/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1384564
You need to disable cold extrusion prevention and extrude something like 50mm with the heaterblock off. Then you measure how much comes out of the heatbreak and adjust the E-steps accordingly.

>>1383959
Anything above chink shit is quality stuff already, like IKO. You could go for ebay and search for some used IKO, THK, Rexroth, etc rails.


I'm finishing the design of my h-bot, I need only to decide which controller to use, how to attach the PSU and the like. Turns out making a smaller 3D printer isn't really that much cheaper than making a larger one, but since if you're printing mostly 10cm or so parts every day it isn't worth having a big printer in first place I guess there's still a niche for it. What do you think, /3dpg/ ?

I'll design a cheaper one using the same basic frame with the same kinematics as the Leapfrog Creatr, but since the only expensive component I can get rid of are the linear rails it won't be that much cheaper, maybe 10% or so.