Del Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Discovered this neat little machine via a friend's facebook wall. It's not really a printer but a desktop 3D milling machine. http://kotaku.com/5847204/tktktktk Unfortunately the video is all in Japanese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted October 7, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2011 Discovered this neat little machine via a friend's facebook wall. It's not really a printer but a desktop 3D milling machine. http://kotaku.com/5847204/tktktktk Unfortunately the video is all in Japanese Maybe this will help: http://www.rolanddg....chines/iModela/ I saw this at the Intermodellbau show in Dortmund in April. IIRC the price was expected to be somewhere around 450 Euros. Edit: I've just found this: http://www.metazadrucker.de/index.php?cPath=76&XTCsid=rf9pdqfe83k05qmc01ggiul901shm1ft and the price is almost 700 Euros. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 I have it's slightly bigger and older brother, an MDX-15 The spindle motor which came with mine has had to be replace acouple of times and I have now fitted a more powerful setup. The new model, has a small milling footprint and the problem with holding the material with double sided tape is it doesn't always stay stuck and you end up with a hole or a gouged groove, just where you do not want it. However, if it is anything like my MDX, then you can get quite good results, with a little care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyneux Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Bob, what is the resolution of the smallest detail that can be milled? I guess this is the same question as: what are the step increments of the motors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Most of my finishing cuts have been 0.05mm, using either a 1mm or 0.5mm milling bit. I have been using fishtail bits, because I don't know any better. I have experimented with a taper tip tip 0.1mm, but I find that changing bits causes problems with milling height. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atso Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I've got an old PNC-2300A Roland machine. It seems very good (for a 12 year old machine!) but I'm still playing and learning what it can (and can't) do! BobD, where do you get your milling bits for Roland don't seem to make 0.5mm bits, at least not for my machine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 http://www.carbide-tools.com/index_gb.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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