I am rebuilding my Prusa i3 to use alu extrusions,

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I am rebuilding my Prusa i3 to use alu extrusions, and I am looking for a nice printer to base it on.
I’ve already got a bunch of 2020 alu extrusions and smooth rods meant for a mendelmax/adapto (from aliexpress <3).

My wishlist:

  1. Use only prusa i3/mendelmax smooth rods
  2. Enclosure “built-in”, I do not want an external/bulky enclosure.
  3. Cartesian.
  4. Not bowden (I’m planning to build an eustathios to handle that).
  5. Openscad-based sources for easy tweaking.

There are a lot of printer projects out there, so I hope someone has made something like what I want:P

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So far the closest I’ve found to the above is a modified mendelmax (cube enclosure):
http://www.hive76.org/modified-mendelmax-reprap-build-starting-wednesday
But it has motors outside frame, which means it would be harder to enclose.

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Hmm yes that is true, but is it really a big problem? I had not planned on very high temperatures inside the enclosure.
In my testing I’ve found that just going up to 40C helps a lot with ABS warping.

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Also, belts are rated to ~60-65C. Something else to consider when building an enclosure.

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I think I’ve found a fairly decent fit: http://reprap.org/wiki/Haeckel
Another alternative is to base it on the PrismX, a mendelmax evolution that looks like it has an awesome openscad-based printers, though it has a triangle frame and a lot of parts outside the frame.

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@Taylor_Landry1 Good to know, though I really doubt(hope!) it will get that hot:P

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Wilson ts