I’m giddy with anticipation! A Box came in the mail and it lets me introduce to you the latest build project. My printer has a name:
IGentUS
It’s through the kind assistance of @igus_Inc that I hope to give a little back to the community that’s been extremely patient with my learning curve.
This is an Ingentis based printer, using polymer guides instead of metal bushings and linear bearings. The orange parts are Ingentis, the Blue parts are those I’ve printed to adapt it to the @igusInc parts, and the build volume is solidly between small and crazy huge (300x300x450, 12x12x18in)
It’ll be using braided fishing line, and I hope to strike a balance between speed, resonance, and print quality.
Hopefully it departs enough from the printers that came before to give you something to consider when you build your next printer, and I hope it does the igus parts justice as they’re SMOOOOOOOTH!
Sweet! I can’t wait to see how it turns out! I’ve been wanting to make my next printer with polymer bearings, but finding the time…sheesh. Pardon me while I live vicariously through you.
Why don’t to print bushings from POM? I already bought a reel of POM to try out. I hope acetal will slide good to forget about buying bearings. You can made bushing as a clamp to compensate any possible wearing…
Because as cool as printing stuff is, my current printer would make CRUMMY sliding surface things. I want to spend time making and using the printer, not overcoming the limitations of my skill set and current printer. I also want to build it and forget about wear.
the igus rods are ceramic coated and very smooth. They’re specified for their linear bushings and while I’m sure other aluminum rods would work, I’d expect them to not work as well.
I also want to build it and forget about wear.