Kossel Mini Build - Completed

[BotBuilderJohn]

First, a pic of it finished!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabella/13968524957/

Built a Kossel Mini on Friday night. Nothing elaborate....

- standard files
- airtripper
- j-head 1.75 / .5 nozzle
- ramps
- igus rails
- carbon rods / traxxas ends, etc

Got it up and running Friday night with a few decent test prints.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabell...n/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabell...n/photostream/

Did a few larger fast prints like this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabell...n/photostream/

But e-steps were off a bit. Got that tuned, re-checked the PID on the hotend....

Test print from yesterday:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabell...n/photostream/

Much better! Still need to tweak on a few firmware settings, but it's shaping up nicely!

[f.larsen]

Yeah, well..... I'm envious and impressed, looks good, good prints and in the background is a ultimaker 2.

I hope the Kossel continues to work well, want to share any words of wisdom?

[BotBuilderJohn]

Words of wisdom? Make sure it's all assembled as well as possible. Everything tight, extrusions up against plastic bits tightly, etc. Get your sliders / endstops set to the same height as close as possible before you ever start calibrating. I'm still chasing a few issues, and will be testing some new bits in the next week or two, so I'll post some updates. A new design for a heated bed, an LCD controller, etc....

And yeah, that's a U2 in the background. On the same table is an older i3 ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabell...57633957218115 ) and a modded Rep1XL ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabell...57631867590921 )