3D Printed 3D Printer

Finished the blower swap..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/30_14.jpg
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I have a thread just for this car here: https://www.superchargerforums.com/t...lown-z06.5348/

Did I see what looks like a leaf spring under the front frame cross member at the other forum?

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Originally Posted by jeffmorris

Did I see what looks like a leaf spring under the front frame cross member at the other forum?

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Ya you did. It is the lightest possible solution and the specific implementation on the c5 and up corvettes does real good on the track. I put a set of track springs in my 5th gen(c5) corvette. they are the same springs. That can be seen here: http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...d.php?t=264817

They have no weight to them. And the track or T1 springs I put in my car are really stiff. So stiff that as low as my car sits it doesn't bottom out and when I launch it the rear doesn't squat at all. The rear spring has 850lbs springrate.

Back on the printer, I designed this piece to route cables under the y axis drive belt..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/42_13.jpg

There were a few revisions of this part and this is what I ended up with..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/38_16.jpg

And I designed the mount for the power supply..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/39_15.jpg

And started the 10 hour long print..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/40_16.jpg

What's the 3D printer that's printing the mount for power supply? What's the size of the build platform?

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Originally Posted by jeffmorris

What's the 3D printer that's printing the mount for power supply? What's the size of the build platform?

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That is Printalicious. My first home made printer. It has all the bells and whistles. 24v, Optical end strops. 6 stepper drivers, z probe for auto bed leveling, titan extruder, 400step/rev. or 0.9 degree stepper motors, and the 300x200 bed slides back and forth on 10mm linear rods. It can fit over 50mm more on each axis I just cant locate the correct size heatbed for my creation. The building of this printer can be seen here:
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...d.php?t=270130
And it's continued evolution can be seen here:
http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...Mixing-Printer
And here:
http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...twork-Printers

There is still one more round of upgrades I have ahead for printalicious. I have an mks gen 1.4 control board, mks solid state relay for the heatbed, and mks32 tft color touchscreen. I already have this setup on 2 other printers and I think it is just the way to go.

The power supply mount finished printing..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/43_13.jpg

And the power supply is now mounted to the frame..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/44_10.jpg

I know I got 2 different builds from 2 completely different industries going on here. So to set this thread back on the right track, the z06 is done. I finished tuning it this morning. Here is the results from my tuning session..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...z06%20dyno.png

And now the rest of this thread can be about the printed printer.

So the car is basically a knight 2000 - has it got the snazzy front lights ?
You know the ones that go back and forth and make the cool noise ;-)

No such luck on the lights. just a bunch of red led halos. I have some more progress on the printer to share. I made a piece to house a lamp(led) and to hold the lcd screen..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/45_10.jpg

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/46_11.jpg

This machine is looking more and more like a printer everyday. Just a few more small pieces to make and some wiring and this thing will be ready to make some stuff..

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...oWiz/47_10.jpg