Two Prusa Printers to give to the Makerspace

[ToddGow]

I have four 3D Printers at home and I don’t really use my 2 Prusa MK3s that much. I would like to donate them to the Dallas MakerSpace. I only live about 30 minutes from the Dallas Makerspace location and I can drop them off. Can someone help me with this? @themitch22

[HankCowdog]

@Team_3D_Fab

[David_A_Tucker]

Hi! I’m a Makerspace member.

Could you please donate one to me for a month or so, before you donate it to the Makerspace?

I’d love to play around with one. I’ve been thinking of getting one for a while.

I’ve been using them in my Aluminoids project:

http://aluminoids.com/

My phone number is 9729556836.

Thanks!

[themitch22]

Would gladly accept the donation for these two prusa mk3’s. Please DM me @ToddWilks and we can find a time to accept it.

@David_A_Tucker once its a dms asset, I wouldn’t want it going outside campus but I’m sure there will be plenty of opportunity to use it.

[jast]

@themitch22

Please DM me @ToddWilks

Insufficient TL at the moment for Todd to PM/DM…

[David_A_Tucker]

Given that Mitch wants them for the 'space, it’s inappropriate for me to intercept your donation – even if it’s only temporary.

I withdraw my request and thank you for your offer.

I’ll explore them at the 'space, but regrettably it’ll have to wait until after I’m vaccinated/immunized. I was hoping to get an earlier start, but oh well . . .

[Bill]

@David_A_Tucker

Could you please loan donate one to me for a month or so, before you donate it to the Makerspace?

Fixed that for you…

Maybe a deal can be worked out for David to borrow one before it is donated?

[Bill]

@jast

@themitch22

Please DM me @ToddWilks

Insufficient TL at the moment for Todd to PM/DM…

I primed the pump by DMing both Todd and Mitch…

[lukeiamyourfather]

The kits are worth every penny. If you’re interested in using a printer regularly at home, I highly recommend it.

Dallas Makerspace Show & Tell - August 2018

I assembled a Prusa i3 MK3 kit. It’s been a while since I made something just for fun so it was very refreshing to do. [IMG_20180721_222033] [IMG_20180725_002349] [IMG_20180725_012132] Random note, torque screw drivers are awesome and I had no idea they existed before this project. I was having trouble getting the frame to be perfectly square. Turns out I was over torquing the fasteners causing the frame to warp (thanks Prusa forums for the help). With a torque screw driver I was able to …

Dallas Makerspace Show & Tell - January 2019

I printed half of a Sierpinski octahedron with six levels. It turned out very nice! If you want to print one too the file is on Thingiverse (not my design). I made it 200mm which is bigger than the original design and I used Hilbert curve top and bottom layers. Why not go all in on fractals? It took around 152 hours to print, used around 700 grams of filament, and it took around 20 minutes to slice with a beefy computer. I was worried about printing a 297MB G-code file from an SD card but it …

I also have a Prusa Mini. Still great but the i3 MK3S is wroth the extra money in my opinion.

[kbraby]

You happen to remember what the torque specs are for those portions of the frame? Mine is fairly close, but I might try again if I ever get close to that far torn down for service.

They really are a good build, and quite good print quality from day 1. Sadly the printer won’t keep stats when you don’t print from the SD card, but I’m averaging over 12 hours per day printing since it was assembled in early December.

[lukeiamyourfather]

From memory, 35 in-lb? Or around that. It was near what the Husky brand driver could do.

[John_Marlow]

@themitch22

Please DM me … at_ToddWilks and we can find a time to accept it.

Did you mean to tag @ToddGow instead?

[Lordrook]

While you can get a far superior Prusa for around $750, the Creality Ender 3 Pro is super affordable and a pretty solid starter machine @ $200 at Microcenter in Richardson.