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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
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41142.1 
I really really want a 3D Printer.

Not something for thousands but maybe around the £300 mark. If it's DIY (and therefore cheaper, even better.)

Has anyone here bought or made one? Have access to one?
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41142.2 In reply to 41142.1 
We (friend and i) just got a reprap. Was about 200quid from China (aliexpress), there were a few fixings either missing or seriously under spec (shit nuts instead of locking nuts etc.) but after a few days and about 10 quid in extra bits it was up and running fine.

The kit had all the important parts present and correct, including steppers and driver etc. Well worth the price, even if it's not the greatest printer in the world.

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  koswix     
41142.3 In reply to 41142.2 
That's one of the ones I was looking it. Might be something I buy later this year.

Got any photos of stuff you've made?

Links to extra bits you bought would be useful too, unless they were just standard M type nuts/bolt.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  koswix     
41142.4 In reply to 41142.2 
Also, a part list that you got (or the kit) and seller would be useful!
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41142.5 In reply to 41142.3 
Was just metric standard stuff we already had laying around.

This was the seller

http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6088340631.html

Issues we had were
Missing :
insulated supports for mother board
SSupport for the coil
High temp glue for thermostat

And then some bad nuts.

For the missing parts we cut new ones out of perspex (on an 400 quid aliexpress laser cutter :-D )

Can't recall what glue we used for the thermostat.

Will see of I've any photos of printed stuff.

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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)  
 To:  koswix     
41142.6 In reply to 41142.5 
Can it print me a life?
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Give me liberty or, I dunno, something.
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)     
41142.7 In reply to 41142.6 
Girls love 3D printers, more than they love handbrake turns.

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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)  
 To:  koswix     
41142.8 In reply to 41142.7 
I might need to see some evidence proving that one!
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)     
41142.9 In reply to 41142.8 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2653956/Print-SEX-TOY-Online-generator-lets-choose-shape-height-colour-create-3D-model.html

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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)  
 To:  koswix     
41142.10 In reply to 41142.9 
I should have known!
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)     
41142.11 In reply to 41142.10 
what? that he reads the Daily Mail? Yeah, I know it's disgusting, innit?

truffy.gifbastard by name
bastard by nature

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)     
41142.12 In reply to 41142.11 
The Daily Mail is mercifully unknown outside of your benighted island.

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"Ninety percent of Americans use the Internet. The other ten percent use the banjo."
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 From:  milko  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
41142.13 In reply to 41142.12 
apparently its just as evil website isn't though. Popular all over the damn place, wherever idiots congregate.
milko
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  milko     
41142.14 In reply to 41142.13 
 :-((

We have a similar -ish red top tabloid, The Toronto Sun.

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
41142.15 In reply to 41142.12 
Strictly speaking it's /their/ benighted island. I don't live there anymore. OK, I have the passport, and I do visit on occasion, but I don't miss dogshit-strewn pavements that much that I'd visit more than once a year.

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41142.16 In reply to 41142.1 
I have some pictures but they're too big to upload. Will resize and post tomorrow.

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  koswix     
41142.17 In reply to 41142.16 
Good stuff.

I was looking at the Prusa i3 models the other day. Think that might be my Christmas present. Or I'll end up buying it earlier if I get impatient.
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41142.18 In reply to 41142.1 
Still fiddling with settings and whatnot to get decent prints,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hotg3f9z5q7okl3/2014-08-15%2014.31.38.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvykhmu0eh5e9zx/2014-08-15%2014.32.06.jpg

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  koswix     
41142.19 In reply to 41142.18 
Is it difficult to get things setup and aligned?
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41142.20 In reply to 41142.19 
Just really trial and error for a lot of stuff. And sometimes it randomly gives up mid print, which doesn't help.

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