oh hi there i didn't see you.
so I've been working on a 3D printer that i nick named Gigantor. i reached a point where i realized my original design just would work for several reasons.
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| yeah like that....but shitty |
so this is it. amongts all that shit was the machine that couldn't. as you can see i went a little crazy with the frame. it was made of 3/4 steel tube, and was so strong a truck could of drove over it. for some reason i thought it needed to be that strong and since I've reconsidered how much frame i really need. the frame though wasnt really the problem. it was mostly the rails i decided on. i went with a bla bla bla copper tubed that was also 16mm. i bought some pretty cheap 16mm bearings to go with it from amazon. i got the idea from a couple of posts about creating a rail system for smooth shots for cameras. the linear motion it provided was so so. the real issue with it was that it wasn't very stable due to my choice of lining it up with the corner steel instead of trying to go off a 90 degree angle from the bottom of the rail, because lets be honest im no welder.
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| very steampunk |
they were sligntly off and when i hooked up the printrboard to it to test its movement and worked like donkey balls. this caused me to develop another idea to create a square roller bearing. thus ends gigantor try 1.
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| thats the mistake on the left |
