So what happened to deltas ?

[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.

[Davo]

Beats me - on both counts.

[Mjolinor]

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.

express

That works

[Ama-fessional Molder]

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.

[Ama-fessional Molder]

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

Took about 4 seconds to find.

[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 ?

[Sebastian Finke]

I have noticed this too.

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

[Ama-fessional Molder]

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 ?

Then you should say that, instead of:

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

Because lots of companies make them lol

[curious aardvark]

yes i tend to forget the terminally literal.

[Ama-fessional Molder]

Turns out words mean specific things.