RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel
New! This is a RepRap Mendel Printer designed to work with three colours or three different plastics at the same time.
In addition to the opportunities this gives you to put lettering on 3D prints and to produce muti-coloured objects, we are researching many functional materials for future release that you will be able to build with. These will include electrically-conducting plastics, magnetic plastics and soluble support materials.
(See also our single-colour Mendel.)
How to purchase RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel
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Buy a Complete RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Kit
This gives you everything you need to get printing in three colours or materials.
Cost:
We will ship RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel full kits within 20 working days of receipt of orders.
Choose your location from the list below, then click the appropriate Buy Now button to order your Complete Tricolour Mendel Kit. You will be taken to the Paypal website, where you will be able to complete the transaction. If you do not have a Paypal account, you will be given the option to buy using a credit card.
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Buy a complete RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Hardware Set without the 3D-printed parts
Got access to a 3D printer? Then print your own Tricolour Mendel - instructions are here. Adding this RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Hardware Set will then give you everything you need to get printing in three colours or materials.
Cost:
We will ship RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel hardware sets within 20 working days of receipt of orders.
Choose your location from the list below, then click the appropriate Buy Now button to order your Tricolour Mendel Hardware Set. You will be taken to the Paypal website, where you will be able to complete the transaction. If you do not have a Paypal account, you will be given the option to buy using a credit card.
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If you don't wish to use the buttons above, please contact us and we will send you a Paypal invoice for your preferred currency. Again you can pay this either by Paypal or by credit card.
Please note that our UK and EU prices include Value-Added Tax (VAT) at 20%. You will have no customs or import tax to pay if you are in the EU.
VAT is not payable by us or by you on sales outside the EU, but if you live outside the EU your country may charge you customs or import tax in addition to the above prices. The HTS number for RepRap machines and parts is 84779025.
Russian shipping addresses - Please note that owing to restrictions put in place by shipping companies we are only able to ship to business addresses in Moscow (including postcodes 140000-144012 in Moscow Oblast), Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Stavropol, St. Petersburg (including Leningrad Oblast), Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok. If you are in Russia and can arrange collection at such a business address or onward shipping then we can send you a RepRap kit.
Wholesale
In addition if you would like to discuss buying RepRapPro Tricolour Mendels at a reduced rate wholesale - either with or without the 3D-printed parts - please contact us. Let us know what country you are in so we can give you the right sales-tax/VAT information. Wholesale batches are in multiples of 10.
The Machine
Example Prints from RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel
The RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel 3D printer is a Replicating Rapid-prototyping machine, or RepRap for short. It is an open-source derivative of the equally open-source RepRap Project which was started at Bath University, UK, in 2004. The machine uses a process known a Fused Filament Fabrication, which it employs to build 3-dimensional objects in a range of plastics and in a variety of colours. This process enables the user to create almost any shape which can be modelled on a computer, including some which could not be produced by traditional manufacturing techniques at all. Many examples of the objects people have made with Mendel and similar machines can be found on thingiverse.
The RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel is one of the most versatile 3D printers available in terms of the number of materials it can work with at once. Its primary design goals were to offer a printer which is easy to expand in functionality, which is low-cost, which is fast to replicate, and which is fast to assemble and to commission. Since its inception at the start of 2012, the RepRapPro Mendel Range has undergone brisk development and heavy testing.
There is an active development plan for the RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel 3D printer, so users will also have access to software updates and designs for upgraded parts that they can print themselves. With over 300 potential contributors to this development, we hope the machine will surpass even our own expectations.
RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel specifications
The specifications of the Complete RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Kit and the RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Hardware Set are identical.
What's in the Complete Kit and in the Hardware Set?
The Complete RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Kit includes all components required to get you printing. The RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Hardware Set has everything in the Complete Kit except the 3D-printed parts of the Tricolour Mendel machine.
To 3D-print a full set of Tricolour Mendel parts to go with the RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Hardware Set see this page on the RepRap website.
Software to run the machine is also provided with both, including the firmware for the electronics.
Contents of the Complete RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Kit and the RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel Hardware Set both include:
The above contents are subject to improvement without notice. Complete Kits will always be provided with all components required to get you printing. Hardware Sets will always be provided with all components required to get you printing except the 3D-printed parts.
How to build RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel
You can find detailed instructions for building your RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel here on the RepRap website. There is also information there on how to get support.
The design files to allow you to print one for yourself, along with all the software and electronics, are here on Github.
Spare parts
We sell spare parts for RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel via eMAKERshop which is run by our parent company eMAKER Limited.
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