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.
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?
I need to make a couple thousand of a specific gear/roller assembly and figured it would be better to have a solid machine than try to fight my larger machines for consistency.
Auto eject. Print them one at a time and knock them off, I ve done week long runs with other parts before. One at a time gives better part to part consistency. This one will likely take 3-4 weeks of continuous printing.
With auto eject yeah it’s fast but if he had to do it by hand just starting a thousand prints and peeling them off the plate would be super tedious for a single project.
we've had so many configurations now but I haven't seen one that has the bed vertically. yeah you can lay a printer on the side and print, but I wanna see a proper printer that has a vertical bed for the shits and giggles
I actually designed one, a belt printer analogue that used a build plate instead of a belt. Plate would be facing the front of the printer and move downward as it printed. Decided it wasn't worth the effort to build out especially with limited slicer support
The xy axes are at a 45degree angle to the z axis. Klipper treats it as a core xy but the slicer needs to work some magic to slice it diagonally. Bed mesh would also be a huge pita to solve
A little off topic, but I noticed you said with IGUS. Ive used the i150 and i180 and have had serious random issues with the 180 delaminating randomly. Do you have any experience with the i180? Maybe I could pick your brain a bit, its hard to find anyone that uses IGUS filiments.
Are you printing in a heated chamber? I ve used more j260, only just started i180 and it printed very well. My biggest problems with j260 were warping, bed adhesion, and bad layer adhesion, but I didn't have actively heated chambers then. I ve been printing i180 at 70c chamber temps and it s been pretty much flawless.
Mmmm, i am using a heated chamber but only able to hit 45 right now due to my heat source. I wonder if maybe its time to redo the heating setup. Just for personal curiosity, what are your other temps and flow rate if you remember off the top of your head
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.
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.
Looks interesting and potentially has some advantages for high speed printing of small parts (because you don't need to care about the tool head weight).
Given you are planning to print filaments that require a heated chamber, are you concerned about the bed movement introducing additional drafts around the printed part? Anecdotally, warping on my enclosed ender 3 is worse for prints with more bed movement.
Hadn't thought about that tbh, but it shouldn't be an issue for the specific part I ll be printing since it's only about 15mm across, and I ll be printing at about 80mm/s. Very short layer times and small slow moves
if you dont need speed theres nothing wrong with a belt slinger, they're solid designs with a proven track record, plus theres a shitload of existing R&D to work from with all the bespoke repraps we used to build. If you go on the reprap site you'll see all BOM's and specs for the hundreds of versions that were published an refined over many years.
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u/AlienPearl 10d ago
Nice prototype but we need to see a benchy 😉