Who else is getting one of the Folger Tech 2020 i3 Prusas? (Page 1 of 3)

It's tempting, but when I get paid this thursday I'll probably order one of the kossel kits instead. The folger tech stuff looks pretty decent.

Remember kids, always run two 3d printers. That way, when one breaks you can use the other one to fix it!

Pfft, if you build it, it counts as yours. You can tell him a guy on the internet says so.

Building is my absolute favorite part of what I do. Starting with nothing and ending up with something is pretty much my favorite joy in life. I absolutely hate, however, when I get a kit for something and it's missing parts.

Tomorrow is my birthday, and I think I will celebrate by ordering a kossel kit. Here's hoping both of our projects go well!

Which kossel kit are you getting?, because I am trying to find a good 3D printer to buy lol

And Happy B-Day

the 2020 i3 kit should be here Friday... looking forward to it!

Turns out my mom bought me the kossel kit for my birthday yesterday! Time to build a printer to fix my solidoodle!

She really is! I was honestly shocked; I didn't even tell her I wanted it until a couple weeks ago and I though it would take longer for Folgertech to put the kit together. As soon as I heard the aluminum 2020s slide around in the box I just lit up.

I will have to do a proper unboxing article later. The box looked absolutely destroyed when it came in and tonight I have to inventory everything and see what is broken.

Oh, and thanks for the birthday wishes everybody! I will print out that cake once I have it set up (before calibration, even! Let's see how wonky the default settings are) and give a full report on my thoughts on the kit.

I shouldn't have said before calibration, I meant more before dialing it in. Like when you've only math hammered your steps/mm instead of measuring, etc. I love that first print where you learn your 25x25 box is actually 20x32.

The ABS mounts look pretty sturdy, but there really isn't anything to vent the heat out of those motors. If it wasn't so busy, I'd throw some steel in the 5 axis at work and see about making the world's toughest kossel mounts As it is, I will take your suggestion to heart and be really careful about tuning.

I have heard some people have resolution issues with kossels at 1/16 microstepping. Is it worth putting in some of my spare 1/32 drivers in there or does the 1/16 work well for you?

Congrats on the awesome birthday present, Baron! what a great mom!

Our 2020 Prusa i3 kit arrived yesterday! YAY! and let me tell ya, it was difficult for me to not rip the box open right away - but I didn't, I let the other half open it up when he got home and start sorting thru the stuff.

We sat down last night and went thru the build guide and all the pieces/parts, taking inventory to make sure everything was there, bagging and marking all the screws, nuts and other hardware, and guess what? there are 2 very important pieces missing! the M5 threaded Z rods were not in the box!

so email was sent off to Folgertech late last night. As of this moment there hasn't been a response yet, but they haven't opened for the day yet, either.... so we shall see.

In the meantime, the other half has found some M5 threaded rod locally (shock of shocks in this small town!) but we need to make sure it is of the correct pitch before purchasing (if needed)...gonna wait and see what Folgertech says before doing anything.

Overall, despite the missing Z rods, the kit looks pretty good. Printed parts look decent, although I suspect they are PLA (shiny) and not very dense - compared one of my test PLA lawsy carriages to one of their pieces of a similar size - mine is definitely heavier.

The nice thing is they make the STLs for the printed parts readily available, so I see some high density ABS parts being printed out in the very near future (starting today? LOL) we are thinking of making this one in Lime Green. (the SD4 is purple & yellow) yeah, black is boring! LOL

The motors in this kit are nice - pretty impressive if the markings are correct - 50oz/in of holding torque - on the smaller ones.

Kinda of looking forward to starting assembly - don't need the threaded rods right away so I can easily start on the base and get the ball rolling...

It could have been a lot worse! my threaded rod was taped with the carbon fiber rods, so at least I knew where to look for it. We all make mistakes

Yep, I know what the rod is for and i have a plethora of cutting tools at my disposal. I just have to make sure I have some spare nuts for deburring and it should be good.

And it LIVES! Flashed firmware last night and did a few test moves. very different than what I am used to with the SD4, for sure, LOL. but it moves! yay!