Day 83/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. The mosaic is back and I'm gone for a bit!

Day 82/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Almost ready to run but not quite.

I've seen a metal plate in some people's builds. I asked Rick who founded MakerGear about it and he didn't have any real recollection of what the deal was. It's not going to make it that much thicker. Just need to use smaller clips, etc.

Day 81/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Old Printer, New Parts, New problems, Who would've guessed?

Day 79/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Taz 1.0 Parts confirmed. Lower those PCB bed temps!

Day 78/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. We're back and making up for it... Maybe.

Anything newer likely has alot of value to companies that need certification like UL and operating lights out. I haven't kept up with what certs they go for but they are one of the few companies that bothers.

I quite often see 1-3 go for $100-200 which for what they are is expensive but the farms that still run the 2 and 3 it's a great deal and they go quick. The 3 was widely disliked and pretty sure I've seen quite a lot of them tossed instead of sold.

Day 75/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. What if we couldn't legally collect old printers?

Day 74/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Time lapse only.

Day 73/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware

Day 72/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Out of town timelapses. Deal hunting newer hardware in TX.

Day 71/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Boring episode, current events, repairs, new printers coming!

Day 70/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. 3 Generations of MakerBot at the same time! #3dprinting

Day 68/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. One last Thing-O-Matic test before going back to the Cupcake.

Day 67/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. #Makerbot Thing-O-Matic on Sailfish. #3dprinting

Day 66/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Thing-O-Matic Firmware Update!

Day 65/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Returning to the root of the project. Pain and suffering.

Day 64/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. New acquisitions in!

Day 63/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Cupcake printing Gridfinity parts?

Day 62/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. We're back live! First time using the single extruder replicator.

Day 61/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. That's not CoreXY and that's not reverse CoreXY either!

Day 60/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. What was your first printer?

Day 59/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. We read comments while I assume everyones a dude, my bad... I caught myself while editing captions but it's almost 2 am and can't rerecord this one.

Day 58/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. The Impossible Tour?

Yeah I'm not sure if Flash Print 5 functions on Apple silicon. Marlin is also an option. I have rough write ups for Marlin or Klipper configs I need to polish and post at some point along with literally every other printer in the collection lol.

I've only seen 2 i3 MK1s so far. I let Pooch from Repkord have the one I would have acquired. Frame wise it's essentially the same as the MK2. But the MK3 replaces the threaded Y rods with 30mm extrusions. We have a MK0 era 3mm build that has been updated with MK2 and MK3 parts but keeping it 3mm.

Nothing necessarily replaced anything at any given point in time. But the first few RepRap printers were threaded rod frames. Very quickly the majority of sold kits were plywood. From 2012 onward it was a pretty healthy mix. But current i3 descendents using threaded rod? Would love some examples.

Not on anything decent after 2017. Prusa i3 MK3 has no threaded rod. Creality, Sovol, Sunlu, Tevo, etc all used extrusion frames for their i3s. MendelMax, Lulzbot, etc went extrusion very early on. Threaded rod Mendel's have way too much side to side movement.

Day 57/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Second day of caption testing and time lapses.