Hello Guys,
I've build a 3D Printer similar to the Printrbot simple. It uses a Ramps 1.4, Nema 17 and all the usual stuff. You can see how it looked like after i assembly. Its footprint was not that big - 370*350*360 - similar to that the print volume is around 150*150*150.
Either way I've designed it and build it from scratch but when I assemble it the base and the "tower"'s sides bend like hell. The machine is made of 5 mm plywood and I've used a laser cutter to manufacture the parts but they are not even close to straight.
I read a lot of topics and saw a common thought on all of them: this type of printer usually bends and "sags". All the hard work didn't quite produced the result i was expecting.
Besides that I'm creating this topic to publish my project and to alert the possibles cons of choosing this 3D Printer design.
Now that i have all the electronics and mechanical parts used of my printer I'll do another one, I'm looking towards a prusa i3 design. I'm thinking in using mdf and not plywood. What do you think guys?
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Here are some photos of the printer: [
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