Good choice of hotends for your printer. Care to share which printer you are using?

I have tried another type of hotend from Australia known as the JGR alu-hotend (http://thejollygrimreaper.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-metal-hotend.html) and I can say the design is well thought out provides really good prints.

Yes, you can get it from Qwikfab. They also sell quality filaments too. Quality in the sense that, their QA is very stringent which makes their filament work really well with all types of printers. They also mentioned to me their filament is designed for high speed printing too.

I am using a red Printrbot Simple Metal http://printrbot.com/shop/assembled-simple-metal/

Its the best 3D printer I have used so far and it has produced quality prints consistently.

I think Qwikfab is keeping the ABS for in-house use. I remember them having 3kg spools of ABS in their office. They are also providing 3D printing as well but I think they open the service for commercial prints.

Have you tried making a dilute solutiom of PVA glue and apply a thin coating on the bare aluminum? The painters tape adhesive is not very heat resistant and dries out when heated. Also the tape adhesive leaves a melted residue on the surface too.

Instead of painters tape, you can use kapton tape instead but it adheres well to the aluminum surface for wide tapes of a few inches.

Happy New Year.

Lift free yes but clog and calibration always...


See if they do knurling/hobbing for the extruder drive gear.

I ordered my 625zz early last month from ebay and some how the other stuff from the same seller arrived in separate packages but my 625 bearing are yet to arrive... Might have lost halfway through shipping...

That is just too much for an individual use...

I have not tried aliexpress before, I heard when it first started it wasn't good to begin with. Any bad experience with aliexpress?

Hi and welcome to the Reprap community where we discuss about 3D printers and also double as support group in Malaysia.

I guess the rest have answered your question of choosing a reprap printer based on budget but you should also consider the print size, quality and reliability of each 3D printer you plan to invest in.

There are tons of commercial 3D printers out there but from my experience, I wouldn't recommend you anything priced above RM 3500 unless you are seeking to start a 3D printing business but also don't be too cheap about choosing a printer because there are trade off in quality and performance. Like me, I chose a mid range budget printer like the Printrbot Metal Simple and it has been doing an excellent job as I expected it to while leaving some room for my own upgrade.

You should first read up a little on what a 3D printer can offer and what not, and you can start with the 3D Hub printer guide here https://www.3dhubs.com/best-3d-printer-guide .

If you ever need something printed, check out my signature below or click on http://tinyurl.com/altan3d .

I have both FilaFlex and Ninjaflex ,anyone want to print in that material?


Lord of the repraps?


If you need someone to work on dozens of printers at one time, you can count me in!

Steppers look nice in black. I like

Best way to learn about 3D printers is to visit forums and blogs of ppl working on repraps or 3D printing. you could read up 3D hubs printer guide 2015, tells you what printers are good and not.

3ders.org/ is a good site for 3D printing news. A lot of interesting articles. Best place to get inspired.

You should be familiar with reprap.org/?

A brand name for thread lock is Loctite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loctite. Instead of Loctite, you can use super glue which works well for me but drying time is a pain.


Instead of thread lock, you can use nylon insert nuts or nylock nuts, works well but takes a lot of time to screw in.

Even with my business model, I am not even making enough to start a farm from the low demand for 3D prints in Malaysia. Farm works when there is bulk demand say 100 units print per day then that will likely work out. That's why I am taking my time developing my in-house printer since one printer in my arsenal is good enough for the job.

Yeah, so I custom model and 3D printed a radio controlled track robot and no one gives a thought.

Since you ask politely, I will show with a youtube video and a newspaper article.



The robot appeared in one of the pictures in the newspaper below:
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore...ntors-and-firms

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Local, just hanging around in Singapore a lot.

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I did that but got it ship into Singapore, was using UPS and the service was terrible. My printer came in with a broken z axis coupler. As for Singapore customs, I have to pay for the gst tax since it costed more than USD 500. Don't know about Malaysia custom though but I think since the package is large and if the stated package value on the postage notice is more than a certain amount ( seem to vary from person to person) in USD, expect to pay import tax.

Nice , very informative. I will look forward to more of your posting but don't need to be daily but instead weekly or fortnight will do.

It a bonus item for your E3D order, they do that for every hotend order.

The candy can be used as disguise for your purchases. When interrogated by customs, just say got candy inside.

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I put a layer of masking tape on the aluminium bed and use diluted PVA to improve the adhesion. Though, mine isn't a heated bed.

Flex filament may be stiff enough for Bowden but not for ninjaflex. The only clue is to run the extrusion speed really really slow to prevent buckling.

Qwikfab but they produce their own blend so it may be a little different from the actual Flexi PLA.

You probably got used to the smell, same goes for PLA. I missed the sweet caramel like smell of PLA. You will notice it again if you stop printing for a few weeks.

It works on my printer but it can still buckle when printing too fast. My successful print speed was set to 40 mm/s for a 0.1 mm layer height print.

About Flexi filaments, I recently printed 2 sets of 36" GT2 timing belt and I haven't have the time to test it out. Anyone want to tryout the flexi filament printed GT2 timing belts? I can send it for free via poslaju express but you have to test it out with your reprep and let me know how it is.


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