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<div class="freeola-reply"><strong>On 09:16, 9th Sep 2014, Ceri Clatworthy wrote:</strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Thanks :)</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">this is my second go at building a CORE X-Y style printer, </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Formally a 'H-BOT' design, (blue parts) that I started when Hackers was still in the university !!</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">The advantage (hopefully) is that there are two belts, one giver clockwise twist to the carriage,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">the other gives CCW twist to the carriage - with the hot end attached.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">So Ceri, something like this is it?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><a href="http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?178,372427,399574">http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?178,372427,399574</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">What is the cost like?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Hopefully, the two twisting forces will cancel each other out,Â</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">whereas on the 'H-BOT' design, the twisting force is CW/CCW for +X/-XÂ</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">therefore causing jamming !!</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">So far there are 7 parts, of which only 4 are unique.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">excluding 1 part - repeated 8 times, which is a sleeve for some bearings, - not sure if I really need them, or if I can engineer them out ?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">To design & print:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Dolly, with Hot-End mount, and belt 'tie-offs'</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Z upper mount, with Lead-screw stepper mount,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Z lower mount, with Lead-screw bushing,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Z carriage,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Table mount.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">will use my extruder  design : <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:292836">http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:292836</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Tim counted the parts on 'our' printer, and he lost count at 35 !!!!!</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Cheers, and thanks for watching</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Ceri</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Emyr Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="/webmail/compose?to%5B%5D=em@preseli.com" target="_blank">em@preseli.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<div dir="ltr">it was a work in progress by Ceri, the top of a new 3d printer he is designing... I am sure he will explain in his own words when he gets online - but it is very clever, using two belts working in opposite directions to prevent skewing of the printer bed</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 8 September 2014 22:40, djdavies83 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="/webmail/compose&to%5B%5D=djdavies83@hotmail.com" target="_blank">djdavies83@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<div><div class="h5"><div><div>Thanks for the replies on printer viewing, I won't send any print jobs while I'm not there. I don't know how to print while I am there yet so now chance of me even thinking about a remote job.</div>
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<div>I can see the bed light blonking away now, no jobs on though.</div>
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<div>What was that thing on the table earlier? Was it some kind of cnc or plotter?</div>
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<div>Date:08/09/2014 21:42 (GMT+00:00)</div>
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<div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] On train from London</div>
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<div>Under the 3D Printer menu item - See our Printer in Action<br />
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<div><div>How do I find the printer cam?</div>
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<div>I didn't know we had one yet.</div>
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<div>Date:08/09/2014 20:52 (GMT+00:00)</div>
<div>To: Swansea Hackspace</div>
<div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] On train from London</div>
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<div>Cheeky<br />
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On Monday, 8 September 2014, Richard Morgan <<a>richard.morgan@avocation.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br />
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<div>Viewing the 'Social Night' from the train and the printer cam is better than the room cam!</div>
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