I am new the the site and am having troubles locating the information I am looking for so I this is not the correct forum, please direct me to the correct one, thanks.
I am looking to build my own DIY 3D printer so I can print guitar bodies so I am looking for design plans with an large print bed or if I could find someone who could assist me in expanding the RepRapPro designs.
My school owns a dimension 1200es sst and it can't print a guitar bodies and this thing cost 32000gbp so you better think wisely and 1 reel of stratasys abs costs £300 and these things have about 1.9 kg abs in since it's "professional quality" that's BS btw
My school owns a dimension 1200es sst and it can't print a guitar bodies and this thing cost 32000gbp so you better think wisely and 1 reel of stratasys abs costs £300 and these things have about 1.9 kg abs in since it's "professional quality" that's BS btw
@Daniel, I was very skeptical about "professional quality filament" myself for a long time but have come to realize that there is a definite level of simplicity that comes with the more-expensive materials. I don't mind fighting with mily-oval filament or filament varying in width or density along its length, but for my teachers, they find systems like Stratasys and 3DS' Cubify to be easier to just get to printing and not have to worry as much about layer adhesion and print quality when they just need to print 20+ of the same object(s) for a class. I like the amazing variety of options that are available via generic resellers (in the US: Octave, SainSmart, Taulman, etc) but unless you need Nylon or Polycarbonate or something interesting, the quality of commercially produced ABS/PLA filament from the manufacturer (Makerbot, Ultimaker, Up!, Cubify, etc) can make the basic tasks simpler for users who aren't into tuning and tinkering. This comes at a higher cost, but $25/2.2kg or $40/2.2kg is fairly insignificant in comparison to the cost of your time in reprints and clogged nozzles. I have found metal fines from machining the extruder embedded in lengths of generic filament before that required some interesting efforts to clean out a .3mm nozzle that would cause many to turn away from the potential in their 3D printers. Better to let them have a good experience for an extra $15 USD per spool in many cases.
Yes at my school we are going to wait till the next time we get our budget and we are going to sell it I might try and buy it if you can lend me about £17000 but we are going to get 3 or 4 maker bots 3 solid oodles and 6makiboxs or we could just sell a reeL of filament to buy a maki box. But then we are going to get a fortus machine hopefully or an objet
look into plastic welding abs... its the same stuff you buy thats "professional quality" the only reason i know this is because i happen to do plastic welding not sure on the price.... but its not $300 thats for sure...
