Re: Brian From Protopro Ltd
Is it easy to lift off the main body of your covers for access around the machine for maintenance or does the printer have to be taken out of the enclosure to access the sides and rear?
Regards,
Nick
Re: Brian From Protopro Ltd
Hi.
No its easy to maintain the printer, but generally we just open up the front door and gain access that way, if the issue is more drastic, the top just lifts off and you can lift the 3D printer right out.
If you look at our website, in one of the images, (I think:)) you will see the yellow spool holder and there is sufficient room to get at the wiring etc, as you can move the printer around.
It was designed to keep the heat in, and we print ABS with a standard nozzle and standard heat bed, we have printed like this for nearly a year with the machine running 8 hours a day 5 day a week.
Brilliant result too.
Re: Brian From Protopro Ltd
Hi Brian,
Are you the Father or the Son?
Spoke to you regarding the covers toward the end of the show. Looking forward to how you get on.
(George and Nick from Emvio engineering)
Kind regards
Re: Brian From Protopro Ltd
Hi.
Yes we did meet at TCT, great response.
We are now in a position where we need to find 'Devolved Manufacturing' as we need to reduce the carriage costs for our products, otherwise we will not gain tractinon in other countries, everyone loves the design and it's functionality, but because of the material it's constructed from, it weighs al lot, one case wrapped is 30kg !!!! for us to ship in the UK is not too bad, but everywhere else, its up in the £100 -£200 mark, this makes our product too expensive.
It took 2 years to work out the best material to use and we cant change it now!!
Nice to talk to you again, we will try to keep in touch.
If you know of any CNC shops who would want to purchase a set of files from us, please let them know, the B-to-B side of the UK 'might' be sewn-up by 'Technology Outlet', but the B to Consumer market is bigger and would make someone a chunk of money.
Cheers Brian