Posts made by Kayjay

@Phaedrux Sorry for the late reply, you wouldn't believe how busy I've been.

Yep, I posted on E3D Bigbox forum without success but my last look for responses was 5 or 6 days ago, there may be some answers now !

I was thinking about pulling out the Duet equipment, putting RAMPS into Bigbocks in its place and selling each as separate entities. Duet and PanelDue as one and the printer as the other. I wonder which will sell first and for the most ... no, no need to wonder, the Duet will win hands down

So that's my next project, at the moment I'm ultra busy listing, packing and visiting the courier drop off shop. Once I've got rid of most of my gear I'll spend some time one the Bigbox modifications.

@Veti You seem to have completely misunderstood my message. If you'd asked instead of just stating that Bigbox moved away from acrylic for a reason. Yes, they did stop using acrylic, it was garbage but at the sane time they also used plywood which was extremely successful. Mine is made of ply and has never given any trouble except from the automatic software creator adding files that it shouldn't have. The files added were meant for the mini kossel and stopped the Bigbox from homing. After an enormous amount of work from Ian for which I was tremendously grateful, he found that it was down to a software problem and nothing wrong with either the Duet or the Bigbox.

Leading on from this it proved that my plywood Bigbox was an amazing piece of equipment and still is. The problem is that your comments have made a lot of potential customers who may have bought my machine turn away and in some case to an Annet ?????? oh boy'
This is Particularly Frederick. Just to let you know Frederick that Veti wasn't in possession of all the facts. Frederic, if you are interested in buying the Plywood Bigbox with Duet 2 Ethernegt and with a brand new unfitted 7" Paneldue then please get in touch with me. We can discuss prices. A comment another poster made about. Prices are what people want to pay and what seller want to accept but the eventually meet in the middle. It's a system that works very, very well, much better than going to auctions.

@Phaedrux Ahh so sorry, I've also been given that one too although it is very good. One I follow an awful lot because he's about my age, he suffers the same illness conditions as I do which have helped him immensely, that is depression and anxiety. Both are high on my medication list from my local doc. The Vlog that Andrew produces is Tales from the Swans Neck, which I think I may have mentioned already but it's thew name for the tiller.

I do appreciate all the help though, you guys are a godsend, not just n 3d printing but on lots of other stuff too !!

@zapta Thanks but I've already been given that link. It is really good though so thanks very much for thinking of me

@Phaedrux Not sure about that, I don't have any toddlers but there was an amusing occasion in 1978 when myself, my wife and my 3 year old daughter were hiring a boat for a couple of weeks. Every time Lyndsey ( my daughter) saw some ducks or in fact any water bird she ran below grabbed a loaf of bread and started throwing it to them saying 'Ere yar duckses eat yer butties" and just in case your a southerner or rather not a north-westener it means "Here you are ducks, eat your sandwiches". We had to laugh so much each time she did it, in fact we bought an extra four loaves of bread for her each time we were shopping... it was so funny.

@Phaedrux Nice one, I hadn;t thought of that. I'll go and take a look.

@jay_s_uk Nice suggestion Jay and I'm a very generous guy normally but as things are at the moment I need to raise every penny I can. For one my bank is screaming at me to make my funds look a bit more like they should so as much as I's like to give the Bigbox away as a gift I just cant spare the cash if you follow me. Thanks for the suggestion though, in normal circumstances I would jump at it.

Keith

Oh well it looks like I'll have to put it on Fleabay. Other thoughts I had was to sell the Duet 2 and PanelDue to anyone interested on here and sell the basic Bigbox on Ebay. I just don't know what to do. Obviously I don't want to give it away but on the other hand it's way, way too big to have on a narrowboat. Does anyone have any good ideas that may help me dispose of it. Please remember that it's made of plywood and not the dreaded acrylic (I am so glad I chose ply when crowdfunding it). As I mentioned earlier I could sell the Duet parts and fit the Bigbox with a RAMPS system, I have got so many of those I could buy shares Can anyone offer thoughts on that way of doing things?
Keith

@zapta It looks interesting. I've been following a vlogger called Andrew who has a vlog call Tales from the Swans Neck which is the name for the tiller ( did I already mention that earlier, sorry if I did)

@fcwilt Hi Frederick, Yes, Constant cruisers can moor anywhere for free for up to two weeks then they have to move on. Regarding work, I don't have a problem with that, I'm 68, I retired 18 years ago, it's been the best 18 years of my life. I did miss my workmates at first but being a landlubber I could see a lot of them either visiting homes or in the pub. In the future it'll be kless so but I'm sure I'm going to make new friends. There is a chap that does a Vlog on youtube called Tales from The Swans Neck (which is the name for the tiller) and he has made dozens of new friends, people he sees regularly as he travels around. It's going to be a wonderful life for my final years, I have no intention of ever buying a house again

@fcwilt Haha ... yep, moving there for the fun of moving about the country. It is also cheaper living, epecially for constant cruisers coz there are no mooring fees which can save a couple of grand a year, theres no council tax either for constant movers and being alone living on a narrowboat is just heaven, me and my Nintendo Switch and my X-Box. It's an easy and blissful life, summer is gorgeous, winter is ok the boats can run on either diesel central heating or gas central heating, the former being cheaper. I can't wait, roll on springtime The other thing is the bow room is usually fitted with a double bed, king sized no unfortunately, it's something I'll have to get used to, I have a kingsized myself at the mo.

@oliof Location doesn't really matter, I live near Manchester but I'm happy to deliver to just about anywhere in England or Wales, maybe even Scotland provided the agreed purchase price was enough to allow me to cover fuel.

To be honest I'd ignore the comments about then Bigbox not being very good, perhaps the acrylic version wasn't good but my ply version has served me well, very well.

