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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: 800mm printer help]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>bnj wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>For this kind of specific dimensions, I would go the DIY route... Such big printers does exist, but are expensive.</p><p>You can go for a modified solidoodle with extended Y carriage, and find a bed that will be big enough. You could make an aluminium surfaced plate, and stick 4 bed heaters underneeth it, controled by 4 SSR on the same card output. But it will be a huge work. You&#039;ll have to go for a bigger rods dimension, 12 mm or 16 mm to carry that weight, and your machine will be slow.</p><p>Now with all that, you&#039;ll have to design and make work a new Z axis system, for that monster plate, not talking about the numerous powersupply you&#039;ll need to heat 800 mm of bed...</p><p>All in all, it might be worse considering slicing your prints into small ones that you can glue together...</p></blockquote></div><p>+1<br /><a href="http://store.makerbot.com/replicator-z18">http://store.makerbot.com/replicator-z18</a> prints 18 inches, but costs $6,500. Pretty swanky though! <br />It sounds like you could do your project in 2 sections and just run a threaded rod through the stock and bond the two peices with some acetone if using ABS.</p><p>But if you wanted it printed all in one piece, then yes. It would be far cheaper to build your own printer.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2014-05-12T19:23:25Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>For this kind of specific dimensions, I would go the DIY route... Such big printers does exist, but are expensive.</p><p>You can go for a modified solidoodle with extended Y carriage, and find a bed that will be big enough. You could make an aluminium surfaced plate, and stick 4 bed heaters underneeth it, controled by 4 SSR on the same card output. But it will be a huge work. You&#039;ll have to go for a bigger rods dimension, 12 mm or 16 mm to carry that weight, and your machine will be slow.</p><p>Now with all that, you&#039;ll have to design and make work a new Z axis system, for that monster plate, not talking about the numerous powersupply you&#039;ll need to heat 800 mm of bed...</p><p>All in all, it might be worse considering slicing your prints into small ones that you can glue together...</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2014-05-12T17:54:13Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[800mm printer help]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Can someone help me. <br />I am interest in getting a 3d printer I would like to make Rifle stocks for a hobby. I is hard to modify a printer ?&nbsp; I need&nbsp; 200mm x&nbsp; 200mm x 800mm. Who makes a printer this size and at what price. <br />What is the best product&nbsp; for printing something like this.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2014-04-17T21:10:27Z</updated>
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