Monday, February 27, 2017

Printer progress, Saturn V progress

The only progress I made on the printer this weekend was work out the location for the 12-volt DC and 24-volt DC  power supplies.  I need to locate the 12-volt to 24 volt SCR for the heated bed as well.  So as you can see I'm working my way into the electrical end of the printer project.  The next step is to put 12-volt DC power on the mini-rambo board to make certain it will power-up.

I printed the parts for the launch escape assembly yesterday and plan to assemble those parts tonite.
Getting there is the best part!





Friday, February 24, 2017

Working on the Gantry print.  Here the 10 parts from last week.  I'm planning to work down the list of red parts first then move on to the gray parts, again
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Command Module and Lunar Module Adapter assembly

As the title of the post states the Command Module and Lunar Module Adapter assembly are 90% complete see the attached pictures.  I plan to complete the assembly this weekend and move on to the S-IVB stage (i.e. third stage) assembly on Sunday.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Saturn V F1 Engine progress

Most of the parts are printed.  Of the parts that are not printed are parts that will not print on my roaddog so I will need to print them on one of my two P111 at home.  I also plan to start assembling some of the F1 and the command module today.  I'll blog on that progress as well.

Printer project progress

Note this post shows the progress made on the large format printer.

The mechanical is complete which includes all the printed parts. Assembled parts;

stepper motors
end switches
extruder
hot-end
x, y and z drive assembled
hot bed
24 volt DC power supply
12 volt DC power supply
















What to do next---
mount mini rambo board (MRB)
wire to (MRB)
program Marlin into (MRB)
shorten wire runs
place wires into the conduit
tune the printer