ThingiverseSloth Mendel - unfinished
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My printer is called "sloth mendel". I am pretty curious if "sloth" has in any way the same meaning as in german, where it is "Faultier". That literally means "lazy animal". That name comes from the shape of the vertexes, which reminded me of the character Sid from the movie "Ice Age". Additionally the name fits because auf the german meaning, since much less time would be needed to build the whole frame, comparing to the prusa mendel. Additionally I think less plastic and less parts are needed to be printed. All the parts, except the frame can be clipped on to be easily swapped.
Instead of the threaded rods for the frame I am using 10mm smooth rods out of aluminium. They can be cut to length precicely with a circular saw bench with arrester and sliding table (I do not really know the exact names for the tools and had to look them up, please correct me). Also I use the saw for the reliefs, which really should better be done with other tools, but it works quite well (Unfortunately I