A little more progress

I cleaned and lubed all the linear rails, installed the z rails, installed the deck, and built up a couple of the z drives.

I thought I was moving right along then…

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When I went to print the b-side z drives I ran into heat creep.

I had a bunch of successful prints through this (kilos of ASA) and had already printed nine or so hours of ASA earlier in the day.

I’m running a Xol mod with a cutter and the PTFE lengths weren’t specified so I estimated.

But it looks like I shorted myself on my PTFE just a bit and it ended up sliding back 1.5mm, apparently enough to creep and stop things up.

Edit: on closer inspection it also looks like I used the wrong inner diameter PTFE… I’m surprised it worked as well as it did.

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Made a little progress this evening after getting Bluey the Trident printing again following a toolhead rebuild.

Z drives and Clee’s Beefy Z Idlers are installed at all four corners.

Onto installing the bed next.

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I now have a gantry with pin mods and beefy front idlers that is perilously suspended from zip ties, but it’s looking a bit more like an actual printer.

Need to string some Z belts and mount it to the rails.

I definitely had to reprint all the z belt clamps as I didn’t realize the mod parts also tweaked those parts.

Xol and a Sherpa Mini are being printed to stay one step ahead of assembly.

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Added some z-belts to the gantry.

I did not match the z belts tooth for tooth like I did for the AB belts on my Trident. With QGL and the independent idler tensioning it didn’t seem necessary. Someone please let me know if I’m missing something.

I also am not in love with the GE5C mod mounts. There’s just a hint of vertical play. It seems to be from the bearing race in the printed part so I might reprint those with a little extra EM to snug them up; I can’t think of a reason why play there would be desirable.

Adding a pic of one corner in case anyone sees any obvious errors.

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Alright. Fully belted, tensioned, and de-racked.

I also assembled my Vitalii3D MetalTap, it seems to work ok and have a much more solid hold than the chaotic labs v2 tap on my Trident. I’m curious to see the performance once I get this machine up and running.

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Time to attach the toolhead board.

I am using the Fysetc H36 which has a nice high temperature rated chipset, fan tach pins, and variable fan voltages which makes it play super nice with a Xol toolhead.

It also comes with a pretty nice umbilical cable with an over molded connector.

I remixed a mount that @koz was working on and came up with this in #FreeCAD.

Seems to fit pretty well, clears everything, gives some strain relief to the soldered connector, and should keep the molded cable in place as there is no positive retention clip.

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