Howdy my fellow makers

[ABG3D]

Howdy folks,

ABG3D here and glad to be a part of this forum. I've been lurking for a while and decided to join and get it over and done.

I'm no newby to 3d printing, been into the hobby since the old reprap mendel days and just so happy to see where it has progressed to. Feels like yesterday I built my own mendel style printer with M8 threaded rod and nuts  and today I own a few custom built machines and have a couple projects/conversions in the making.

What I have built most recently and is my go to machine is a full custom built Voron Trident 250 with a whole slew of different extrusions to make a solid frame, we're speaking of 4040 uprights, 2040 side extrusions (all rails mounted on the 2040 extrusions) and 2020 top and bottom extrusions for the panels. It is also a full MGN12H build and I am yet to run a full input shaper once I've rechecked all the bolts. Essentially it should give great accelerations with how sturdy and heavy the frame is.

Onto my couple of projects I have lined up or currently working on: My old trusty and heavily modified Ender 3 V2, that is soon to be broken down and converted into my 2nd E3NG build (looking forward to starting that project). I have an old E3NG Beta build as well. Next up is an old Kossel Mini built with 1515 extrusions, it uses a 200mm bed. I've been upgrading/building as a sideline project, going from 12V to 24V, changing the RAMPS 1.4 over to a BTT SKR Pico MCU and a RPI Zero 2W host, FLSUN Q5 24v bed, New Gates LLGT2 6mm belts (had old rubber stretched belts on), ProtoXtruder HGX direct drive on a modified CraneFly toolhead (have a M4 bowden as a backup) using peck for probing (have pcb klicky as a backup) and a modified dragon hotend. So far it has not printed yet in the new form as I'm taking my time with the build to get it exactly as I want it.

Lastly (maybe not even worth mentioning) is an old Wanhao D5S Mini. I've stripped it down to bare bones, upgraded to a 24V PSU, BTT SKR V1.4 Turbo with TMC2209 drivers.
 

That should be it for now and I'm pleased to meet everyone here 

[PFarm]

Welcome to the forum, you have a cool projects on the go! You can post your progress in the Build Diaries section. We love to follow along. Glad to have you on board!

[TitusADuxass]

Welcome to the forum.

[claudermilk]

Welcome to the forum. You definitely sound like an old hand at this.

[mvdveer]

Welcome

[ABG3D]

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

I need to scratch around for some progress photos of how the builds progressed to create threads for each build, but for now, I'll leave you with a tease video of the Kossel Mini after I upgraded the MCU to the BTT SKR Pico (also the last time it was powered on ).

I got bored and gave up on running the speed test macro before it walked itself off my desk (1100mm/s @ 15k acceleration all on 12V with 1.8 degree steppers running at 0.8A) 
 

 

[TitusADuxass]

35 minutes ago, ABG3D said:

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

I need to scratch around for some progress photos of how the builds progressed to create threads for each build, but for now, I'll leave you with a tease video of the Kossel Mini after I upgraded the MCU to the BTT SKR Pico (also the last time it was powered on ).

I got bored and gave up on running the speed test macro before it walked itself off my desk (1100mm/s @ 15k acceleration all on 12V with 1.8 degree steppers running at 0.8A) 
 

 

Ooh me like that!

[Hooglabah]

2 hours ago, ABG3D said:

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

I need to scratch around for some progress photos of how the builds progressed to create threads for each build, but for now, I'll leave you with a tease video of the Kossel Mini after I upgraded the MCU to the BTT SKR Pico (also the last time it was powered on ).

I got bored and gave up on running the speed test macro before it walked itself off my desk (1100mm/s @ 15k acceleration all on 12V with 1.8 degree steppers running at 0.8A) 
 

 

Do you find the pom wheels vs rails to run smoother, I feel like the wheels are smoother and run with less resistance that rails.
They're definately more maintenance and take up more space than rails, but I feel like there has to be a good use case.
I had a kossel linear plus way back when that  I klipperized, but always thought my friends non railed one had less ringing and ran more smoothly.

[ABG3D]

3 hours ago, Hooglabah said:

Do you find the pom wheels vs rails to run smoother, I feel like the wheels are smoother and run with less resistance that rails.
They're definately more maintenance and take up more space than rails, but I feel like there has to be a good use case.
I had a kossel linear plus way back when that  I klipperized, but always thought my friends non railed one had less ringing and ran more smoothly.

Both are great and have their uses, the only draw back with v-wheels for me are, they wear unevenly and you need to retension them often and/or replace them more regularly. If for instance you let the machine stand for months with tension on the wheels against the extrusion, they tend to get a tiny flat spot that can cause irregular patterns on your prints, believe me I've spent weeks troubleshooting this exact issue on my Ender 3v2. Swopped to MGN12H rails for Y and the problems went away.

With rails, you just use some iso prop to clean them off, rub some machine oil on the rail (if its not stainless), then shove a bunch HPG1 (or whatever same viscosity grease you can find, some say PTFE grease and others say HPG1) grease in there, move it a bit about and you're set and good to go for another 100 hours or so (I make it sound so easy, but its not always that easy haha). I have to also add that it depends on your rail preload, a better preload gives you less artifacts. I've seen some of the cheap china rails wear out quickly and you need to replace the bearing blocks often, but if you get a decently specced preload set (honey badger or Hiwin), they can take a lot more load compared to v-wheels and have less artifacts if your tensions and shapers are set correctly.

With all that said, this build is so tiny with the 1515 extrusions, its not worth the money to buy and fit MGN7 rails. For what I will use this for (just printing PLA and PETG trinkets), the POM wheels are more than sufficient, its not going to be a speed deamon and break any records (although saying that I know myself and will try chase a record from our one local group and try to take some names ), its more for my nostalgia and a case of old school meets new school type of vibe. 

Its very nostalgic to me, because the first delta I built was with my dad and it was a ground up design and build, the math involved (even before marlin's days) was out of this world to get your radius correct and your effektor to move parallel to the build plate, these days its so easy with klipper, you run delta calibrate, do a bed mesh and be done 

Edited September 3, 2025 by ABG3D

[Hooglabah]

Thanks for the insight, my first and only delta was an anycubic kossel linear plus.

Before I knew what I know now I cracked the shits with it and stripped it down to build a self designed idex from the ground up.

I miss that delta so much, once klipper was installed, she really flew, 10k acceleration and 300mm/s with tower tuned input shaper pumped out magnificent prints in no time.

Building another from the ground up is going to be my magnum opus for 3d printers I think, no expense spared, highest quality parts ectect.

[ABG3D]

4 hours ago, Hooglabah said:

Thanks for the insight, my first and only delta was an anycubic kossel linear plus.

Before I knew what I know now I cracked the shits with it and stripped it down to build a self designed idex from the ground up.

I miss that delta so much, once klipper was installed, she really flew, 10k acceleration and 300mm/s with tower tuned input shaper pumped out magnificent prints in no time.

Building another from the ground up is going to be my magnum opus for 3d printers I think, no expense spared, highest quality parts ectect.

Yea, this one, for me, is mostly a nostalgic build, my other Delta is still in CAD design, 2040 uprights with 8020 bottom and tops to form a nice enclosure, have the electronics up top including the steppers with some proper cooling and have the power components all at the bottom. Its still a WIP, but I'll get to building it one of these days, but I think first up will be the E3V2 into NG V1.2 with a gantry mod for rails (still undecided) and then I'm planning a bigger 350 or 400 Voron 2.4, but will get to that soon enough (already have a Fysetc Spyder and EBB36 on the way for it)