Just a few photographs showing the travel on the X-axis of my prototype printer,

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Just a few photographs showing the travel on the X-axis of my prototype printer, with an additional picture next to my Prusa i3 for size comparison :slight_smile:

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@Whosa_whatsis hopefully these pictures show you want I mean about travel, thanks for the concern :slight_smile:

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Ok, looks like your travel capability is using almost as much of the beam length as on the Bukito, but you’re wasting what looks like about 25mm of space on the right with the nozzle hanging over air. The off-center hot end allows the Bukito to have it’s nozzle on the corner of the platform when the carriage is in the same position, so it needs that much less length on the other end (I can see that your idler sticks out significantly farther past the edge of the platform than on the Bukito).

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If you don’t mind sharing, what was your total material cost for this bot?

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Hi @Matthew_Satterlee build isn’t complete as of yet so hard to give a final figure, I’m hoping to complete it for around £300 - 350. So far around £80 on OpenBuild V-slot parts, £60 on steppers and around £50 on RepRapPro Heat bed and hot end (total £190 so far). Obviously acrylic and printed parts haven’t cost me anything thanks to my machines at home.

Once I’ve completed prototyping the design I will upload all the files and create instructions videos with BOM lists for anyone who wants to build one.

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Cool! I hope you’ll continue to post pictures and your experience (when it finally prints).

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now i have to figure out how to replace vslot with regular alu extrusions, no vslot down here (argentina) and no possible way to get some.

Really nice printer btw, i have to build one, my wife will be happy.

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I’ve been playing with the idea of using V wheels (ones that have a concave V intended for use with convex V rails) running on round steel rods that are sitting in the slots of a regular extrusion. Sort of a hybrid of v-slot/v-rail system with a supported-shaft rails. With the proper tensioning, the wheels themselves might turn out to be enough to keep the rods in place in the slots.

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nice one @Whosa_whatsis , i guess i should make some v wheels on the lathe and give it a try…

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Hello Simon Day superb achievement