voron 2.4

The 350 is in pieces on the bench. That wasn't a failure. It's a machine I know well enough to strip without anxiety, which is exactly the position building one yourself puts you in.

Why it came apart

Two reasons, and only one of them is technical.

The Core One with INDX took over as the workhorse, and once a machine stops being the one you reach for, its problems stop getting fixed. Rather than let it slowly become a large object that mostly gathers dust, it seemed better to take it apart while I still remember how it goes together.

The other reason is simply space. A 350 Voron has a substantial footprint, and I'm short on bench right now. A machine earning its place is not an abstract question when the thing it's competing with is somewhere to work.

Rebuild, or repurpose

Genuinely undecided, and that's the interesting part of this project.

Rebuild as a 2.4. Bring it back current: updated toolhead, better wiring, and the handful of things I'd do differently having lived with the first version. A large-format CoreXY is a genuinely different tool from the Core One rather than a redundant one, and 350mm of build volume solves problems nothing else here can. The cost is that it has to win its footprint back from a bench I'm already short of.

Repurpose the frame. It's a well-built gantry and a lot of good linear motion hardware. Large-format machines don't have to be printers. The same mechanics serve a number of other things, and starting from a frame I already trust removes most of the risk from a more speculative build. Whether that helps the space problem depends entirely on what it becomes.

Or neither. Parting it out is a real option, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. Good linear rails and a working set of electronics are worth more in a project that gets used than in a frame that gets stepped around.

The teardown gets documented either way. Whichever direction this goes, the parts inventory and the notes on what wore out over a few years of running are worth having.