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The Cerberus itself is based on the Rostock, of course: the first delta 3D printer. | The Cerberus itself is based on the Rostock, of course: the first delta 3D printer. | ||
| − | I let the pictures speak for themselves for now | + | I mostly let the pictures speak for themselves for now |
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| + | [[File:first_day.jpg|480px]] | ||
| + | This was rather hard; the used wood is a very hard and tough kind. And it's only when you need a 60 degree angle, you find that none of the tools have any setting for it, or they are so coarse/imprecise as to be completely useless... Examples: I wanted to '''buy''' a mitre box with a 60 degree cut-- unobtainable. And our mitre saw has a 30 degree angle, but manages nothing over 45 degrees... Oh well. | ||
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[[File:coated_bearings.jpg|640px]] | [[File:coated_bearings.jpg|640px]] | ||
| − | [[File:third_day.jpg| | + | Coating specially crafted by Steve Graber (the designer of the Cerberus) on his monstrous CNC lathe. These are at the heart of the vertical movement system used in the cerberus. Get these ones wrong, and gone is precision & accuracy, and gone is silent movement. |
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| + | [[File:second_day.jpg|480px]] | ||
| + | Decided to go with wood instead of printing in PLA, for a host of reasons; Our other printer is in a state of constant testing, rebuilding, breaking and fixing and not deemed production ready yet. Secondly these printed a parts are so massive I'd need to babysit our printer for 48 hours or more. And third, adaptation from imperial to metric proves hard to do, since my extrusions also have a slightly different profile, so it needs a lot more than just scaling up by 105%, sadly. | ||
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| + | [[File:third_day.jpg|480px]] | ||
| + | After retrieving my router and making the mounts for the three steppers, I could now bolt it in place in a more permanent fashion. Not too happy with the extrusions not being 100,0% parallel, but we're getting there. Robustness though, is already very good now. | ||
Revision as of 02:09, 14 May 2013
| Projects | |
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| Participants | Ultratux |
| Skills | Woodworking, precision assembly, electronics, fine mechanic |
| Status | Active |
| Niche | Mechanics |
| Purpose | World domination |
Cerberups, a Delta-type 3D printer. It is a slight modification to a US design, the Cerberus. The modification were mainly necessary to adapt from imperial to metric, but also because other choices were made in type of materials (ie. wood instead of PLA). The Cerberus itself is based on the Rostock, of course: the first delta 3D printer.
I mostly let the pictures speak for themselves for now
This was rather hard; the used wood is a very hard and tough kind. And it's only when you need a 60 degree angle, you find that none of the tools have any setting for it, or they are so coarse/imprecise as to be completely useless... Examples: I wanted to buy a mitre box with a 60 degree cut-- unobtainable. And our mitre saw has a 30 degree angle, but manages nothing over 45 degrees... Oh well.
Coating specially crafted by Steve Graber (the designer of the Cerberus) on his monstrous CNC lathe. These are at the heart of the vertical movement system used in the cerberus. Get these ones wrong, and gone is precision & accuracy, and gone is silent movement.
Decided to go with wood instead of printing in PLA, for a host of reasons; Our other printer is in a state of constant testing, rebuilding, breaking and fixing and not deemed production ready yet. Secondly these printed a parts are so massive I'd need to babysit our printer for 48 hours or more. And third, adaptation from imperial to metric proves hard to do, since my extrusions also have a slightly different profile, so it needs a lot more than just scaling up by 105%, sadly.
After retrieving my router and making the mounts for the three steppers, I could now bolt it in place in a more permanent fashion. Not too happy with the extrusions not being 100,0% parallel, but we're getting there. Robustness though, is already very good now.
