Most of the parts are printed but I’ve run out of yellow filament so have to wait until the order arrives for that (1 week or so)
Other ordered parts have started to arrive. I have the extrusion, abll screws and linear rails, bed plate plus 3 more parcels I have yet to get from the post office.
Picking up fasteners and bearings today so hope to start eh build in the next day or two.
Linear rails and ball screws. I’ll give these a good clean before I use them.
I have a bout 50 screws that I need to ‘adjust’. BOM calls for 14mm but next available size is 16mm. That’s an outdoor job with the grinder - when it stops raining.
Put a bit of the frame together while waiting for some more filament to be delivered.
This is just the electronics enclosure on the side, stands just on 930mm high.
The full width will be 650mm
Overdue for an update on the Hevort.
Got the frame assembled (mostly) Note to self: buy drop in t-nuts next time!
Had trouble sourcing the ball-screw bearings so a weeks wait for the remaining one I’ve ordered.
I managed to order the wrong size oldham couplers (changed stepper motor size after I started) so another delay there.
I received the controller the other day BTT Octopus so I’m getting familiar with it and the necessary Klipper configuration.
I still have to design/modify a suitable X-carriage to suit the Orbiter extruder and Mosquito hotend.
I’m good at borrowing.
Thanks for the hint.
The Muldex X-axis has the rail on top whereas the Hevort has it on the bottom so might take e a bit or tweaking.
(I can see a mention of the Orbiter/Muldex on Twitter but nothing on Github.)
Oh, I’m sorry. I’d just been following him on Twitter and didn’t realize he hadn’t pushed the new design to GitHub yet… And didn’t realize the rail mismatch.
Frame is all finished. Still have to mount the bed plate and the motors. Still waiting for Oldham couplers for those.
Electronics will now go in the base rather than an attached cabinet.
(I’ve been re-reading this because I’ve finally decided that the Cantilever printer design based on leftovers is a failure and I “need” a working second 3D printer that will be reliable for the family; the corexy that I designed around a few parts from a tronxy x5s is wonky enough that I think it would be frustrating for my kids to try to use it directly. And I think I want to buy a printer or kit rather than do another design-my-own. So this thread is super useful to review!)
Build is going rather slowly. A long wait for parts plus life has gotten in the way a bit (not in a bad way)
Finally all parts are on hand or can be sourced locally so no excuse not to get it done
I have spent a bit of time installing and playing around with Kliper on the Ender 5 as I’ll need to know that for the Hevort.
Before settling on the Hevort, I looked closely at the RatRig which is a full kit.
