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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: mach3 3D printer

« on: January 25, 2014, 05:07:41 PM »

Hi
Nice!
I made 3d printer with mach3 as well. Now I am trying to get dual extruder to work but kisslicer´s maker is missing and I have to search an alternative program.
What program do you use for slicing?

I am not convinced with slic3r and perhaps cura would do the job but there has to be post processing plugin to convert the GCODE to fit the mach3.
Has anybody already done this plugin?

                                                                                                                                                                                  Slic3r has setting for mach 3 and emc2

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Plastic Injection Molding

« on: January 08, 2014, 04:33:20 AM »

Sounds great I'm very interested to as soon as you get working on it Start posting it

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: mach3 3D printer

« on: January 06, 2014, 12:36:58 PM »

Fixittt great work I've been trying to convince the 3-D printing community to look in to Mach 3 for a couple of years now. I have built one starting off planning on using Mach 3 works great. I did not need machining capabilities afterwards but through my research I found that nobody had reliable enough extruder and hot end for me large prints were going to take 70 hours. So I started off the build with the extruder and hot end designed and built and tested until I was happy with it worked out very well. But turned out to be quite heavy so the machine had to be good enough to drive it and accelerate it. Nema 34 motors for XYZ and Nema 23 for the extruder and 100 to 1 planetary gearbox with a large diameter serrated drive wheel from a mig welder for the filament I used to be a prototype technician for a large pro audio company this is a tool I made for myself to make my job easier here are a few pictures

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Scratch build Small mill

« on: October 22, 2013, 07:33:15 PM »

The little mill is up and running I don't want to say finished because I don't think they ever are. Nothing pretty to look at but does a good job is a couple pictures The picture of the chips shows good size and shape .060 doc 20 ipm 3000 RPM 5/16 end mill

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Scratch build Small mill

« on: October 01, 2013, 08:23:14 PM »

Here is a little update added some steel plates to the side of the base My first test part .040 doc. 15 ipm 2600 rpm 6061 aluminum a few more pictures

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Scratch build Small mill

« on: September 13, 2013, 08:47:07 PM »

Here is a couple more pictures

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Scratch build Small mill

« on: August 29, 2013, 05:43:44 PM »

Here's a small milling machine I'm putting together hopefully it's a little more rigid than the standard X2

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My nearly completed cnc ruter

« on: July 12, 2013, 11:42:46 AM »

great looking machine

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Nice Router Build

« on: July 11, 2013, 10:34:21 AM »

It's been running and being used for six years now I just got laid off I was a prototype technician at a professional loudspeaker company I have to go to the shop and disassemble it and bring it home it is my machine works very well 10 inches of Z travel takes a 4 foot wide sheet used to cut flat panels and 3-D calving can cut with speeds up to 90 inches a minute and Rapids of 160

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Nice Router Build

« on: July 11, 2013, 08:19:19 AM »

Wow very nice machine looks like it's going to run very well is a couple pics of mine