LR4 - Ghostrider B2/RC2

When the LR4 Beta was announced, I was pretty stoked since I had been harrassing Ryan for a while then about any news on the update. The only thing I got out of him was the rail size. While pondering what theme the new one should have I stumbled upon Glow-in-the-dark filament and printed the ghost from Mario, Boo, at the end of May when it hit me: The new one is the Ghostrider.

The beta started while I was drinking beer at a Festival, and because @Jonathjon cheated with three printers and had his finished when I got back, I had to hurry after three days of waiting, cranking out parts like a madman and stressing my marriage. :stuck_out_tongue:

Der Froschkönig digging its grave… :frowning:

Ghostrider core in progress.

Core done:

Its guts spilled, Der Froschkönig is being dissected.

A bit of swearing and begging for the Phillet later:

Quick remix of the toolholders because I somehow misplaced my Makita:

First cut in honour of @bitingmidge and his lovely wife Jo:

All of the Z movements are very slow, which I never questioned until Ryan made a comment about it (it’s been resolved now, after three years of me not realizing something was off):

Thermo filament to see where the router gets warm:

Since the MK4 prints even on a very crooked printbed, one plate was badly warped. More PLA to the rescue:

First real project, box for the new bike:

3500mm/min, 6mm DOC with a 6mm two-flute endmill? Easy, says the LR4 (I also used round tabs here which suffer from the same problem that engraving does, so no round tabs for speeds that are faster than Z):

That’s it so far. More to come. I still need to shoot a video of the differences in engraving speed. :slight_smile:

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Great work and great write up. Thanks for all the pics and vids!

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2 1/2 thank you. I broke one lol. And don’t blame me because you have a single slow printer lmao. You could have you a glow in the dark V5!!

Build looks great! I guess when I rebuild with the next round of parts I’ll try to take more pics and start me a build thread.

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I still think it should be gLowrider :wink:

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Started exchanging the Beta core for the RC2 core in preparation for the dust shoe:




Hope to get it done today.

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33secs, 12mm DOC, 4000mm/min (66.6mm/s :metal:). I am afraid to go faster, but it was surprisingly easy. I admit there is a slight overcut at the edges, might be that the endmill is too big.



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Video:

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Nice!

That test needs to be larger for sure. A 100x100 square is a good test. I will get back at it in a couple hours. Accel tuning first then back to cutting.

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A square does not show you though whether the contours in the middle etc. can be cut precisely. And a square is boring. Can we have maybe a LowRider 4 font to cut out? :smiley:

That test logo is going to need to be larger. But for now a 100mm square lets you hit top speed for longer. That test logo will need to be in a 150x150mm square I think.

At 150mm/s to 120mm/s the difference the CAM says is only a few seconds, so to really test Material removal rates we need to move more material.

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Eek, that means playing around with the acceleration settins again. :scream:

I’ll do that shortly.

Different Controller. :sweat_smile:

Side Note: joined the cool three. :joy:

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DANG!!!

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You can rotate it 45 degrees and call it a diamond if that helps. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Time to take away my likes :rofl:

Congrats :slight_smile:

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:baseball:

And yet it is still boring!
:yawning_face:

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First YZ plate done for RC2.

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Ohhh, you’re doing the fancy top/bottom fill patterns.

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Yeah, for the side plates and the wheel parts, those are the ones you see the underside of. :smiley:

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