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Wallmaster
Building a 3D Printer
December 16, 2013 09:12AM
I am Building a MendelMax 1.5 this time around. Slowly buying parts for the past year. Anyone had any luck with using PLA for a Y or X carriage ?
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Wallmaster
Re: Building a 3D Printer
December 17, 2013 05:06PM
I know everybody says to use ABS for the x and y carriage, but right now all I can work with is pla.
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Wallmaster
Re: Building a 3D Printer
January 02, 2014 04:27AM
I was able to use some abs and print an x am working on the y carriage.
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Wallmaster
Re: Building a 3D Printer
January 02, 2014 04:32AM
I plan to use ABL ( auto bed leveling ) on both my machines. I am thankful to the RepRap community for talking about it, as I am stubborn and probably would have never noticed it existed and was so easy to implement.
For my larger machine it should be a life savor as was the case with acceleration in slic3r.
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Wallmaster
Re: Building a 3D Printer
January 02, 2014 04:33AM
On faster machines, ABL would slow them down potentially ?
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Wallmaster
Re: Building a 3D Printer
January 27, 2014 12:07AM
I have implemented ABL on my larger printer. I would recommend it for anyone who has first layer issues due to an uneven bed.
I crashed the head at least 10 times and broke about 4 servos in the process, but now that I know what I am doing, it works very well. ( you still have to be care-full though )
It's almost a must have for large fixed beds.

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Wallmaster
Re: Building a 3D Printer
January 27, 2014 12:09AM
getting there with the MendelMax, printing the parts I need in ABS, then just a few more and I can put it together.
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Wallmaster
Re: Building a 3D Printer
September 17, 2014 02:54AM
Well since The Toledo crowd is as expected... NON EXISTANT. I will post pics of the MedelMax. I finally completed it after about 2 years....Here ya go !!
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