No, you’re not seeing double…
I wasn’t sure if I should make a new thread or keep adding to the other but this LowRider is going to be miles different from the Bumble so here goes…and oh yes, I’ve got plans for this one too baby. Here’s a tease…I’m going to be using this one in part to help learn some skills I’ll put to use on the 3d print project that happens after the LR32 printing has completed!
Have too much filament laying around doing nothing.
CR10S Pro???
Ha! I’m ashamed to show it here because I feel like it “should be” an MP3DP but I sure do love the massive build area of this thing. And man alive has it ever been reliable for me - for years and years.
Weirdest/best thing of all - it was gifted to me in some real bizarre Covid moment where a “secret santa” gave me the printer and said “print the ear straps and I’ll take care of getting them to where they are needed”. And then he bought another large format printer for a buddy of mine too. AND he paid for all the filament. We must have printed tens of thousands of those straps I’m sure and this CR10 just kept on rolling without any major issue. One burned out hotend fan (hence the orange WAGO but not WAGO things) and I think one replaced print bed after adhesion just got too poor. But that’s it.
No shame at all! I have one I bought new back in 2019ish and until I decided to upgrade the hotend and get busy half way though and never finish it was still a functioning machine and printed very well! I still have it, down in the basement ready to come out of retirement any time its needed lol
Parts are starting to pile up. All of the long prints are done. This is going to be such a fun build!
Blue and brown looks fun!
Just burning up any PLA I have sitting around. Although I’m reluctant to cut open the clear spool for some reason. Not sure what on earth I’m keeping that one around for…odd. I didn’t even know I had it.
Tell ya this much…once the prints are all ready there wil be one last tease posted here and then a possibly lengthy delay while the build takes shape. I won’t spill the beans prematurely on this one like I did the Bumble build. Ha!
Definitely no shame. I still regularly use my Ender 3 V1. I have done a few upgrades to it (Z rails, KevinAkaSam dual z belt and an H2V2S extruder plus Klipper on a Manta E3EZ board)… wait, is it still technically an Ender 3…
I’m through Spool #1 including the partial brown I’d finished off to kick things off. All of the LR32 bits are printed and moving on to their next step. Still three more spools worth of printing to go for this bad boy though! Can’t wait to see it all come together.
Well would you look at that! I already had a new thread started for this bad boy…I must have known it would be special in it’s own right.
I spent a good deal of time soul searching whether I’d continue on the LR3 or reprint the LR4 and decided that I’d carry on with the LR3 build…mostly so that I can refer to it as what I’ve dubbed the “LR32” 
But also because it was already fully printed and I’m inherently lazy.
So since the last post in this thread I have completed the post processing of the printed parts, have finished printing the three spools worth of ancillary parts and will begin finishing those while I, in tandem, begin assembly. I hope to have the machine running by Christmas but not fully finished until into the new year.
I’ve decided to try to build this on an extrusion frame to keep it lightweight and rigid (and I found a Marketplace guy local that has a boatload of extrusion to choose from). This will be the U-shaped skeleton that I believe I’ve mused about in the past on the forum. I will not be building the “docking station” I was contemplating. So essentially this is a LowRider without a table. I’ll just place it over the material to be milled and let it go. It’ll make more sense when you see the machine in action.
The challenge will be keeping the machine and the milling material “connected” to each other but as long as the framework is rigid enough I should be able to lock it to the material mechanically. Maybe think of it like milling a 6" piece of foam. Rather than having a table and lifting the gantry above the material or building a drop table I’ll just put the material on any surface - even the ground - and lift the frame of the machine. For what I’ll be doing, crude levelling is fine, but keeping the machine square is important (as I’ve learned with the LR31). I feel like the machine should be heavy enough to not need to be bolted down to the work surface or staked down to the ground?
Now to transfer pics from the other thread to here for continuity’s sake…
Missing at least one piece that am aware of (not counting the gantry braces). Shoot!
Looks like a bit more sanding to do (maybe). I don’t know how fussy I want to be with this one. It’s more of a learning mechanism for ‘the next thing’ I post-process.
Ever heard of grey PLA? 
Stupid joke aside, I am really interested in the durability of the paint on PLA.
I use one of those plastic primers you get for car bumpers and stuff, then a primer filler, then paint. The only time I’ve had any trouble at all was when I used two different kinds of paint after misreading the can.
Sticks like the proverbial 
to a blanket.
I’ll be interested to see how it holds up as well - especially knowing the sub zero temps this thing will be exposed to. It was a high solids primer - nothing plastic-specific. But I most certainly didn’t stop there…you’ll have to stay tuned to see what became of the primer grey bits. It’ll be like my Christmas gift to everyone here. hahahaha
