HSBNE Mendel Reprap

Collecting the purchased bits together:

Printed Plastic parts

Stepper Driver Circuit ( non-standard)

Nuts, Bolts, Threaded rod

straight stainless 8mm rods:

bearings ( 48x624 and 2x 608 I think)

Cleaning the swarf from the printed parts: ( twist each part onto the right sized drill bit, and then pull it off without twisting , to clean the swarf properly ):

the extruder mostly done:

the hot-zone , and the epoxy we used:

Building some key parts:

the squashed frog ( made from leftover 6mm clear polycarbonate sheet to the design found here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2107 ) :

the basic mechanics assembled:

the completed extruder:

testing the electronics:

some pictures of the fully assembled model: ( front image)

( side image)

( almost overhead image )

first print! ( dodgy, I know! , the settings are still being tweaked) :