Heaven help me - I've just bought a delta kit :-)

[curious aardvark]

Oil ? Nobody mentioned oil to me - bugger :-(
makes sense, but dave never mentioned it - it's all his threading kit, so it must be his fault lol
He knows I don't do much metal working.
Guess that's the difference between brute strength and ignorance and brute strength and proper practice. Unfortunately I was using the former.

I will oil in future lol
Got lithium grease and 3 in-1 oil in here with me. Just never occured to me.

The vertical struts are 1.5 metres tall, the frame struts 420mm
aluminium bed is 380mm diameter, printbite 350mm.
I figure I'll get at least 1.2 metres printable height.

Currently making feet from sienoc flexible pla. Essentially identical to polyflex - but half the price !
prints great from Alexa.
25mm/s print speed for flexible filament on a bowden tube :-)
Plus you can run the first layer at 100% - so actually prints stuff pretty quick.

Got to do one at a time though, one thing flexible pla is really really good at is stringing. Can't be avoided so you try not to give it the chance.

I reckon this stuff is what spiderman's webbing is made of :-)

I'm going to drop into my aluminium engineering mates tomorrow and see what they can do. Hoping they'll drill it out and offer to finish the threading as well. Fingers crossed :-)