The machine behind Machine No. 001
Print Lab
Every printed gram of the Vulpa H750E comes off one machine: the Vision Miner 22 IDEX. Dual independent toolheads, a heated chamber, and vendor-tuned profiles for the full engineering-polymer wall — it's the reason a 27 kg hydraulic excavator can be printed in ULTEM, PEEK and carbon-filled PPS instead of machined from billet.
Vision Miner's 22 IDEX reel · watch on YouTube ⇗
Three ways to run a plate
every print card picks its mode automatically
One job, one tool. The chamber-bound polymers (ULTEM, PEEK, PPS…) run one part per plate so layer times stay honest — small parts pair 2–3 to keep each layer cooling right.
The IDEX party trick: T0 prints the driver side while T1 prints the passenger side, flipped, simultaneously. Two dried spools, one overnight run, a matched pair by morning.
Quantity-two parts print twice in one job — both toolheads running the same geometry side by side. Sprockets and rollers come off the machine in pairs.
Mirror mode, on this build
5 confirmed pairs print as simultaneous opposites
The polymer wall
vendor-tuned presets the app slices with — temps are the real numbers| Material | VM preset | Nozzle | Bed | Chamber | Dry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ULTEM 1010 (PEI) | PEI 1010 - 3DXTech | 410° | 180° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| CarbonX HTN+CF | PPA+CF (HTN+CF) - 3DXTech | 320° | 140° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| Fibreheart PPA-CF | PPA+CF (HTN+CF) - 3DXTech | 320° | 140° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| Fiberon PPS-GF20 | PPS - 3DXTech | 360° | 180° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| PEEK natural | PEEK - 3DXTech | 450° | 200° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| PEKK-A natural | PEKK-A - 3DXTech | 380° | 180° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| Aether Ultra PA12-CF25 | Nylon PA6 or PA12 CF25 - 3DXTech | 290° | 130° | 90° | 90° · 12–24h |
| PPSU natural | PPSU - 3DXTech | 420° | 180° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| PLA | PLA - 3DXTech | 240° | 60° | 0° | — |
| PCTG | PCTG - 3DXTech | 285° | 90° | 65° | 65° · 4–6h |
| CarbonX PEKK-A+CF15 | PEKK-A+CF15 - 3DXTech | 380° | 180° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| CarbonX PEI+CF (ULTEM 9085) | PEI 9085+CF - 3DXTech | 400° | 170° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| ezPC Polycarbonate | PC (Polycarbonate) - 3DXTech | 310° | 130° | 90° | 80° · 4–6h |
| Fibrex PEI+GF30 (ULTEM 1010) | PEI+GF30 - 3DXTech | 400° | 170° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| FibreX PEEK+GF20 | PEEK+GF20 - 3DXTech | 450° | 180° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
| CarbonX PEEK+CF10 | PEEK+CF10 - 3DXTech | 450° | 180° | 100° | 90° · 12–24h |
Plus SLA/SLS service parts and the PLA/PCTG budget path. Spool math ▸ · Every part's assignment ▸
On the bench · bed adhesion
Nano Polymer Adhesive
Vision Miner · seven years of successful printsFirst layers are where prints die. Warp lifts a corner in hour two, the part peels, and a full spool's worth of hours goes in the bin. One thin coat of this on the plate — it activates as the bed passes 60°C — and the part grips flat through the warp-prone hours instead. If a part wears a ⚠ warp risk flag on the parts board, this is the first line of defense.
PLA · PETG · ABS · nylons · PC · PEKK · PEEK · ULTEM (PEI) · PPSU · PPS — carbon- and glass-filled included. Every spool on this build's wall sticks to it, on glass, PEI or flex plates, and it even refreshes Stratasys build sheets.
Who's behind the machine
the origin story, and a decade of lessons you can ask questionsDrone parts that cracked and warped under real load started a hunt for materials that don't — PEEK, ULTEM — and no accessible machine could print them. So we built one. Patrick and Rob tell the whole story.
Our decade of high-temp printing — PEEK, ULTEM, carbon-fiber nylons, all the lessons that cost us failed prints to learn — distilled into a personal assistant you can ask anything about 3D printing.
It won't have every answer — but it'll usually hand you real insight.
Full disclosure: Small Iron's builder is one of the two people in that video — Vision Miner is his company, and this excavator is the 22 IDEX's 27 kg stress test.