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Originally Posted by EricH
That's got me curious--what happened? Got any pictures (or videos)?
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I'll see if I can find some pictures.
I wouldn't say it was anything specific more than the combination of many smaller issues compounded. We had a couple of Replicator 2's that we were just starting to get familiar with, and there wasn't a ton of experience designing for printing on the team then. We printed in the wrong orientation, broke a couple of plates trying to fit in gears, and once we had it all together it made sounds I hadn't heard come out of a gearbox before or since. I think it probably could have worked with some more effort (and experience), but when there's so many nice COTS options out there it just didn't seem to be worth the effort. In retrospect, I wouldn't necessarily say it was a bad idea, just that it wasn't nearly as good of an idea as we thought it was at the time.
We learned a ton about designing for printing from that gearbox though.