Now that people are getting their replacement beds, does anyone have a warped bed they can send to me so I can start developing a CNC’d replacement aluminum bed?
I own a small manufacturing firm and I’m pretty sure I can have some working prototypes within a few weeks of getting a warped bed.
I will provide a shipping label and would be open to purchasing a bed from you, depending on how much you wanted for it.
I will also send you a finished v1.0 version of the machined aluminum bed for free after I’ve sent a few beta versions of it out to people who can offer feedback and we can make improvements on it.
Ideally I get 2 or 3 warped beds, preferably v3 versions of a warped bed. I suspect I will have to tear them down to get scans of them, so I’m not sure what their condition will be when we are done with them, but I can ship it back to you when we are finished if you’d like.
This is not something I anticipate selling at the moment, as I don’t currently have the time or energy to sell a finished product. And I certainly don’t want to offer product support on something like this, so please don’t reach out to me asking if you can buy one. It’s mostly just a side project to gain some more experience with our 3D scanner and to put our own manufacturing capabilities to the test. Making flat beds for my own X1C printers is an added side bonus.
Depending on how much work we have to put into it to make an aluminum version, I might consider open sourcing the files we make so that others can have bed’s machined for themselves.