I got my 3D printer!!!

[RobbyMaQ]

4000mm

That's 157"?

 

[warthog]

I would like one of these someday. I have a few ideas I want to prototype and see if they'd be worth developing. I think I will save for one.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Did you have any 3D design knowledge? My limiting factor is software knowledge

 

[sepe]

Wait, so what you're saying is you could print a 4000mm sammich?

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

Did you have any 3D design knowledge? My limiting factor is software knowledge

No not really any at all.

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

Wait, so what you're saying is you could print a 4000mm sammich?

lol no that's the scanner.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

lol no that's the scanner.

Oooops. sorry i missed that part when verifying the size!

 

[Caleb]

Ooo...I want one...and a CNC mill...and a CNC lathe... and a CNC plasma cutter..and...

Just curious, how much does that set you back?

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

Ooo...I want one...and a CNC mill...and a CNC lathe... and a CNC plasma cutter..and...

Just curious, how much does that set you back?

About 700 bucks.

 

[Caleb]

About 700 bucks.

Not bad at all, what's the max size you can print? The printing medium expensive?

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

10 x 10 x 8 inches and about 30 bucks for 2.3lbs of plastic.

 

[Dosproduction]

Thats awesome. How strong is the plastic you use? And can it use other mediums. Can you print tools and stuff? The price does not seem to unreasonable. Is there particular things you had in mind to make. Sorry for all the questions but these things are pretty bad mamajamaS

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

I can use ABS and PLA plastic there has been testing with a Nylon filament as well as a wood filament. I can pretty much print anything... there is a cool website called www.thingiverse.com where people upload designs and you can pretty much download and print out anything there I've been doing so custom things at the moment while etill trying to figure out everything as I'm pretty new to this stuff... lol

 

[Dosproduction]

Nice. Are those plastics strong like ar lower strong

 

[hoosierdoc]

I have seen things printed in nylon that are phenomenal. I saw an iphone case that had about 9 interlocking gears that all connected and spun together as gears should when one spins. The entire thing was printed on the nylon printer as one item. Freaking awesome.

 

[Caleb]

Any videos? I'm getting ideas...

 

[hoosierdoc]

Can you post some pictures with what things look like coming off printer? How do you "clean them up" ?

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

For ABS you can use acetone vapor to clean it and give a more "finished" look. I pretty much just got mine running good and started making stuff the last week or so. It's not a perfect technology and I've had may share of issues.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

Following up on this, as I'm debating one...

Now that it's been a while, do you have any pro's or con's to this particular model? What would you do differently next time around?