Sounds like a good plan

For me things are still just in the planning phase as i'm trying to find the best place to source parts from.

I'm from Sweden so anything in the EU is usually okayish, depending on their shipping rates. I looked at your kits also but since I saw that you wrote about the aluminium plates thought I would wait a bit and see what happens.

I found a few sites that sells OpenBuilds stuff in EU but some charge a lot both for parts and shipping. And for some i'm not so sure if it is "safe" to order from there. And some only have a few of the things but not other parts. The C-Beam seems to be the hardest part to get hold of in EU although not impossible.

I was originally planning on building a CNC router but right now those plans are on ice since I found this design (and attended a Sci-Fi fare with my son that triggered a lot of ideas )...except for maybe sourcing additional V-Slot's etc. for one while i'm anyway ordering things to build a 3D printer.

 

Any update on the progress?

 

Interesting redesign/evolution

I'm thinking about starting to build the v1 version now, as is. While watching you finalize the redesign. And then I will probably upgrade it. Unless the redesign is finished by the time I have collected all the parts that I can't produce myself.

Biggest hurdle right now is to be able to order from emakershop (the hobbed bolt). I'm stuck in a catch 22 right now since I never got the password email and i'm waiting for a response from the site admin.

 

Ok, thanks for the tip on the alternative to the hobbed bolt.

Re. PSU how much juice do you recommend that it should be capable of, roughly?

 

I changed some of the plexy plate with Aluminium plate (base/Bed support/pulley support/X carriage) , this printer is amazing now!
Just need to make a support for the extruder motor fan.

 

Hello Camini, well done!! Please, can you post some information about the hot-end mount?

Thank you very much ;-)

 

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:970720 , everything is here

 

I'm also having problems creating an account. I've mailed you @ [email protected]. Could you please check this?
Kindest Regards

 

You have used Mini wheels in all the axis. Is it to minimise the weight? If it is to minimise the weight, then for the X-axis it is applicable. But, in Y and Z axis also Mini wheels are used. Any particular reason for that? Price wise both the Solid and Mini wheels are almost the same.

 

But, in your V2 design you are going to upgrade to Aluminium plates only...

 

Here are some pictures of my build. I changed some things up so I could use the motors I have from my current printer. I also added a mount for an auto leveling probe.

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Hi,

I know nothing of 3d printers but I'd like to build one and learn. I wonder if this IndieLC printer would perhaps be a nice starting point for a diy 3d printer?

Been drooling over diy 3d printers on this site and the IndieLC and C-bot strikes my fancy...

 

Primarily I want to print upgrade parts to my X-Carve and later to do the same for an OX type cnc mill.

How is progress on the Indie14o design going? I'd like to build that when design is done.

 

Man that looks cool!!!

 

Nice! Me wants it!

 

getting close to being done with mine just gotta order a few more parts.

 

So yeah, I just ordered the parts kit from you. I look forward to this being my first 3d printer build.

 

While I'm waiting for my parts to arrive, I'm trying to get psyched up to get the build started and had some questions.

1) Looks like that board is quite expensive to buy/ship to the US. I have a Mostly-Printed CNC (thingiverse) that runs a Ramps/Marlin with Ardunio combo. Would this machine be easily able to use a Marlin firmware configuration? If so, any hints on what kind of edits to the firmware might be necessary to make this work?

2) Can you provide some additional pictures or diagrams related to the belting? I didn't even realize until I read through today that it's a semi-closed-loop type thing and I can see the wire-tied ends a little in the video, but I'm unsure how things like the X carriage are belted so that they are properly tied to/tensioned move as the belt moves. Same goes for the Y and the bed setup. I can only assume once I dig into the Z assembly diagram I'll question that one as well.

3) The BOM just lists a heated bed from ReprapPro, do you have a link to exactly what size bed? I'm going to have to source more stuff here from the USA and thus, would need to get properly matching parts.

4) Somewhere in the discussions, there was something about 623/625 bearings being wrong on the BOM. I'm not sure if there's a BOM version history, but I want to know if this is right:

Misc 623 Bearing 3


For anyone else who's done a build, any tips, hints, or advice would be great.

 

Thanks for the response!

I'm going to repurpose my Ramps board if the settings are easy enough to modify in the firmware. I have no idea where to start there, so I'll ask a billion questions more when the time comes.

I'll see what it all looks like when the parts come together...I'm just not seeing where the belts actually move things. I do see some areas in the printed parts that look like the belt wraps on each side of the pieces, but darn if I just don't "see" it.

Last question for the day (and before you ship maybe)...part "bowden start" - as you mention RepRapPro is dead. I don't see anywhere to buy that in the US, and on eMakershop it looks like reprappro is one of the vendors that sells it there, so they may not have any more. I see a bunch of junk on AliExpress, but 30 day shipping from China sucks.

Any chance you have/sell those? If so, send me an invoice

In the end, i'm going to get someone to print me the E3Dv6 mount as that's the hot end I plan on using for this...will see how that all shakes out.