Trip to the MZTO plant, the new MZ3D-256 3D printer and the MZTO E3Dv6 extruder
The MZTO company (Moscow Trade Equipment Plant) is known among narrow circles of 3D printing enthusiasts primarily for quality copies of E3D extruders (primarily V6 and Volcano):
When my Chinese hotend Geeetech finally got me plugs and plastic leaking through the thread (yes, I it was sealed with a fum tape, it still flows and it is inconvenient to disassemble it when again something gets stuck inside or the nozzle gets clogged), I decided to get myself such a shiny toy. As it turned out, they weren’t so easy to find in ordinary stores, I had to go to the factory ...
There is no store at the factory, in order to buy something, you need to go to the territory. We met warmly, said that 3D printing is a fairly new direction for the plant, which is developing quite actively. They even made a separate site for it.I’m sure that you haven’t heard about him, just like me.
In addition to the hotends and the steel frame, which I mentioned earlier (by the way, very inexpensive, I did not see anything similar on sale anymore, the aluminum one is noticeably more expensive), the plant introduced its own version of the printer . It turns out that July 14 was his presentation, about which I have not seen anywhere else mention. Probably a little people came to it :) The printer impresses primarily with its compactness, compared to my Prusa i2 it’s one and a half times less in all dimensions. True, the print area is also not huge: 160x160x155 mm (x | y | z).
Ready-made printers in stock:
Printers willingly show visitors, I was invited to see how it prints, although I was in a hurry, so I had to refuse. According to the representative of the plant, the aluminum table heats up to 120 degrees, the hot end - up to 240. As for the hot end, I somehow doubted that it should not be heated more, because there is E3D Volcano, which heats above 300 degrees without problems. Probably, the printer has not yet been tested on high-temperature filaments.
Extruder design: A
direct-drive extruder, judging by the design, should normally press soft filament (Flex, Rubber) when I asked if it is heated during quick printing with nylon - they did not answer again, probably did not check. Mechanics on ballscrews, GT2 belts, thick guides with sliding bearings, Y axis - on rails:
I rolled the table on a half-assembled printer, there are no loopholes to the touch, it gives
me the impression of a rather rigid structure: Why do not I know the hammer on the table :) With me, the collector used only a caliper and a screwdriver :) Inside - the standard Arduino Mega and RAMPS (which means, if necessary reflash - there will be no problems) and the power supply from the LED strip. Some doubts were caused by a small fan at the base of the printer; on my Prusa i2, a fan three times larger blows mega.
Of the main advantages of the printer - print speed up to 150 mm / s. I was shown several details printed at this speed. The quality is not super, but suitable for large parts. At lower speeds, the result is more positive. There are no reviews of this printer on the Internet yet, there is such an articleabout the pre-production sample.
And finally, the awesome positive yellow frame for the Prusa i3:
I’m not an employee of MZTO :)
When my Chinese hotend Geeetech finally got me plugs and plastic leaking through the thread (yes, I it was sealed with a fum tape, it still flows and it is inconvenient to disassemble it when again something gets stuck inside or the nozzle gets clogged), I decided to get myself such a shiny toy. As it turned out, they weren’t so easy to find in ordinary stores, I had to go to the factory ...
There is no store at the factory, in order to buy something, you need to go to the territory. We met warmly, said that 3D printing is a fairly new direction for the plant, which is developing quite actively. They even made a separate site for it.I’m sure that you haven’t heard about him, just like me.
In addition to the hotends and the steel frame, which I mentioned earlier (by the way, very inexpensive, I did not see anything similar on sale anymore, the aluminum one is noticeably more expensive), the plant introduced its own version of the printer . It turns out that July 14 was his presentation, about which I have not seen anywhere else mention. Probably a little people came to it :) The printer impresses primarily with its compactness, compared to my Prusa i2 it’s one and a half times less in all dimensions. True, the print area is also not huge: 160x160x155 mm (x | y | z).
Ready-made printers in stock:
Printers willingly show visitors, I was invited to see how it prints, although I was in a hurry, so I had to refuse. According to the representative of the plant, the aluminum table heats up to 120 degrees, the hot end - up to 240. As for the hot end, I somehow doubted that it should not be heated more, because there is E3D Volcano, which heats above 300 degrees without problems. Probably, the printer has not yet been tested on high-temperature filaments.
Extruder design: A
direct-drive extruder, judging by the design, should normally press soft filament (Flex, Rubber) when I asked if it is heated during quick printing with nylon - they did not answer again, probably did not check. Mechanics on ballscrews, GT2 belts, thick guides with sliding bearings, Y axis - on rails:
I rolled the table on a half-assembled printer, there are no loopholes to the touch, it gives
me the impression of a rather rigid structure: Why do not I know the hammer on the table :) With me, the collector used only a caliper and a screwdriver :) Inside - the standard Arduino Mega and RAMPS (which means, if necessary reflash - there will be no problems) and the power supply from the LED strip. Some doubts were caused by a small fan at the base of the printer; on my Prusa i2, a fan three times larger blows mega.
Of the main advantages of the printer - print speed up to 150 mm / s. I was shown several details printed at this speed. The quality is not super, but suitable for large parts. At lower speeds, the result is more positive. There are no reviews of this printer on the Internet yet, there is such an articleabout the pre-production sample.
And finally, the awesome positive yellow frame for the Prusa i3:
I’m not an employee of MZTO :)
