Originally shared by Joe Spanier
What I did instead of sleeping last night…
So my main printer forever known as “The Box” was in need of some serious updates. It was printed on my first gen Prusa, that was way out of calibration, and generally just didn’t print that great due to many things. Luckily all the parts were printed on it, so the issues matched up and until now it was doing a decent job.
Finally the extruder fan went out and I decided to not fix it again, with out a redo. So I give you, The Box-V_Slot edition. Using modified carriages I designed for my laser, I took the original model and designed drop in mounts for the new V-slot rails. The belts got re-ran and the X axis motor was also upgraded. All in all I dropped about 75% of my weight from my 12mm steel rails to the aluminum of the gantry.
I also upgraded from my hacked Air-tripper extruder to @Eclsnowman 's excellent Hercustruder, but added one as well.
For my hotend, I ran with the modular drop in plate idea @LulzBot uses on the TAZ machines, because its awesome, and made a modular plate to handle my new Legends Pack from E3d.
What you see here is the first print, with no calibration an extruder values I pulled out of my sleep crazy butt, because it was 3am by the time I got to firmware.
All in all the whole conversion was probably about 12 hours, but well worth it. The performance of the printer is night and day, its even quieter. And the Cyclops.
Also, @Simplify3D your dual extrusion support is awful. Purge walls, seriously.
