#printing @Richard_Horne #3DR delta printer. Aside from the extruder wires being an ass it’s coming along pretty good.
You can see where the extruder failed and I had to save it.
/rant/
Argh just had to save the print again, it’s definitely time to either replace my extruder stepper or hard write it internally.
The hack job I have for it with the wires since the connectors went or is not cutting it. They keep coming undone and causing me to run through lines of gcode to find the right spot to resume.
/rant/
If you’re going to solder directly to the connector on the motor like that (not recommended, but there’s no going back now), you should fill in the space with hot glue to keep the wires in place and prevent short circuits. You should also bundle and zip-tie the wires down somewhere on the extruder body so they don’t move around and flex near the solder points when it moves.
@Whosa_whatsis Ya that’s the current issue I’m facing I just done have time to fix it until I get back. The wires going to the stepper are of crap quality they broke off right at the connector and there was no fixing it aside from waiting for a new connector. So I just hardwired them.
I’ll take your advice and do it properly when I get back.
@Jeremy_G_WeisTek_Eng maybe you could desolder the connections, that way the pads/pins on the motor are tinned. Then you add heatshrink-tubing to the wires and resolder the tinned wires to the tinned pads/pins. I normally find it easier to solder tinned things to tinned other things than to untinned other things.
@Daniel_Schulte ya I tinned the poles as well as the wires, I anchored the connector to the stepper motor so now the wires won’t pull anymore. Ill do a real fix to it later when I get back.
@p_pang Sorry my phone camera gets fingerprints on it pretty easy I’ll clean it and get a better focus on it next time.
