Oak Prusa

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Anyone going to make an oak Mp3dp?

is the oak of the prusa just an enclosure or is it the frame?

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Kinda both.

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Now I don’t want to be some sort of heretic, but the cost of the oak is probably better put somewhere else! Construct 3d have a nice composite in bamboo, which they have done deliberately to break up the vibration frequencies.

I’m thinking - you could do a nice walnut burl version hydro dipped and no one would know it wasn’t real! :grin:

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So, I think Ryan said the wood cages for mp3dp were, man i cannot remember how he said it, but were varying due to climates, but wow i never thought about resonance. Interesting. Aluminum being light could in fact cause resonance, interesting. The speeds they are getting to, so many things are coming to light.

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Quite a while back, the local makerspace had a pair of wooden Flashforge creator pro printers. We eventually upgraded other printers from the farm to to the metal ones. The wooden ones were preferred by the community for a long time because for prints that had resonance issues, (and strangely, for flexibles) they were just better.

We can now do magic with accelerometers, but it’s always better to damp out the resonances than to try and control around them.

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I requested a quote on the oak one and did it from my non-Prusa registered address…
The answer was like: too many people want it, we can’t offer it to everyone, stay tuned. :disappointed_face:

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Make one using the open source design?

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Did I miss the design being open source for the Oak?

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I cannot even see the inside of one anywhere, cannot believe you missed it.

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Oh stop! :rofl: Here’s all the information you need to build one in just a few minutes of clip - the original Oak one was made in Bamboo as a joke.

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Ok. So it is just a core one in a fancy cabinet! It does not use it as the frame. Bummer! Lol

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Yep! The coreone has a really nice one-piece ring beam - you could mount it on anything I reckon as long as you had the base parallel. It’s actually a very neat solution - note that the oak and bamboo versions have moved the electronics to the top I think, but that’s about it!