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DIY 3d printers made from wood

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 17 November 2013 0 komentar

Wood is very cheap. Wood is easy to obtain. Wood is easy to work with and many shaping technologies are available. It comes in many forms with different properties from flexibility to strength. It is renewable resource. It can be easily recycled.
There were entire generations of printers like Ultimaker based on laser cut plywood, but full wood was never in fashion. probably because it is not high-tech and not self-replicating.
I would like to see more projects with wooden parts. I like the texture and natural aesthetics of wood contrasted to technology.

Here are some designs that use wooden parts, some are fully functional, some are under development:

Wood frame Mendel90

Mendel90 is great design and it is often built with wooden frame. One of the great success stories with wooden parts. Design is custimizable based on your input and generates paper printable cutting and drilling guides for the frame.

Adapto 3d printer

It can have aluminum beams and low cost wood frame.

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/11/adapto-diy-3d-printer.html

Ikea RepRap

While surfing around I found this reprap with wooden / particleboard frame (maybe made from Ikea furniture). Further information is unavailable. Let me know if you have any additional information about this printer.

http://aeons.phrenzy.org/~berserk/reprap/printer/

Gunstrap

Source: RepRap wiki

The Gunstrap is a plywood repstrap that is based on the Mantis CNC design. It has a build area of 200x200x100mm (comparable to the Mendel) and is employs a heated build platform and a heated build chamber. Unlike other wood based repstrap's, no ball bearings are required for its construction, excluding the extruder and all parts can be obtained from scrapped printers and scanners. In addition, its build chamber can be heated up to 100 degrees Celsius as most stepper motors are contained out side of the build chamber and no thermoplastic is used in its construction. The only stepper motor within the build chamber is the extruder stepper motor which is actively cooled using a peltier.

Advantages

Has a very low build cost (around $50USD), excluding the cost of the electronics.
Does not require any bearings apart from the extruder.
Can be constructed with only a hack saw, drill, screwdriver and epoxy resin adhesive.
Has a larger build area as compared to the Mantis 9.1
Due to its fold open construction it is easy to access for cleaning and changing tool heads.
Uses a heated build chamber which has been seen to improve the quality of prints for large objects.

Disadvantages

Requires active thermal management in order to keep the extruder stepper motor at a safe operating temperature as its located in the heated build chamber.
Due to the use of stainless steel sleeves instead of ball bearings, this design will ware slightly with time.
Due to the design of the zaxis the gunstrap may not be able to achieve the same resolution as a Mendel.
This design requires more parts to be fabricated than the original [[Mantis 9.1] in order to accommodated the heated build chamber.
Requires the procurement of stainless steel shafts, stepper motors, belts, ect from old printers and scanners.
Can not currently print any of its own parts.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Gunstrap

WoodRap

http://reprap.org/wiki/WoodRap

http://repraprock.blogspot.com/

RepStrap

Many bootstraped RepStraps are made from wood:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/10/repstrap-bootstrapped-3d-printer.html

There is well documented Wolfstrap from Germany.

http://reprap.org/wiki/WolfStrap

There are several other designs at:

http://reprap.org/wiki/Category:Wood

World needs YOU to use more wood in 3d printing!

Update:

Here are some new Delta printers with wooden frames:

DeltaTrix with detailed build instructions:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/12/deltatrix-3d-printer-with-detailed.html

Custom Delta made from Ikea furniture pieces:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/12/custom-delta-3d-printer-built-from-ikea.html

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