Courageous @D_Rob is already well underway with his Ingentis build. I haven’t even got the prototype I’m building working yet, best get my arse in gear and finish it… Also, his one looks nicer than mine
Originally shared by D Rob
Didn’t like any of the lcd cases on the net so I designed my own. Forgot to turn on support for the sd slot. Oops! So I noticed before it got there. I ran for a sd card. Put tape and abs juice on the tape. When it made the first string I was ready to hit pause. One dot of super glue stuck it in place and worked like a charm. I pulled it out after the print and only a tiny dot of tape stuck I shaved it away with a knife and acetone bathed it. I like it
Sweet! Glad to see someone using the T-slot tantillus pieces. I was hoping someone would; I read the comment about the bearings your using having the same OD as the 608 bearing holes so they’re direct drop-ins – amazing thinking.
Excellent @D_Rob , you’re build looks great. I have been talking about copying @Tim_Rastall 's design for a while but you are really fast. Great recovery on the LCD box too
I agree @Yomi_Colledge . This has given me the motivation to get my butt in gear also. I have a little more design work to do before I can order parts tho as I want to make sure that I have a specific build area (12" cubed). Plus I am toying with the idea of having the motors direct drive the shafts instead of geared or belt driven so my frame needs to be able to accommodate that and still be completely enclosed so that I can run ABS in my home without worrying about temperature variations.
@Tim_Rastall what was the infill % that you used for your parts and as for the frame is it bolted together on its own or did you use the printed parts to bolt the rails and styles together?
Can’t wait to see what you come up with. I’ve got a few mod ideas myself but I just want to get the basic frame and electronics in place before I start on those. Otherwise I’ll end up with yet another unfinished project
@Mike_Smith these pictures are of @D_Rob s build so he’ll have to answer the infill question. Those corners have been modified to have fewer holes by the looks of it so I imagine the frame is held together on its own. There is a video where I explain how to do that.
@Mike_Smith I used 75% but it looks solid due to wall thickness. I wanted it rigid. And I am using 1"x1" extrusions so when I modded the corner pieces I filled in the holes and am hand marking and drilling. My frame assembly method is not typical either for the top and bottom square I tapped one end of each extrusion wrapped a 1/4 x20 mushroom headed screw with teflon tape and screwed it to where I could just beat it in the slott on the end of the next piece to form a90 beating is done gently as possible with a rubber mallet the pulling force and teflon keep vibrations from loosening the screws. The top and bottom squares are 4 17" extrusions giving 16"inside and 18" outside. The vertical pieces are 18" for 18" inside height and 20" outside height. I also use the best the screw method on them but they are taped on both ends. The corner peeves hold the bearings and also help make the game more rigid
@D_Rob Awesome thanks. I have an idea you might want to try with the frame assembly. I used to design laser cutting/marking systems for a company in Florida and they used T-Slot for their frames as well and they would tap the ends of the T-Slot like what you did but then they would drill a hole just large enough to get an allen wrench thru on the side of the connecting T-Slot so that they could screw the allen bolt into to end of the one T-Slot then slide the head of the allen bolt into the channel of the connecting piece then slide the allen wrench thru the hole and tighten the bolt. By using a small enough drill it doesn’t mess up the outside finish of the T-Slot and just looking at it you can’t see the holes as they are hidden in the bottom of the T-Slot channels. They used this method on some pretty big machines and they were rock solid. Just a thought you might try on any other projects you use T-Slot on.
@Mike_Smith and @D_Rob if you look for an album in my photos called Big Tantillus Videos, there’s a video called ‘frame explained’ or similar. I think I came up with the same idea as Mike describes :).
