First prints from Tom S. inspired Prusa clone…
IT’S ALIVE!!!
I’ve been printing for 5 years using a Replicator 2 and now I’ve upgraded to an Original Prusa i3 MK2S. While waiting for my Prusa kit to arrive I watched every minute of Tom’s 3-D Dolly clone build which inspired me and another person from Workshop 88, A suburban Chicago maker space (http://www.workshop88.com) to make clones. I’ll share the printer in show and tell when I get it dialed in and cleaned up later. It was a lot of work, took a lot of patience to wait for everything to arrive from China, and has required a lot of great troubleshooting, on the fly engineering, and learning.
I just wanted to thank the community here for all the good feedback and advice given to others over the years. As a result of my lurking, I easily can recognize that I have bed height issues (still tuning), missed steps in Y (stepper driver current to low), and under extrusion on the top (probably temp related, haven’t tuned PID yet), but it works! The 1cm calibration cube is dimensionally accurate, and the printer hasn’t caught fire yet (using SSR for bed, soldering power connections to RAMPS 1.4, and replacing poly-fuses with automotive fuses)
