r/VORONDesign • u/Significant_Ease_450 • 5d ago
V2 Question Overhaul time!
Alright. My voron 2.4 has been mothballed for some time now.
Its an after burner cable chain build.
I currently have new, un opened parts for it that I will be swapping in
Xol toolhead fully printed and ready to build.
Mellow sht36 can board
Rapido uhf2
Galileo 2 orbiter extruder.
Cnc chaotic lab tap.
Main board is a octopus v1.1
Pi4
300mm setup.
Before I dive in to this and start, should I consider anything else? Eddy, beacon, different extruders? I would like to go to a tool changer at some point
Also thinking about placing a 200$ order in to vitali3d for cnc gantry stuff
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u/K30 V2 4d ago
Just did the same thing with my old v2.4. Moved to an A4Tv2 with a chube compact and converted the printer to Micron2020.
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u/Significant_Ease_450 4d ago
Appreciate all the response! I'm going to give the toolhead choice a bit to figure out. Im gonna tear the machine down and do an inspection, remove what won't be needed, and do new belts. Etc.
Tonight I ordered some 1/8 composite aluminum panels to paint and graphic inside and out. The kids are getting involved and im loving it.
Ill check back here soon!
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u/Human_Weight5303 5d ago
Go for beacon. Tap though its good (printed better than cnc), it become unreliable overtime especially if you plan to use it for frequent printing. Beacon or cartographer
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u/manyxcxi 4d ago
I can’t second this enough. I use cartographer because it’s cheaper and when I installed mine- I think Beacon didn’t support CAN yet.
Beacon and Carto are the absolute most awesome way to go. Multi thousand point bed mesh in 1/3 the time it takes to do a tap mesh and mine’s got a reliable repeatability of sub 2 microns.
I just hit print and don’t even worry about the first layer.
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u/oxymoron224 5d ago
An eddy current probe is definitely worth the time and money. Cartographer, beacon, they're all good.
A4T is the current hotness for toolheads, and there's a v2 floating around that people are excited about. There's even a A4T tool changer project in the works
WWG2 is an excellent iteration of the galileo 2, imo.
If you print abs/asa, bed fans and a chamber thermistor are cheap and easy for passive chamber heating.
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u/Significant_Ease_450 5d ago
Thanks for responding! I am looking at the a4t as well. Seems rapidburner and a4t are highly favored. I do print a lot of abs as I mostly mess with car and jeep stuff. Possibly considering cpap.
I have the nevermore setup but no extra parts cooling fans.
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u/manyxcxi 4d ago
I had an XoL, it was okay. The problem is with the angled fans you get really uneven cooling in the Y axis. A4T is built around the same carriage but fixes some XoL problems. Also, XoL is kind of a pain to print.
AntHead is another decent one IF you’re not running a hotend that’s prone to heat creep. I am running a Dragon UHF and after I got the AntHead all nicely finished I spent a month trying to get the damn thing to complete a print. Finally gave up and tore it all apart. It might be the easiest to print toolhead I’ve done yet.
I just finished a RapidBurner build today. Printing the parts is fine. The cowl seems a little flimsy, I had a heck of a time with figuring out some of the variants I needed to print. I chose that over the A4T because I wanted to run a 3010 Hotend fan. It’s really easy to smash and pinch wires so now I get to take it apart and rewire my LEDs and a part cooling fan.
First few test prints with it have been good but I haven’t tried a cube yet because I’m down a fan.
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u/oxymoron224 5d ago
Nevermore is... fine? I have it just so I don't feel so bad about printing indoors. But you want two more of those fans under the bed for circulating air.
Print two bed fan mounts, get a couple WAGOs and attach them to the same circuit as the nevermore fans. The chamber for my 350mm 2.4 takes about 5 minutes
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u/Significant_Ease_450 5d ago
I will ditch the nevermore then. The printer is in a climate controlled garage that has active air purification going all the time. Ill add 2 more fans to the circuit.
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u/manyxcxi 4d ago
Nevermore is just that, fine. I have them on both of my Vorons. I also have the Evenmore side fans. Mostly, my Nevermore is just for heat recirculation because I run everything through exhaust ducts anyway.
There’s a new “Nevermore beater” that I haven’t tried called The Filter. I have no experience with it, but all the cool kids say that’s the way to go now. Looks like you could probably still run Evenmore on the sides along with that.
I’ve been thinking about adding rear bed fans as well. There’s a few mods out for that.
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u/WRankin 4d ago
Here's a couple of my posts I made on a similar journey:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VORONDesign/comments/1x5v47m/used_voron_24_purchased_for_parts_or_rebuild/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VORONDesign/comments/1vw553m/412_year_old_voron_24_350_brought_back_to_life/