[Swansea Hackspace] Filament Colour

[Justin Mitchell]

Digging around the RepRapPro website, they have the source files for all
of the parts used.

https://github.com/reprappro/mendel

One set of files is all of the parts laid out in a tray, ie pack the
print bed with as many of the parts as possible so that you only do a
couple of prints to make everything.

They are slightly risky as if any one part messes up or comes unstuck it
could jeopardise the whole tray.  

They also give pre-sliced gcode files, using 0.4mm layers in PLA.

Tray1  43.8 meters  eta 4:53:22
Tray2  51.8 meters  eta 8:54:23

So thats an estimate of nearly 14 hours, and 95m of filament.
IF it goes perfectly.   (for reference, a 1kg reel is 330m)

Given that length of time, i would be tempted to just buy a set of parts
off ebay too, but your mileage may vary.

On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 07:38 +0100, Ceri Clatworthy wrote:
> Found this ...
> http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/331268303447?nav=SEARCH
> 
> This one does not say what weight it is. But £20+ for a roll of
> filliment. 
> And 24 hours. ..
> 
> Might be a good buy
> Ceri
> 
> On 9 Aug 2014 21:21, "Justin Mitchell"
> <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 16:34 +0100, djdavies83 wrote:
>         
>         > One 1Kg is more than enough to print all the parts for a
>         second reprap
>         > isn't it?
>         
>         >From what i can find the Prusa i2, and Mendel 90 are about
>         0.5kg,
>         and the RepRapPro Mendel is about 0.6kg
>         
>         So a kilo reel should be plenty.
>         
>         note that you will need to dedicate some serious time to
>         printing your
>         own, discussions i have read suggest it can take upwards of
>         24hrs of
>         printing. Your choice of settings will of course affect this
>         greatly.
>         
>         
>         
>         
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