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The RepRapPro Mono Mendel 3D printer is a Replicating Rapid-prototyping machine, or RepRap for short. It is an open-source derivative of the equally open-source RepRap Project which was started at Bath University, UK, in 2004. The machine uses a process known a Fused Filament Fabrication, which it employs to build 3-dimensional objects in a range of plastics and in a variety of colours. This process enables the user to create almost any shape which can be modelled on a computer, including some which could not be produced by traditional manufacturing techniques at all. Many examples of the objects people have made with Mendel and similar machines can be found on thingiverse.
This RepRapPro Mendel is configured to work with one type of plastic at a time. But RepRapPro Mono Mendel was designed from the start to work with three deposition heads. This means that you can upgrade this machine to have three colours, or to build single objects with multiple materials. Alternatively, you can buy the RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel as a complete kit here, see below under recommended products.
The RepRapPro Mono Mendel is one of the most versatile 3D printers available. Its primary design goals were to offer a printer which is easy to expand in functionality, which is fast to replicate, and which is fast to assemble and to commission. Since its inception at the start of 2012, the RepRapPro Mono Mendel has undergone brisk development and heavy testing.
There is an active development plan for the RepRapPro Mono and Tricolour Mendel 3D printers, so users will also have access to software updates and designs for upgraded parts that they can print themselves. With over 2000 potential contributors to this development, we hope the machine will surpass even our own expectations.
RepRapPro Mono Mendel Specifications:
- Build volume: 210x190x140mm
- Overall size: 500x460x410mm
- Printing materials: ABS, PLA, 1.75mm diameter thermoplastic.
- Build surface: PCB-heated bed to reduce complexity of assembly and to ensure parts do not warp.
- Computer interface: USB
- X-carriage: Three Z-adjustable deposition head mounts; one head supplied.
- Standard nozzle size: 0.5mm
- Accuracy: 0.1mm
- Resolution: 0.0125mm
- Building speed: 1,800 mm/min
- Moving speed: 12,000 mm/min
- Deposition rate: 33 cm3 / hr
- Motion: Linear ball bearings on X and Y axes, Igus low friction bushings on Z axis.
- Pre-soldered electronics with built-in microSD card slot for standalone printing.
- Enhancements to the printed parts to improve the ease of assembly of the X and Y axes
Note: The resolution is how fine a step the motors can make. The accuracy is how accurately the machine can position things. So the resolution is finer than the accuracy because the accuracy is influenced by other factors, for example how well the timing belt is manufactured.
What’s in the Full Kit?
The RepRapPro Mono Mendel Full Kit includes all components required to get you printing.
Software to run the machine is also provided with both, including the firmware for the electronics.
Contents of the RepRapPro Mono Mendel Full Kit:
- All hardware (threaded and smooth rods, screws, nuts, washers, belts, bearings etc)
- Pre-soldered and programmed electronics
- MicroSD card + adapter
- Heated PCB build surface (requires eight soldered joints)
- Motors
- Nozzle assembly and extruder drive mechanism
- 100m of 1.75mm diameter PLA filament (approx 300g) for printing with
- Power supply
- All the 3D-printed Mendel parts
The above contents are subject to improvement without notice. Full Kits will always be provided with all components required to get you printing.
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