Equipment Donation: Modix V3 120x

My biggest concern would be size.

Getting it working should be fairly simple, I've got parts on hand for a full tool head rebuild, with a better ABL probe (cartographer)

Space wise, once the printer bench is done and AMSes are underneath, we have more space to fit the a1, XL, trident over there (and 3 a1 minis all together on the black shelving where the mini ans a1 sit currently)

It comes pretty much completely flat packed. So can definitely be disassembled enough to get it in. I'd be inclined to use this as an opportunity to check every component over for wear and damage.

Power draw - 1300 ish watts peak for bed and a 300w brick for thr electronics. Its probably going to idle around 700-800w with PLA.

I think long term, we need to consider pellet extrusion or something more cost effective for members to be able to justify the cost of super big prints.

We could also convert this machine to a full person sized machine with a taller z axis if we wanted, as the modix machines are standardised hardware.

Overall. I think it's more of a "we have this massive printer, come look at the artifactory" than a heavily utilised tool, but I do think many members will get good use out of it for things bigger than the XL is capable of (and much faster, and more reliably)

another question i have is software. what firmware does it run? can we interface with it? can we just use bambu or prusa slicer or does it need its own one?

@Tom White currently duet, works with prusaslicer. I'd probably put klipper and a cartographer on though

What's the time frame for such large prints? Would it actually be used that much?

Is there a big use case for huge prints that can't be made in parts (and thus more resistant to print failures)?

Apart from furniture the primary usecase would be large parts where cosmetics are a significant consideration. Blending multiple joined parts seamlessly is somewhat dificult on larger scales. (Cosplay, display pieces etc). If we go down the pellet extruder route the print speed increase is pretty significant.

I guess if it's furniture and it's free all good. If it's got significant running costs though then that's a bit different.

To be clear i mean printing furniture.

Footprint pics:

No objections from me.

No issues in obtaining it, Also no issues if, once up and running, setting it up in place of the current electronics bench/equipment, (i know all that stuff was just moved back in, but tbh not a huge fan of using that bench anymore, due to crampness) id honestly prefer that room to be 100% 3D printing IF we can find another place to setup an electronics bench elsewhere. Fletcher mentioned printing furniture. any issues with moving the prints out of the room lol? anwyays, leave yas to it.

Questions from me:

• Is there any strings attached in terms of minimum machine retention period, promotion of the donor required, restrictions on disposal, etc.

• How likely do we think it is that we can get this machine working in a reasonable time (3-6 months)

• What's the exit strategy if the machine is not working after 3-6 months?

My 2c is that it would be lovely to have a reliable large printer (which the Prusa XL currently isn't).

• No written strings attached though if we immediately flipped it on marketplace we'd be unlikely to get a donation from the same section again.

• Very likely (excluding sophie bus factor)

• Donate/sell on/strip for parts. I'd be hesitant to put a hard time limit on it until we've look at it though.

@Fletcher Boyd in that case it sounds good to me 👍

Consensus is that this is a go.

I've reached out to our Woodside contact and will update when we know more.

Printer has arrived. Passing over to @sophiemurday for the next steps.

Printer has been partially reassembled in the lab. Next steps are being tracked privately as some pieces are proprietary.