Graber i3 Day 8: Hardware done! - E3D hotend:

[enhydra (Kurt Meister)]

Graber i3 Day 8: Hardware done!

• E3D hotend: selfmade in my fathers cave
• Direct drive extruder: GitHub - sgraber/Prusa-i3-Extruder-Direct-Drive: Direct drive platform for the Prusa i3 using Whosa Whatsis' MK7 Minimalist Replacement
• MicroEndswitchMount: Graber i3: MicroEndSwitchMount by enhydra - Thingiverse

[Sanjay_Mortimer]

Nice!

Let me know how you get on with your E3D clone. Looks really nicely machined.

Any reason for going with the old style (v4) heatsink with the thicker fins?

[enhydra (Kurt Meister)]

@Sanjay_Mortimer I machined the parts a couple of weeks ago.

[Igor_Larine]

aaah, everything looks so nice in place Speaking of assembly - did you glue the parts together? I have been reading some reports on people assembling lasercut frames, Printrbots and the like, and many say the nuts loosen work - and vibration - starts.
And with an E3D! The hotend I am enviously looking at for a very long time already. Sanjay, you did such a great job with it.

[enhydra (Kurt Meister)]

@Igor_Larine not yet, but I will do it when everything works