I wanted to test a screw drive in my printer, but the mechanism I pulled from an industrial machine had a NEMA-34 size 200W servomotor. I didn't have a driver or power supply for the servomotor so I decided to mount a NEMA-23 stepper on the mechanism. This is the plate I designed to do the job.
I printed with 0.2mm layers, 50% fill, no support, no raft, no brim.
Former electrical engineer, I became a dentist in 2011. I designed and built my printer, Son of MegaMax, using surplus machine parts at the Milwaukee Makerspace.
My newest printer design, Ultra MegaMax Dominator, is a coreXY machine with a 300...