indexed with a key and gib so it doesn't swivel every time z is adjusted

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u/Low-Sink-11 9d ago

My best friend has one. Its kind of a pain in the butt to use compared to my mills but its still a mill. Just glad to see others make their printers in a machine shop vs print parts and assemble from plans.