i2 is all back together again, only took me 2 years to get round to sorting the wiring out. I do need to print a few bits to finish the job though, the E3D is rather a large extruder, but this is roughly the look that will stay now.
Looks good, my I2 is looking a little wore out as well I need to rewire and re arrange a few things and make an extension kit for the z axis.
I’m just starting an i2 build, have 90% of the parts on hand now. Still need a HotEnd for Wade’s Extruder, and I’m waiting on the controller to arrive. Yours Looks awesome all in red. Mine will look like a dog’s breakfast. My local Public Library printed the parts for me in 4 different colours because I asked them to fit them into what ever print jobs had going and I did not care about the colour.
Shame you have 90% of the parts, I’d have strongly advised you don’t build an i2, it’s somewhat deprecated now and there are cheaper, faster, more reliable and easier designs available, like the i3.
The Wades extruder was even deprecated when I built my i2 but I chose it anyway out of a misguided sense that it was the “correct” extruder, probably because the RepRap Wiki told me so (that site is a fantastic source of bunk). Turns out its hard to use and hard to assemble and quite unreliable, use a Gregs instead.
OK thanks for the tip. I looked seriously at the i3, but felt more confident about working with, and getting my hands on threaded rod. Rather than some extruded aluminum. I think I will stay the course and upgrade to the Gregs as soon as I get my i2 going and then move on to an i3 as you suggest.
The i3 is mostly threaded rod, although you do need to source the frame. I don’t like threaded rod any more, it’s very heavy and doesn’t provide much rigidity. My next printer will be laser cut wood or aluminium extrude.
I had my friend laser me out the parts for a Graber I3 looks nice and can use some of the I2 rods. I use wages extruders but I don’t use the easy accessible wades, I use the older 4 bolt tensioner style wades.
Went through to many tensioners with the newer style.
The I2 demands maintenance and a lot of it. Bolts shake loose, rods bend get uneven, horrible y axis design (it’s to heavy). Other than that I have been running mine and upgrading it for the past year and a half. Last firmware I flashed over had 26 days of printing time on it. Now I run marlin with auto z leveling.
Just my two cents.
@Jeremy_G_WeisTek_Eng The advice and the information I’m getting from this community is priceless and worth way more than “two cents”. Thank you for taking the time chime in.