Nophead’s Mendel1 has produced 15 sets of Mendel parts, and is hard at work on it’s 16th!!! My understanding is that it would take about 60 hours to print a full set of Mendel parts. I have to admire anyone who prints up Mendel/Mini-Mendel parts because of the amount of dedication it would take to do so. After spending 90 hours2 printing something, I don’t know that I could part with it.
My point is that we really have guys like Nophead, Spacexula, and Cyrozap3 to thank for cranking out parts and pushing replication forward.
I hereby bestow upon you gentlemen the Duggar medal of continuous replication.
It’s ok, just do a find and replace in your WordPress database (that’s how I fixed my blog when I changed domains). Also, I didn’t even notice that you had been spelling my name wrong until you mentioned it!
Oh, and just a correction, I’ve only printed half of a Mendel set and half of a Mendel Mini set. My MakerBot just doesn’t like build plates.
Where did you get 16th from? My Mendel (with no name) is currently slaving away on child no 34, while I am at work, I hope.
34th set! Amazing. I printed 8 sets and then stopped to assemble our own Mendel. I’m guessing by the time MakerFaire is over the prices for Mendel parts will be so low I probably won’t mess with printing more sets.
@nophead: Hoo boy. This is just my day for printing retractions/corrections. I saw your post from July pop up in my RSS feed last night. http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2010/07/broken-bracket-breakdown.html Apparently in internet and RepRap self-replication time, that was ages time.
Wait a second… You’ve gone from 16 sets to 34 sets in a little over a month? If each set takes ~60 hours, how many machines do you you have churning out parts?
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@Cyrozap: Okay, I fixed up the spellings old skool style. Including a totally insincere apology. :)
@JohnA: Dude, 8 sets is pretty incredible. Which MakerFaire are you going to? Honestly, I don’t see how printing sets is terribly cost effective right now – I just assume people are printing them up because they care about RepRap – not that they’re in it for the money.
@MakerBlock,
It takes about 48 hours for me to print a Mendel as I use 0.6mm filament for the larger parts and print the gears and pulleys with 0.375mm filament on HydraRaptor in parallel. So I complete 3 machines a week if I am not away from home and nothing breaks. It does take up virtually all my spare time and my wife does a lot too.
Currently printing no 35.