Spokane Create Delta Printer

[ABearden]

Unfortunately, domain name renewals, hosting, and truck repairs coincided this month so I'm not going to order the listed parts yet. However, that doesn't stop me from working on the frame with materials already on hand.

Got my enclosure for my printer mostly done last night. I've had the panels sitting around for a while, but needed to finish printing corner and edge brackets to hold it together. Still need to mount the carbon filter vent/fan, which was printed a while back, but it holds heat in pretty well and reduces drafts. Maybe ABS is an option after all. Print testing to be done!

Since I'm looking at the frame, I'm trying to decide on colors. The wooden parts of the frame can be easily and cheaply painted nearly any color, but the printed parts just look better raw so base color is important if it's going to be a possible show piece. I think if we color coordinate any print efforts, it would pay dividends toward the appearance. While I have oddball and plain colors for PLA (black, silver, glow-in-dark yellow, and pink), I do have three full 1kg rolls of ABS sitting around in red, blue, and bright green (as well as heat-sensitive puke green). I'm really tempted by black wooden parts with bright green printed parts. But, copying the Spokane Create colors with white wood and blue printed parts would look really slick with the aluminum rods. Worst case, we find a filament we like and use that to print (just delays things further).

What do you guys think?