I’ve only roughed out most of the hardware (e.g. I’ve been messing around in OpenSCAD for the design, so I don’t have a STEP or IGES file. (I think: I haven’t measured to make sure I have all the necessary lengths of extrusion but there’s enough flexibility in the design that I’m pretty sure I can make it work anyway.) I’ve come up with a design I can build with buying only a small 100 tooth GT2 belt everything else is sitting around the house. From another project, I have an extra 330mm 1204 ball screw. I became curious: Could I, with leftovers and excess stock sitting around the house from other projects, together with parts from the existing gantry printer, make a substantially better gantry printer? From the previous rebuild, I have a couple of 450mm MGN12 clone (“chiwin”) rails that work. In particular, it’s now working better in every respect than my junk gantry hictop printer that got me into this 3d printing world in the first place.īut when it comes to printing emergency protective gear, could I do more, faster? I’m at home because pandemic (I am very grateful that I am working from home!) and I just got my corexy build starting to work well.
