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Day 57/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Second day of caption testing and time lapses.

Threded rob printers were not replaced by lazer cut plywood. To this day the Prusa i3 decendants are still made of threaded rods.

Nothing necessarily replaced anything at any given point in time. But the first few RepRap printers were threaded rod frames. Very quickly the majority of sold kits were plywood. From 2012 onward it was a pretty healthy mix. But current i3 descendents using threaded rod? Would love some examples.

Upon reflection, I conced that the Prusa MK1 is no longer modern.

I've only seen 2 i3 MK1s so far. I let Pooch from Repkord have the one I would have acquired. Frame wise it's essentially the same as the MK2. But the MK3 replaces the threaded Y rods with 30mm extrusions. We have a MK0 era 3mm build that has been updated with MK2 and MK3 parts but keeping it 3mm.