Finally made it!! Custom 3D printer.

Yesterday was a happy day, after months of learning, testing and trying stuff finally got good quality prints on my custom printer.

So the story is, 5 months ago I exchanged with a colleague from work an old aquarium for the chassis assembled and all the electronics of this 3D printer. We designed it mechanically together, based on some HBOT printer from the internet, but unfortunately he turned down the project due to a lack of time for it.

I had mechanical knowledge and electronics and coding, but zero knowledge about 3D printing when I got it, so you can imagine the big challenge it was for me, having to learn 3D printing at the same time that I was trying to fix the design problems that we didn't count with.

After months of troubleshooting, learning, being desperate and of course, wasting meters and meters of plastic… I can say know that the project is on a level where prints looks nice at speeds of 80mm/s.

Nexts steps are designing and manufacturing some side panels and door to enclose it and print higher temp filaments, as now I'm only running PLA and PETG.

Now I'm a bit lost on next steps, because I'm trying to find the limits on acceleration, speeds and jerks but don't know how to proceed to fine tune accelerated and jerk.

Ps, the controller board is a mks robin nano V3 with marlin, and also thinking about upgrading to a klipper screen after finishing the enclosure.

Just wanted to share this with you as I'm very happy with the progress of it, and thank the community since some posta had helped a lot.

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