Ultimonster
Introduction / Background
In August 2013, a heavily modified Ultimaker 3D printer was put up for sale on the Ultimaker forums (inthis thread).
Member Daniel Sjöstrand (1025) saw this and started a crowdfunding campaign by using the Facebook Stockhom Makerspace members group and the Stockholm Makerspace forum thread.
The machine was succesfully funded in only two days (1299EUR + 38EUR PayPal fee = 1337EUR) by around 20 members. Members: Feel free to add your full last name if you want:
| Funder | Amount (SEK) |
|---|---|
| Daniel Sjöstrand | 1000 |
| Gustav G | 500 |
| Erik C | 1000 |
| Lars S | 1300 |
| Niklas S | 500 |
| Niclas S | 500 |
| Göran R | 1000 |
| Johan E | 1000 |
| Andreas V | 500 |
| Anders P J | 1000 |
| Petter K | 500 |
| Anders Henschen | 500 |
| Robban E | 500 |
| Erik D | 500 |
| Dennis J | 300 |
| Hans A | 500 |
| Erland L | 500 |
| Stellan L | 600 |
| Mecki G | 500 |
| Axel Svensson | 500 |
| Sum | 13200 |
We still have some money to purchase extra accessories for the printer. I'll check what currency conversion rate we got and update here soon /Daniel
Specifications
- Ultimaker rev.3 from Feb 2013.
- UltiController with custom firmware (version?).
- Heated aluminum bed with silicone heat pad
- Active cooled full-metal E3D-style hotend
- 2.85/3.0mm filament size
- 0.4mm nozzle size
Change Log
The below is a Change Log which we all should use while putting the Ultimaker into operation and learning it. After the major work has been done, this can be moved to a "history" section and instead we should put up instructions for use here.
| Date | Description | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-15 | Around 5-10 of the funders gather to put the printer into operation. Instructions from the seller (Markus) were followed on how to unpack it: zip ties are removed, sewing machine oil is applied to XY rods and XY gantry and the Z screw is greased.
White filament on a big roll marked ”ABS reprap gmbh” that was included in the received package was mounted and fed into the Bowden tube / hotend. It is very finicky to get the filament into the entry of the Bowden tube (needs to be improved) The ulticontroller was used to heat up the hotend. We got plastic out at around 240 degrees Celsius, but before this the temperature was manually turned up to about 270 degrees (the default ”preheat” profiles for both PLA and ABS had been set to 292 degrees Celsius. We should ask Markus about why this is pre-set to such a high temperature. Is the temperature probe off by chance? Or is he printing with higher-temp materials as well?. We fired up Cura and saved the existing configuration that was for the reprap Huxley on the Desktop of the ”3D Printer laptop”. We ran the ”first run wizard” so that Cura can perform some self calibration and have correct ”default settings”. We changed the nozzle size to 0.5 (not knowing that it is most likely 0.6 or 0.7mm nozzles that has been delivered). We got some plastic out and tried to level the platform. We had some problems with the XY belts interferring with the screws next to the wooden frame and they were not parallel to the wooden fram, which they should be. After a while we noticed that the ”X” rod had shifted (most likely during transport) and after unscrewing we could shift it back into proper place. After a while |
DanielS |