The only reason I'm selling is because I'm selling my house and moving onto a narrowboat so 3d printing is dead in the water so to speak.

For thos wondering where I am, I live in Denton which is very close to Stockport on the M60. The price that is reasonableto some and not others is well just a moot point, it can't be decided upon until someone actually makes what they think is a reasonable offer, I can then say yep, that's great or I could say could you go a little higher. That is the whole point of haggling, there are very good examples of how to do it on BBC tv every weekday lunchtime. I'm not putting a starting price on it myself because I don't want to frighten anyone away in case they think it's too much but it is installed with a Duet 2 and I also have a BRAND NEW 7" PanelDUE to go with it that I've never used but I can assure those that call the Bigbox that the Ply version is an excellent machine, it failed because of the acrylic side of things.

@Veti It's not acrylic, it's plywood, much, much better than acrylic.

This machine is in good working order. If anyone is interested in buying it please make me a reasonable offer via private messaging and we can discuss it. If there are any questions then please ask them here. I'll post some photos shortly, at the moment I'm not with it so I can't take any pics. Rather stupid l I know, I should have done those first before I posted this ! Anyway, such is life

Just one more point, I haven;t actually fitted the PanelDue so basically it's brand, brand new ! I've been using the printer via normal browser interface.

I have a very genuine reason for selling which I'll explain to any interested parties.

@droftarts Not done the Z probe trigger yet, I'll make that next on the list. Calibrating the extruder was on my list though but thanks for the reminder. I'll use the forum for any further questions, though I think I'm very near done so if there is anything else I'll probably find the topic with a search. Thanks for everything Ian, I am very grateful and you learnt a little yourself too

@droftarts Right I see. I got them in the wrong place, I put the M671 in the Drives section. It seems to work though but I'll move it to the Z probe section. I had a read up about G29 and it's use, I should move it after G28 I think.

@droftarts The two files as discussed

; General preferences
G90                                     ; send absolute coordinates...
M83                                     ; ...but relative extruder moves
M550 P"Bigbox1"                         ; set printer name

; Network
M552 P0.0.0.0 S1                        ; enable network and acquire dynamic address via DHCP
M586 P0 S1                              ; enable HTTP
M586 P1 S0                              ; disable FTP
M586 P2 S0                              ; disable Telnet

; Drives
M569 P0 S1                              ; physical drive 0 goes forwards
M569 P1 S1                              ; physical drive 1 goes forwards
M569 P2 S0                              ; physical drive 2 goes backwards
M569 P3 S1                              ; physical drive 3 goes forwards
M584 X0 Y1 Z2:4 E3                      ; set drive mapping
M671 X-35:235 Y0:0 S0.5 				; leadscrews at left (connected to Z) and right (connected to E1) of X axis
M350 X16 Y16 Z16 E16 I1                 ; configure microstepping with interpolation
M92 X160.00 Y360.00 Z400.00 E304.00     ; set steps per mm
M566 X480.00 Y480.00 Z24.00 E300.00     ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 X9000.00 Y9000.00 Z360.00 E1500.00 ; set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 X750.00 Y750.00 Z100.00 E5000.00   ; set accelerations (mm/s^2)
M906 X1300 Y1300 Z1300 E800 I30         ; set motor currents (mA) and motor idle factor in per cent
M84 S30                                 ; Set idle timeout

; Axis Limits
M208 X0 Y0 Z0 S1                        ; set axis minima
M208 X300 Y200 Z200 S0                  ; set axis maxima

; Endstops
M574 X1 Y1 S1                           ; Set active high endstops
M574 Z1 S2                              ; Set endstops controlled by probe

; Z-Probe
M558 P1 H5 F120 T6000                   ; Set Z probe type to unmodulated and the dive height + speeds
G31 P500 X-25 Y0 Z2.5                    ; Set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger height
M557 X15:275 Y15:175 S20                ; Define mesh grid

; Heaters
M305 P0 T100000 B4725 C7.060000e-8 R4700 ; set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 0
M143 H0 S120                            ; set temperature limit for heater 0 to 120C
M305 P1 X200            		; set PT100 for heater 1
M143 H1 S320                            ; set temperature limit for heater 1 to 320C

; Fans
M106 P0 S0 I0 F500 H-1                  ; set fan 0 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off
M106 P1 S1 I0 F500 H1 T45               ; set fan 1 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned on

; Tools
M563 P0 D0 H1 F0                        ; define tool 0
G10 P0 X0 Y0 Z0                         ; set tool 0 axis offsets
G10 P0 R0 S0                            ; set initial tool 0 active and standby temperatures to 0C

; Custom settings are not defined

; Miscellaneous
T0                                       ; select first tool

bed .g

M561 							; clear any bed transform
;G29  							; probe the bed and enable compensation


G28 							; home
M401 							; deploy Z probe (omit if using bltouch)
G30 P0 X20 Y100 Z-99999 		; probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
G30 P1 X180 Y100 Z-99999 S2 	; probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
M402 							; retract probe (omit if using bltouch)

@droftarts Slight clarification though it doesn't really matter now. I did use stand off's for the acrylic board they were underneath it, they were screwed into the existing Rumba holes and then the new holes in the adaptor were spaced for the Duet, there just wasn't room for two lots of stand offs under the base board in the bottom of the Bigbox, there's only 70mm space and 15mm is taken by the electronics cooling fan plus the wiring to the board. It was a bad idea by it's creator and as we discussed I'm mounting the Duet to new holes direct to the bottom of the Bigbox electronics compartment.
Keith

@dc42

Ian is going to check the board over for me to see if it's faulty or the probe is etc, etc.

If per chance I need a new board are you shipping yet or should I go to a dealer, say best for me woukd be E3D-Online.

Thanks
Keith