So what happened to deltas ?

year or so back deltas were the new way to print. There were big ones, small ones and cheap ones. Ones big enough to print an ali-**** urn and ones small enough to balance on your head.
Commercial ones, emclosed ones.

Now they seem to have more or less disappeared, lot of kits around. But no company seems to be making fully built ones any more.

So what happened ?

Okay, what's wrong with b a b a ? That's what the asterixes should say. In what language is that a rude word ? and what does it mean - 'cos it's a new one on me.

Beats me - on both counts.

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Originally Posted by curious aardvark

year or so back deltas were the new way to print. There were big ones, small ones and cheap ones. Ones big enough to print an ali-**** urn and ones small enough to balance on your head.
Commercial ones, emclosed ones.

Now they seem to have more or less disappeared, lot of kits around. But no company seems to be making fully built ones any more.

So what happened ?

Okay, what's wrong with b a b a ? That's what the asterixes should say. In what language is that a rude word ? and what does it mean - 'cos it's a new one on me.

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express

That works :)

seemecnc, eris, orion, hatchbox, that newer company that makes a giant industrial one with screw extruders instead of using filament, (some female name that I forget) "deltaprinter", joren, geeetech...

there's a shedload of prebuilt units that require... some assembly, but given the size of them and empty space wasted in the packaging it's rare to see one that needs no assembly at all. They are prebuilt in the sense that you only need to put a few bits together out of the box.


There are lots of them out there on the market.

I think though that they're not terribly complex to assemble compared to a corexy or even a prusa (mostly to do with belt tension and stuff I would think) so most companies just sell the kits.

https://www.amazon.com/HATCHBOX-3D-P.../dp/B01C6H8V9G

Took about 4 seconds to find.

wasn't saying there aren't any - just that they seem to have dropped out of news, advertising, any kind of launch etc.

Every week we get at least two new corexeys hit the market - but when was the last announcement of a new delta ?

I have noticed this too.

On a side note: deltas always seemed really fragile to me.

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Originally Posted by curious aardvark

wasn't saying there aren't any - just that they seem to have dropped out of news, advertising, any kind of launch etc.

Every week we get at least two new corexeys hit the market - but when was the last announcement of a new delta ?

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Then you should say that, instead of:

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But no company seems to be making fully built ones any more.

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Because lots of companies make them lol

yes i tend to forget the terminally literal.

Turns out words mean specific things.

Will you two get a room.

Are you paying for it?

There's still quite a selection of deltas.. but I find delta's more unattractive than the simple xyz (cartesian?) printers as they have a weird build volume. It's harder or impossible to print bigger objects with the same price range.

I think the deal with them is, especially looking at Amazon, the actual machine construction is way easier, since there are so many priced around the $350 US mark that have fairly decent print yield sizing. That being said, since the general construction has been so obviously nailed down well, I'm thinking it's up to the engineers to make it something interesting. Think of it like this "we know they're out there, but we made it better by (fill in the blank).
I like what I'm seeing about the SeemeCNC machines, I think they have the right idea, but I've been seriously following Alex's designs here http://carbonoid.jimdo.com/english/products/ but that's because it looks like flat out 3d Printing Porn to me.
Now, I have yet to own a delta, but I do want one, even though my budget prohibits a new, even cheap printer right now.

Well, Reprap closed down happened for a starters, so there went the Fisher Delta (thank god I bought 3...) and the kossel kits dried up, blomker stopped and cheap cheap ones flooded the market (FlSun $225 for example) But I don't get it really, I have found them so easy to build, they are strong and don't require much maintenance other than the odd belt tighten.. motors all run at the same voltage and are easy to setup.. compared to a prusa that has dual Z motors, threaded rods you have to get the steps right for etc.. they are really a breeze.

I've always gotten the best quality prints out of my delta's, so yeah I really don't know.. i'll just stick with mine :)
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