Progress on Richard
Hello, I'm Erwin! I assist Joost in building our own Cartesian prototyper called Richard (Dawkins). Last week he posted a message with some pictures to show our progress. Today we added the cross...
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LOL! I had a feeling that it would be easy to make the corner attachments for Darwin out of something besides ABS. :-) That looks REALLY good Joost and Erwin!
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Well done! And if you don't mind - I'm going to copy it! That said - you will likely have an issue with friction due to the metal on metal design of the idler bracket in contact with the rod. So...
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excellent! that is really cool. keep up the good work guys. man, at this rate you will be up and printing before me!!! =)
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Offcourse you can copy it - this is "open source engineering", so you should! I have also looked at tubes (had som 12mm lying around, easier to saw than stainless steel, smaller sizes might be too...
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Hey Nathan, You mentioned in a previous post the thing about the trapped nuts in the wooden corner brackets. As written, I had not done that - but will. Using the screws is not working very well; it...
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Hi Joost, As an alternative to trapped nuts in wood you could try the method I used here: [hydraraptor.blogspot.com]. I just drill a hole at right angle to the path of the bolt and fill it with molten...
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Hi Chris, Thanks for the tip! Will definitely try that - as soon as I get my hands on some polymorph. Joost
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what I found On my machine I am working on I am using MDF and had used 2 blocks stacked on top of each other I then had drilled one hole on the corner of all the blocks and inserted a nut and bolt to...
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whats Mendels Squashed frog dimensions please
I am trying to make the Squashed Frog part for Mendel. Other wise know as the y-chassis. Im not confident of the way I have retreved the external dimensions of this DXF file. Its external dimensions...
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Funny, I came up with the same name while cutting it this weekend. But to answer your question, you're OK on the dimensions. It does look small, but I installed it and it fits just fine.
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Great minds think alike Thank you for confirming the dimensions.
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wow i thought of that too (the frog thing)
View ArticleWhere are the pdf files of "making the bed" section of darwin?
Where are the pdf files of "making the bed" section of Darwin building page? [reprap.org] Thanks!!
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Hmm... good question. I hope they haven't been lost during the twiki conversion! Here's the DXFs. I suppose we could use these to create PDFs?
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Here you go: http://reprap.org/wiki/Darwin/AssemblingDarwinMachinery#Print_the_Paper_Bed_Templates (:D Cheers,
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Thanks! Make the bed is the next step to build my Darwin Reprap. Best Regards!
View ArticleLooking for the last official version of Darwin before Mendel in STL form
I thought it would have been here, but all I can find are AOL files. I would like it in STL format if I can get it [reprap.svn.sourceforge.net] Am I missing something?
View Articledrive crasshed need complete plans for darwin
I'm in class learning to be a machinist and I finally got my teacher to ok building a Darwin and maybe a Mendal. :D unfortunatly the drive I had the files stored on crashed with no chance of recovery....
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