Greetings and Inebreations

[Xenocrates]

Hey there, go ahead and call me Xeno for short if you'd like. I'm a CNC programmer/operator in training, with ambitions towards engineering with a prototyping focus. I've got a reasonable amount of experience with a variety of tools, although most of it is with wood. I purchased a Rostock Max not too long ago, and have been upgrading, modifying, and refining it since. I now have it set up with PT100 sensors on the hotend, with both a V6 and a volcano mounting it. I'm also getting ready to build a small rackmounted server to go into the table it sits on as a permanent print support server. I've taken the time to get a modular 750 watt power supply for it, to reduce the cabling in the lower deck, and the upper deck has a set of screw terminals for easy swap over on stuff. That being said, later on a heated enclosure is a goal for it, although the draft reduction is mostly un-needed, since there is very little air circulation in the workshop it's sitting in. The protection from sawdust and so on would be nice. I have a fairly well equipped wood-shop, and can work with metal although slowly at home. At my local community college I have access to pretty much any mill I like, although I'm quite fond of the Haas VF-2.

I'm also a bit of a computing enthusiast, and so have a reasonable monolith of a computer to do rendering and design on. I have a 60W laser cutter out in the shop as well. I war-game fairly routinely, mostly with Warhammer 40K, which is part of the reason for acquiring the printer. I'm glad to join the seemeCNC community, and am so far loving my printer when it works, and cursing myself (none of it is design issues, other than perhaps the use of the ATmega 2560, which seemeCNC has little to no choice about), when it doesn't. I plan on getting a PEI bed together once I have time to cut and face some aluminum to mount it to. Since I can get the aluminum absolutely flat, or else within a few thousandths, I see no reason to keep glass under the PEI and add yet more insulation and thermal mass to my bed. Thanks for all the cool advice and ideas here, guys. I've been lurking around here the whole time I've had the printer, as well as before, to get a handle on what I wanted to do.

[Eaglezsoar]

Hi Xeno and thanks for posting on the forum.
I see from your past posts that you are active on the forum and we appreciate that.
I am a bit jealous of your equipment, laser cutter especially!
We would appreciate your helping new users with their questions and we will help
you with any questions you may have. Happy Printing!