Comments on: Cricut Disassembly

By: everhack

everhack — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:46:15 +0000

Yep, you have to remove the metal sides to get the plastic off, then reassemble without.

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:27:23 +0000

I almost disassembled my first Cricut (it’s Personal, not Expression). I wonder did you disassembled the metal part and reassembled it outside of plastic shell, or there is a way to just take off the shell without doing this? I’m stuck at this phase. Your Freecut works great, by the way, thank you for this large reverse engineering job!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:06:02 +0000

Getting all the plastic away helps show the real guts. I’ve been taking a couple chassis and combining the upper chassis to get my x y coordinates. I’ve been trying how to reuse the roller mechanism for the mat. At the moment I’m looking at the cost of milling the roller into an acme thread rod. I’ve amassed quite a collection of the rods after reusing the aluminum bar/track mechanism.
Bill

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:48:03 +0000

I like how the cricut looks without the outer shell. It is much more manly now, you wouldn’t even know they were marketed to arts and crafts chicks. Once I get the reprap dialed in I can print you a case in some macho black abs.