I attend to name my 3D Printers. I dubbed the extended printer Rex.
I got a PEI build plate for it. I was lucky and got it for $39.00.
The Sprite Pro hotend/extruder that I wanna to use has a short somewhere for the hotend so I decided to rob the hotend from Rouge and bought a Black Box v2.0 direct drive. Good thing when the v2 was given to me I was able to acquire the old hotend with it.
So the hotend/extruder has the following.
Ender 3 V2 bracket and fan shroud.
Noctua NF-A4x10 FLX fan.
0.6mm steel nozzle.
BLTouch
ChowThink Black Box v2.0 extruder.
High heat silicone sock.
Dawnblade all metal hotend.
stock Ender 3 blower fan.
The Noctua fan is a 12v part. The so called “Low Noise” adapter is a resistor that just drops the voltage to the fan. So with the adapter added in the fan is running at 14v.
This has doubled the weight of the Z axis. Good thing I have a dual Z axis setup.
On Facebook I kept getting ads about the Bigtreetech Pad 7. So I broke down and bought it. Comes with their CB1 version of the pi Compute Module. Down the road I might toss in a Pi CM4.
To fund some of this stuff I sold my Vacuum Tube Tester and my Tektronix 2235 scope on Facebook Marketplace. Same guy bought both on separate days. The tube tester money went towards the direct drive and build plate. The scope money went towards the Pad 7.
I was planning to having the printer up and running today but since I bought that blasted Pad 7 last night I am going to wait.