Yesterday was a buying day for me here are some of things I purchased;

• TPU 1.75mm filament orange
• Klein strippers
• (2) heated bed borosilicate glass
• (2) 3d printing removal tool
• Dupont crimping tool 
• (100)0.1 mm gold plated connector
• (25) 4p 0.1 mm housings
• (20) silica gel packs
• 3d printing tweezers
• (1) 0.4mm cleaning nozzle bits
• 150mm wide Kapton tape
• wire mesh wiring conduit orange
• HD document camera 
• Laser engraver

I also worked on my 3d model of the frame for the roaddog printer.

This was rendered using Autodesk 360 render <10min.  I'm new to this program. 

Worked on my roaddog 3d printer today and got a lot done;

1.  Built the  rapps board
2. Mounted the hot bed
3. Mounted all the stepper motors
4. Mounted the power supply
5. Assembled the display enclosure
6. All axis are functional.
7. All rods are in place
8. Started routing wires

Things to do:

1. print end switch brackets
2. mount end switches
3. design display brackets
4. laser etch spirograph
5. place wire into the conduit
6. program controller  
7. cut hotbed glass
8. I'm sure there will be other things

I got all or most of my nuts and bolts from McMaster. I'm heading out to Menards in a few mins to get an organizer for said nuts and bolts plus look for some 3d printing bed springs.  The display cover for my roaddog is currently printing.  These came with the roaddog in black but I've decided to reprint in orange

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I finally got my smooth rods for my roaddog happy day.  No pictures to share, however, I will bring to class and work on it later today.  Also, I just found the Frankie wade extruder on yeggi via Thingiverse.  lots of orange parts have been printed and many more to come.  Thanks,

I leave you with this picture of the bookworm a person I hold dear to my heart

Aaron

Well, my M5 z-rod finally made it.  1000mm it came in a box 1000 times larger than it needed to be.  I'm still waiting on my smooth rod. It back ordered for two suppliers.  Hopefully, it will be here next week then I can continuing working on the mechanical part of the printer.  Next, I'm looking at the small nuts and bolts. On another note I did bring my IIIP printer to the lab for monitoring and got some parts printed for Printz project printer.

 Cheers

aacjr

So I was thinking about what my roaddog 3d printer would print and starting looking and Rhino's Grasshopper.  The reason is because wanted to print a 3d spirograph.
  What I found is that Lynda.com has very good selection of tutorials that start you out at the beginning of Grasshopper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhGG3ra2oiI

So have completed the frame to the point where I need to assemble the smooth rods, however, these rods are on backorder.

The plan was to print the remaining parts in orange PLA however I ran out of orange but I do have a new spool of transparent blue.  Also, I'm actively looking for display case to print.

I also plan to print a Parametric Cable Chain.


Lots of parts to print.

printed printer parts for the roaddog build

I have started the printed parts process and used up all of orange PLA... not good I love that color.  Oh well, I have a new role transparent blue 1.75mm that can't wait to open the bag and print some parts.

Cheers

Got my Melamine Frame Upgrade kit today and started building it at the lab at UWM.  I like what I saw.  It came packaged nicely however the rods were back ordered.  So I got the base put together and I will move on to the y-axis motor mount this evening.  I'm going to bring my own tools to the lab so I can work more efficiently.  Also, I plan to start some of my printed parts this evening.

So the plan is to build the Prusa I3 Rework Road Dog.

here is the frame.



Here is my extruder and all metal hot end.




Next part is to order the smooth rod from McMaster Carr.
Hardware.

I also have my RAMPs 1.4 board and other parts


And the power supply

Plus the (5) stepper motors.

Once I get all the parts in I'll assemble what I can and print the remaining plastic parts.