Another 3d Printed Stir Plate - 80mm PC Fan & PWM Controller - Link to Files

[thehebs]

I'm cheating. I have Haas vf3's at work at my disposal. I really want to make a mill out of a drill press, but one project at a time. And I still need to get my prusa i3 working again before I even think about that. Haven't reassembled it after I moved 3 months ago.

Cool, yea I made a manual mill out of a cheap harbor freight x-y vise on my drill press. Its pretty limited on what it can do though.

 

[treacheroustexan]

I'm going to finally wire this up tonight! I'l post pictures of the final result. If it works, I'l test the stir plate on a 14% stout starter!!

 

[seabass07]

Cool, yea I made a manual mill out of a cheap harbor freight x-y vise on my drill press. Its pretty limited on what it can do though.

That's an interesting idea. What's lacking? Range of motion and rigidity?

 

[treacheroustexan]

Almost done. Just have to wait until tomorrow to get a small screw driver at work. I don't have one at home that's small enough to finish wiring

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[thehebs]

That's an interesting idea. What's lacking? Range of motion and rigidity?

Yea exactly. It worked well enough to cut little rectangular windows in enclosures and what not, but I wouldnt rely on any tolerances.

 

[treacheroustexan]

So due to the warping I couldn't get one of the m3 bolts in and the front plate doesn't look the prettiest. Other than that, no complaints!! It was very cheap to print. It works great so I'm happy with it.

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[thehebs]

Built a new printer Anyone need anything printed? PM ME

Build thread: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?178,714397

 

[treacheroustexan]

Built a new printer Anyone need anything printed? PM ME

Build thread: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?178,714397

Beautiful! You could build me one and ship it to me

 

[boasist]

Awesome thehebs, I just picked up the prusa i3 mk2 kit, it arrives on Friday!

Really, really cool build thread, I would be printing the cosmowenman statues all day on that bad boy!

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

I have a Ultimaker 2 + and a Stratasys (older model) at work that I have access to.

I see that I can pick up a pursa i3 for under $200, may grab one for the house.

 

[LBussy]

I wish there was a "3D Printers for Dummies" capable printer that was in my price range. I don't want to engineer a printer, I want to print parts. I think the "price of entry" WRT learning the technology is still a little too steep for me. Maybe I'm just not reading the right information.

 

[thehebs]

Awesome thehebs, I just picked up the prusa i3 mk2 kit, it arrives on Friday!

Really, really cool build thread, I would be printing the cosmowenman statues all day on that bad boy!

Nice. I am actually toying around with the idea of selling my i3 to get the mk2, or possibly getting the mk2 upgrade kit and trying to make it work with my i3.

 

[thehebs]

I have a Ultimaker 2 + and a Stratasys (older model) at work that I have access to.

I see that I can pick up a pursa i3 for under $200, may grab one for the house.

Nice, ultimakers are nice machines. You can get i3 kits for 200, but most are pretty terrible. If I wanted to get a cheap i3 or something I would get the wanhao duplicator i3, or if I had the money, id get an i3 mk2.

 

[thehebs]

I wish there was a "3D Printers for Dummies" capable printer that was in my price range. I don't want to engineer a printer, I want to print parts. I think the "price of entry" WRT learning the technology is still a little too steep for me. Maybe I'm just not reading the right information.

There is most definitely a learning curve... It takes quite a bit of trial and error and googling to figure out all the little issues etc... The i3 mk2 is probably the closest thing to an affordable plug and play solution, but its 699 and you have to build it, or 899 built.

 

[treacheroustexan]

I wish there was a "3D Printers for Dummies" capable printer that was in my price range. I don't want to engineer a printer, I want to print parts. I think the "price of entry" WRT learning the technology is still a little too steep for me. Maybe I'm just not reading the right information.

Look at the 101hero. It's a $100 printer that just started shipping. It's a smaller print bed but it comes mostly assembled. I think it would be good to get started. I will be purchasing one.

 

[LBussy]

Look at the 101hero. It's a $100 printer that just started shipping. It's a smaller print bed but it comes mostly assembled. I think it would be good to get started. I will be purchasing one.

Can't seem to figure out what size it will print.

ETA: Found it:

Dimensions: Print height: 100mm (3.93&#8243, Base Print Area: φ150mm (5.9&#8243

 

[treacheroustexan]

Can;t seem to figure out what size it will print.

It's only like 4 inches tall. Can't remember the rest.

 

[allanmorgan]

Pretty sweet stir plate. I'm thinking about building one out, but not with a 3D printer.

Care to share what size all the holes are that were "cut" into the box?

Thanks!

 

[JimmyC-BYOB]

Sweet! nicely done!

 

[BigFloppy]

Look at the 101hero. It's a $100 printer that just started shipping. It's a smaller print bed but it comes mostly assembled. I think it would be good to get started. I will be purchasing one.

Couldn't help myself, I just bought one of these....

 

[thehebs]

Pretty sweet stir plate. I'm thinking about building one out, but not with a 3D printer.

Care to share what size all the holes are that were "cut" into the box?

Thanks!

Install sketchup then click the link to the files for the stir plate and download the .skp files. Use the ruler tool and it will tell you everything you need to know.

 

[LBussy]

Okay I gave in and ordered the Prusa MK2. This will be the most expensive stir plate EVER!

 

[thehebs]

Okay I gave in and ordered the Prusa MK2. This will be the most expensive stir plate EVER!

Hahaha. Nice man. You will love that machine. There will still be a slight learning curve, but Joseph Prusa and his team have done everything they can to make that printer one of the easiest to use, and crank out extremely nice prints with. They have done a great deal of testing etc... and setup nice slic3r profiles that fit the printer really well.

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

I couldn't think of anything to ask for Christmas, so I ordered a cheap i3 kit from eBay. I think it was $200.

I cannot wait to get it in, will have to wait until Christmas, so I can tinker with it. I am not expecting A grade prints, but believe that I can get it to a state where it prints decent.

I ordered a E3D V6 hotend and am going to print and assemble the cold end feed mechanism.

I have not even gotten it in yet and have a list of upgrades already. With all the extra parts I have laying around, I should not have to purchase much, if anything else.

 

[LBussy]

I couldn't think of anything to ask for Christmas, so I ordered a cheap i3 kit from eBay. I think it was $200.

I could ... so she bought me a 3D printer.

Congrats! We should have a 3D Printer thread for kicks.

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

I could ... so she bought me a 3D printer.

Congrats! We should have a 3D Printer thread for kicks.

Done!

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=596124

 

[boasist]

I could ... so she bought me a 3D printer.

Congrats! We should have a 3D Printer thread for kicks.

Nice!

Great stuff here, did you go with the kit or the pre-assembled?

 

[LBussy]

Nice!

Great stuff here, did you go with the kit or the pre-assembled?

The kit. I wanted to understand the printer intimately so I figured that was the better way to go about it.

I just received a ship date: Dec 7th. It looks as if their shipping is very fast so I may have it by the 12th.