mxk wrote:Most excellent! Would you share your STl files, or are you planning to post them on Thingiverse?
I would build the spacer for the idler pulley right into the part too.
The plate for the Y motor and the idler pulley can't be too thick or the belt will ride too high to get under the carriages.
butterfingers wrote:This is very cool, and as well as that should hopefully put to rest some of the more snippy comments I've seen in the reprap IRC channel...
butterfingers wrote:This is very cool, and as well as that should hopefully put to rest some of the more snippy comments I've seen in the reprap IRC channel...
crispyfry wrote:IMHO, and I can only speak for myself, purposefully making a tool worse (less functional, harder to build, harder to maintain) just for the sake of pursuing some ideal of self-manufacturability is insane. The faster RepRap makes printers that are useful tools for people instead of cantankerous machines that require constant attention, the faster it will be adopted and the faster it will advance to the point of self-reproducability.
Also IMHO, the fixation on threaded-rod frames and smooth rod running surfaces is starting to hold the RepRap project back. You just can't scale that kind of design - an increase in frame dimensions requires going to a thicker sized rod, which sends cost and weight through the roof.
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