See! Spacexula has discovered the hard way she’s a wicked temperamental woman!
Shattered acrylic plastruder… Yikes! I printed up one of Zaggo’s Prinstruders – but it appears to be optimized for an early MakerBot Batch 5 with large/small dinos. If I wanted to use my printstruder I would need to pick up some of the extra parts required and essentially print up a small dino.1 However, I think I’d like to start replacing parts out of my MakerBot with printed parts so that I can keep the originals as backups. However, I have a feeling a prinstruder out of ABS is going to be much more robust/resilient than the layered acrylic plastruder. What do I need?
- 2x 626 ball bearings.
- 4x M4 bolts, 60mm long
- 4x M4 nuts (optionally two of them as wingnuts)
- 1x M6 bolt (30mm long)
- 1x M6 nut
- 3x M3 bolts (30mm long)
- 3x+ M6 washers
- 3x+M3 washers
- 4x M4 washers
In addition to these parts, I’ll also need to measure my ‘bot for a small dino equivalent. Since my extruder barrel is out of commission and the plastruder is just lying on the platform, this is as good a time as any to measure it up.
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