The Death Star. A 3D printer newb story.

My bearings were trashed from being never good to begin with and me using them anyway lol

 

I also have to swap mine! Starting to make scratchy sounds for overuse and under maintenance.

 

Check your rods to be sure they don't have grooves worn in em from the bearings sliding rather than rolling. I caught mine just in time. Almost needed new rods too.

 

Will do! Might put a bit of grease on them until I buy the upgrades. My printers running pretty stock.

 

Ok. Will do. So far so good on the no name ones.

 

Finally getting somewhere. This was a test to see how much fine detail it could reproduce.

Printin the base stand for it now. Going to attempt first ABS print this afternoon.

 

ABS has highlighted every weak part lol. Forgot completely that I made new belt anchors from PLA. Has ha. Jokes on me. Of course they melted as well as my cable chain mounts lol. Otherwise it printed perfectly until the belts started missing teeth lol.

 

Going to replace the last belt holder with the crappy stock ones line enough to print ABS ones. Lol. All done but the x axis now. Just taking a break. Lol.

 

Well I am trying to get motivated to get back after it on this project. Pops surgery went well Tuesday. Cancer was benign.
Little brother has been delivered safely to the airport and I have recovered from the sleep deprivation of the last week.
However......
I have a new project to mess with now.
86 Honda Goldwing Aspencade SEi.
Traded my non running 94 Z28 Camero straight across for it. Needs tires and maintenance caught up. Got the rear tire delivery yesterday, as well as the new battery. Someone had put a big car battery in the sidebox . Front tire shipped today as well as the new fork seals and exhaust gaskets. New timing belts were just over $20 shipped and are recommended cheap insurance against bent valves ECT. Should be here Monday. Hope to be ready to ride it the tag office next week sometime.

 

Then finally get my Oklahoma endorsement.

 

look at that thing! How many boats can it haul?

 

Depends on what I build for a trailer.

 

It does have a trailer hitch. And should get much better milage than my pickup.

 

Got the first 6 pieces for the frame upgrade printed last night. Had to cut a hole in the top of the enclosure to vent some heat. It was getting up to 50c and higher in there. Melted my PLA parts that were nowhere near the hot end or heat bed. Lol. As long as I keep the temp below 45c it's doing fine. Hope to have the rest of the parts done in the next few days.

 

Started assembly of the new extruded aluminum frame. Parts printing as I type. Lol.

Keeping a close watch on the enclosure temps so I don't melt to PLA belt tensioners as the stock one is no more so if it fails it's over lol. Going to be printing out bare minimum needed parts to get it all over to ABS and aluminum.

 

Printing the right side z motor mount now. Left side looks good. Slow process lol.

 

I didnt look at this thread for a while but I did something like that with my printer too. I took 3 Ikea Lack tables ($10 each) and made an enclosure.
The printer is a prusa i3 mk3s

 

Still printing away at it. Lol. Got a ways to go before I can start swapping over the hardware and electronics.

 

Really want to get this project done so I can clean up the bench and start the refit on one DKM Scharnhorst and the completion of a second. Then I want to get back to the DKM Prinze Eugen 1/96th scale project.