This is my latest 3-D printer I designed and built

[cnc dick]

Here are a few pictures

[KDog]

Very nice! Looks super stable!

[Egon van Engelen]

Nice, all aluminium! But we want specs, what can this sturdy beast do? ;o)

[cnc dick]

It runs very well it is very rigid and very reliable the extruder is something I came up with which works flawlessly it uses a serrated drive wheel off mig welder it is over 1 inch in diameter so more teeth are engaged in filament at a time and has 100 to 1 gearbox here is a crappy little video throwing its weight around click on picture should be a link the XY and Z are nema 23 motors

[Feign]

Wow, that thing is a beast. I don't doubt that it's solid, the company worked for used to build testing rigs with that same aluminum extrusion.

I suppose it's running RepRap software?

How much did you spend on this machine?

[Egon van Engelen]

Nice, but I was more interested in speeds to be honest. My thought was that it should be able to run at higher speeds because it looks so sturdy.
I see you use Repetier as firmware right?

[cnc dick]

It can print at much higher speeds and with no machine deflections problem being I'm a little bit of a stickler for quality and it's the actual filament being laid down on top of the layer before it that governs the quality. Like I say I'm a little fuzzy it definitely will print and 100 mm a second my acceleration is set for 2000 on the X and Y and I definitely could go up on the acceleration. If I remember right the little bottle opener took 32 minutes. Plus that is ABS not PLA which would be faster

[cnc dick]

Wow, that thing is a beast. I don't doubt that it's solid, the company worked for used to build testing rigs with that same aluminum extrusion.

I suppose it's running RepRap software?

How much did you spend on this machine?

I had most of the stuff laying around the aluminum extrusions aluminum plate linear rails and bearings three of the four motors basically I had bought that stuff a long time ago and was very cheap so all I had to buy for the build was one motor the electronics in a couple of belts and the hot end

[Geoff]

that looks really solid! love to see some videos of it in action

[cnc dick]

that looks really solid! love to see some videos of it in action

if you click on this is should be a link to kind of a crappy video