One key to good FDM printing is a steady ambient temperature *with no airflow*
around the printer. A bit of a breeze can cause uneven shrinkage and warping.
That's why some printers are enclosed and building a printer enclosure is a
popular thing.
If you're wanting to get your 3D printing feet wet, easily and inexpensively,
the Monoprice Select Mini V2 is $219.99. It comes fully assembled, take it out
of the box, level the bed, it's ready to use. Mostly steel construction, weighs
around 16 pounds. With the original version a Facebook group was founded, they
stopped counting members when it hit 5,000. Owners of all Monoprice 3D printers
are welcomed, lots of them have upgraded from the mini.
My Mini has made me $$$. One job I did with it made me $500. :) I used it to
print some knobs for a classic car. Filled the shells with urethane resin, with
jigs I 3D printed to hold rods (and a 3/8-16 bolt for the shift knob) upright
to make starter holes for mounting in the resin. I also printed vise jigs to
clamp the knobs for drilling the holes to size. Sent along a few extra knobs to
the restoration shop to experiment on finishing the outside.
I forget which car they were for but some fancy classic exhibited at Hershey
and other Concours d'Elegance shows had my 3D printed knobs. :) I have a larger
Hictop printer I bought for $100 but have yet to use it. Before I bought the
mini I bought a kit of all the electronics to build a printer but have yet to
get around to building the frame.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 6:38:35 PM MDT, Gene Heskett
<ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
I'd like to see if I could convert this 6040 into a printer, precisely so
I could do something along those lines but in looking around for a
printhead, it seems the drive is much lighter so smaller motors can move
it faster, and never the twain shall meet. Trading a 3kg 24k spindle
motor out for a printhead the might weigh 5oz is quite a change. I
could buy another printer, but where I'd have to set it up has no AC.
And good results seem to be quite temp dependent. So I get that stuff
from fleabay, and wait, and wait, and wait. Thats frustrating too.
So who makes the best printer for stuff like this, at an affordable
price?
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