It's working!! Finally the big CoreXY lives! While the Z axis has been a

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It’s working!!
Finally the big CoreXY lives! While the Z axis has been a bit of a pain (I built it in a silly way), I decided to let it sit for a bit while I made more progress on the X/Y portion of the machine. I printed out some new pulleys to help space out the belts a little and tensioned everything up, then gave it a whirl!

It’s running the latest smoothieware and just flying all over at the moment, and everything looks good so far! It’s gotten me excited enough to start working on the Z axis again to get it to stay level. I’m going to design some large mounting brackets to try and hold everything together down there.

Anyway, here’s the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ_hnlhGq9k

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Beautiful job, Chris, thanks for sharing!

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FOCUS! That’s better…
Cool though. If noisy!

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Wow, that build area is going to be fun when completed. Also I’ve not been paying attention to all the various types lately but the coreXY definately looks like a valid option for going big.

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If anyone else is using OpenBuilds parts for projects, please send me a message and I can probably save you a little money!

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Haha, I could probably @OpenBuilds1 ​​ too.
I’m keeping all the open v-rail black so its kind of neat. You can see which bits provide motion.