Comments on: 3d printer and the Remington Hepburn

By: Another Way to Use 3D Printing – Vehicle Weapons Lockers

Another Way to Use 3D Printing – Vehicle Weapons Lockers — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:08:06 +0000

[…] Chuck of GunLab and his friend Orin have a dream: to wit, bringing a rare and “dead” single-shot design, the Remington Hepburn, back to life. To do this, Chuck got a scrapyard special Remington Hepburn and reverse-engineered the rusty, pitted action into SolidWorks. Then he passed the solid model to Orin, who tested it by 3D printing a model. […]

By: Another Way to Use 3D Printing | WeaponsMan

Another Way to Use 3D Printing | WeaponsMan — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:00:35 +0000

By: Orin

Orin — Tue, 31 May 2016 03:23:20 +0000

Thanks Dan,

I hope the Smoothieboard will work OK for this project and it can control both extruders on the CubeX Duo that I have.
I’ve been in contact with the boards designer and he recommends using Smoothieware firmware and either Cura or Slic3r for the slicer.

Right now I’m trying to learn how to use CircuitMaker to get the interface board designed and made.
It’s a powerful circuit board design program abut a challenge to learn… :>)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:18:35 +0000

I believe we used an Arduino Mega 2560 with a RAMPS 1.4 board, loaded with Repetier. I don’t know why, I wasn’t the one who made that decision.

By: Orin

Orin — Mon, 30 May 2016 23:51:37 +0000

Dan,
Do you remember what controller board you used?
The Smoothieboard looks to be the best choice out there now but I’m always looking….

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 May 2016 22:10:45 +0000

Glad to hear you’re aware of the limitations, and you’re actively working around them. We used to have a CubeX Trio at work, and we got it somewhat functional after doing a complete electronics replacement and swapping out the vertical travel stepper motor. However, we had invested so much time in it at that point that the boss got fed up with it and sold it.

By: Orin

Orin — Mon, 30 May 2016 15:44:16 +0000

@Dan

They are really a POS as originally made but the basic mechanical design is great when compared to other printers. I bought the printer because 1) it was really cheap – $250+shipping – and 2) I can rip out the electronics and replace it with a decent controller and LCD display and 3)replace the printer hot end (nozzle assembly) with a E3D style hot end by making a simple adapter.

I am in the process of designing an interface board that will mount where the original controller mounted, and also provide mounting for the “Smoothieboard” controller. The existing wiring harnesses will plug into the adapter board with no modifications and there will be plugs for jumper connectors between the Smoothieboard and the interface board and it will be plug-and-play if everything goes according to plan.

3D Systems really made a decent controller using a 32 bit 80 MHz microprocessor but turned it into a crippled processor with the firmware and slicing (G code) software that was provided. They apparently spent all of their R&D money on the mechanical design and the firmware and software was an afterthought.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 May 2016 09:46:38 +0000

I wish Orin has nothing but good luck with that printer. It looks like a CubeX printer, and those are not only difficult to get working well, but 3D Systems discontinued them because they did so poorly.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 28 May 2016 05:13:54 +0000

It does take a while to print something out

By: Storm

Storm — Sat, 28 May 2016 02:35:00 +0000

Didnt know printing was so slow!!