My plan really was do do more on the LR4, and convert the LR3 first, but with the current postal strike in play, I’m not getting my V1 parts any time soon.
What I do have though, is about everything for the printer build.
I have the printed parts done, or I believe most of them. Certainly enough to get started. I have the aluminium plate parts. I have the linear rails, a Duet mini 5 control board with the 2 channel expansion (which I don’t actually need because I have a Duet 1LC tool board that has a stepper driver on it. 4 wire Canbus to the hotend.) I have 2020 and 2040 extrusion to build the frame.
I will salvage the power supply, Z rails, heated bed, motors and Hemera from the MP3DPv3. A shame, since I liked that printer, but when the board lost 2 of the fan channels, and the plywood frame is showing its age, it’s time to move on. (For the record, the aluminium 20mm tube was an excellent upgrade from the CF tube for the X span. I may well build another v3, particularly if I end up not using the Hemera in the v5.)
My heated bet is 310mm square, so I had thought to extend the 300mm by 25mm at the rails. Additionally the probe being in front of the hotend means that it normally cannot get to the back edge of the bed. I am considering lengthening the Y axis as well, but maybe this is unnecessary. Well probably it is. My heated bed is one of the dumb ones that mount on 4 posts, too, so some thought into that will be needed.
I plan to make an enclosed frame. Obviously this means CNC machined panels. I don’t know how fast I’ll be working on this. It’s not like I’m in need of another printer. I had considered buying a Flashforge ADM5Pro if the black friday deal was good enough, but they just replaced the $150 CAD coupon with $150 CAD price drop, meaning only cheaper jf I wanted to buy more than one. The non-pro did drop by $20CAD, and I considered it…
Anyway, the journey starts here…