I don’t think anyone has posted this yet. I love the idea.
This Large Format 3D Printer Made from Two $9.99 Side Tables is the Ultimate IKEA Hack
Alright, I’m impressed.
Why is it called a hack? Ive got ikea stuff. Thats not really rigid. I dont know. Maybe ill build a printer out of eggboxes. Yay iam smart
Steel would be way better
It seems just an elaborate and very complicated 3d printer that looks good and hides all cables/etc… there have been other IKEA Hacks attempts but maybe the creator wasn’t as ambitious to create videos and instructables (this looks more rigid, albeit not as good looking: https://is.gd/sDHRPf) …
IKEA LACK table is very light, I wonder about overall rigidity/stability.
I think people get to hung up about rigidity. There are some i3s that produce good results and the gantry flexes loads. The original Printrbots were just thin plywood and string and they can be tuned to something acceptable. Rigidity is good to a point, but you’re only accelerating a couple of hundred grams of gear, not crash testing it!
I agree, the less rigid a machine the lower the speed needed for acceptable results… but most want to speed up the prints not slow them down. That means accelerations, jerks, etc. Those need rigidity.
We all have different tolerance for ringing, corner blobbing, and slow prints. At this point, a monkey with an Internet connection could build a floppy printer that needs to run slow. We want to see some engineering.
One more thing, maybe the table itself would be rigid enough with two boards and some legs in between, as those legs are pretty lat on the ends and there is quite a large area where they butt the board, but there comes the Red plastic part that has only 2 walls that is interposed between the legs and the board… wtf? Making it deliberately weaker? Couldn’t the red pieced be bolted to the sides of the legs? Has it got to be prettier despite loosing rigidity? … well, I haven’t seen one print yet but I am sure we’ll have those kind of videos for the people who fall for it.
I just think that often people see print artifacts and they always blame rigidity. What about lash or elasticity in the belts or that steppers become notchy when you are driving them hard? There’s got to be a point of diminishing returns and I’m pretty sure most printers are well beyond it and there are bigger elephants…
Anyway, you can happily sit on this IKEA framed printer in most orientations, so it must be fairly stiff.
Maybe it could be made more rigid with tentioned Dynema from corner to corner.