Hi Marcha
Do you have trouble fitting new filament on yours as well. I tried to print a little cone funnel but it didn’t work. Just have to keep sharpeing the end of the filament to a point with a stanley knife LOL
Yes I always cut the end to a sharp point but I’m using a wire cutter, it’s fast and easy
Thanks for sharing! Do you have any pics of the printer and some prints from it?
Hi Guys
Here are some of the things i have printed on my Mankati.
Hi guys
Here are a few more including scans i did with my sense scanner of my wife.
Very nice David.
Here are some pictures of my prints and designs (sorry for the poor quality photo’s).
You can see in the first picture that I made a arcrylic glass top on top of my printer. It helps keeping the heat inside so no warping for me anymore.
My next project will be the new light saber, my 8 year old son wants to have it very badly (and when I’m finished my other son wants to have it aswell ofcouse 
) Next week I’ll start this project and hopefully it will be easy to print.
When it’s done I’ll post a picture
Hi Macha
Very nice. Regarding the second photo: Is that so you can fire the sugar lumps into your tea at speed LOL.
I have another little trick i came up with for you guys. I you have a large boject that needs to be split for printing and joined later or a complicated print that needs to be split to get flat surfaces for printing. Get a cheap 3D printing pen then you can use it as a welder. While the hot end of the pen is melting the seam together you feed plastic into the join just like rel welding. It is amazing how much it looks like real world welding. You can leave the weld or what i do is sand the join smooth with a dremel on slow. This method creates an incredibly strong join.
Next time i use this technique I’ll put some photos up to show each stage.
Hi David,
Whahaha no the cup is for my husband (wich I love dearly don’t get me wrong) at work his colleagues always steal his coffee so now he has a coffee cup of his own.
That is a great idea to buy a 3D pen to weld all the parts together. I wanted to buy a pen anyway so now I got a great excuse to buy one LOL.
I thought I’d put up a few more pics of the Ed209 before i painted any of the parts. Including an 18 hour print per leg pic.
I am also currently printing a Predator Skull and will post a pic once it is complete. I usually clean the strings away but i quite like them on this model as they look like cobwebs and might keep them.
If anyone wants to have a chat at sometime about 3D printing then you can find me on Skype. Search for David Jolliff, Chesterfield, Uk
Print of the Predator Skull has just finished. Well and truly pleased with the result and thought I’d share. I left the srtings on the front as they will look great as cobwebs.
SO! As a further P.S. to my Mankati cunclusion. Don’t let anyone tell you that your Mankati is not a great printer because it really is.
Wow, they came out very well!
Marcha
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Well here is a picture of the telescopic light saber that I’ve printed so far. It’s not finished yet but we’re getting there.
The red parts I’ve printed with PETG. Very easy to print and it looks great.
As soon as it’s finished I will post a picture
Hi Yichan. It’s been a while since we have spoken. Is it ok to pop in and see you guys next time I’m in the area. I am planning on popping over to wedo3dprinting to buy some more fillament in a week or two.
Hi Macha. Looking really good! It’s always great to see others using the bigger build size of the Mankati and making larger prints.
My problem is that i print often and my house is starting to get full LOL. I don’t think there is a room in the house without some 3D printed objects in them. My wife does put up with a lot.
Doiing a large print today to get it finished and in the post for a 3dhubs client about 100 miles away tomorrow morning. Trouble is that i ran out of fillament and was forced to feed short leftover bits into the extruder as each got up past the stepper motor. Absolute nightmare and will never let my stocks run down so low again. Here are some photos of the two large parts which i used the welding technique on i was talking about before. The first two show the weld and the third shows after i dremelled and sanded the seam down.
Marcha
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Wauw that looks great, now I really need to get me one of those pens.
I’m also printing a lot every day my printer is printing but in my case I’m a 3d jewelry designer so most of the things I print are not so big. But I have two young boys and they want to have larger things, like the telescopic light saber. I print the occasional lamp shade, vase or birdhouse offcourse, it’s so addictive especialy when you design your own stuff.
Wow, David, this is one impressive print! Not sure if you saw this one the guys from @bart_7 didhttps://www.3dhubs.com/talk/thread/my-epic-print
If you have more, make sure to share them with the entire Mankati community, it would be nice to ‘grow’ a nice collection 
Nice one, Marcha! Make sure to tell us all about it here, in the Markati community.
TypeR
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Hi David,
Your ‘review’ of the Mankati is two year old by now.
Could you tell me how you experiences with the Mankati have been over the last two years.
Do you still like it? Have you had any troubles with it?
Hi TypeR
Yes I still use the Mankati and only had a few issues. Grand kids dropped something onto the print bed and put a big chip right in the middle. I added one of those flexible and removable print plates. Fantastic, sticks well and easily remove print once bed is flexed.
Also had a few months of layer adhesion fail. Software update had set fans to max all the time so was cooling the nozzle down. Took ages to figure this one out.
Apart from those problems all is good. In fact, plenty of 3d printers I know say your prints are always so good what are you doing different to us. The answer is nothing I just stick in card with the file on it and set it printing. Can’t remember last time I levelled the bed it was that long ago. pretty much all the settings I use are out of the box standard. It’s almost like plug n play. Personally I think it just a case of egg juggling. Once you are confident and not too precious things just work.
Regards
Dave
