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Well, it turns out that I never posted the next problem that I ran into in the build. Can anyone spot anything wrong in the following picture? No? Well it turns out that all the pulleys on the Z-axis belts were wrong. 6mm Pulley for a 9mm wide belt. I had 4 wrong pulleys, with a wrong label in...

Looks exactly like the kit I got. I can confirm that that is not a CAN bus. The toolhead PCB is based on the design by hartk, but does have an extra jumper that caught me out and caused me to blow up my motherboard. So fair warning.

A month later and I have just revisited the build log. I had hoped to get it up and running in November, but that was completely upset by a couple of simple frustrations. I couldn't get past the homing. Sounds stupid I know, but I kept having issues with seemingly tiny things: 1. First of all...

With the Stealthburner on, it actually looks like a Voron now: Replacement electronics are on the way, so I should be able to get it printing soon.

Yeah, I think I still have an old telephone with a bakelite case. Still it would have been nice to have some kind of indication that the spacers were made of that, and what they were for, I had to go back to Formbot after much frustration. It wasn't listed in any "upgrade" or replacement part...

The octopus board, with the magic smoke having escaped: Sadly it comes down to two things that I had linked earlier, the TAP and the Toolhead PCB. The one difference the Formbot toolhead PCB had to the LDO one, is that it had a jumper to select 24V or 5V for the "Probe" (the wiring identifier...

This was my wiring mess, moments before disaster struck: Most of the wires actually reached, I had re-cabled the AC side a little (made new wires as the kit ones were too short). I had been very careful with checking the wiring, doing voltage checks, continuity checks, and general paranoia...

The cable chains and the necessary cables are installed: I had to keep going back to the instructions as the back cable chain didn't seem to fold or work the way I expected, and I did have to learn about unclipping the end piece of the chain to have it face the right way. I still feel that the...

Thanks for your reply. Sounds like you got some good stuff! I will probably upgrade my hotend pretty soon after everything is up and running as mine shipped with a V6, not bad, but certainly not the best. I like the look of the Rapido 2.

The initial layout of the electronics: Good to start with, but I would have to shuffle everything around multiple times for the cabling to reach. This was one area where the documentation was quite poor, and while I can understand why, it still proved one of the most challenging bits of the build.

I did the belts and the gantry all in one weekend hit: Noting here a couple of things: First, as mentioned earlier, because of the TAP upgrade the A/B belts are held with a different part. I am really not sure on how good this part is at tensioning, as the belts have slipped a lot in just...

I went to do the bed next and despite doing inventory 3 times, I couldn't find the m4 thumbscrews that are used as spacers. I did however find: I initially thought that they were wood, which worried me. I contacted Formbot, asking about them, and they assured me that they were indeed...

The Z motors, and the rails finished. I did look at greasing/oiling the rails, but ultimately couldn't find a good recommendation regarding this. I should still be able to do it retro-actively.

There are more pictures coming, but I have to transfer them off my phone. I have been lucky enough that a workmate has made several Vorons, and was happy enough for me to just buy the material and for him to print out the parts. I wouldn't use the Ender 3, as it isn't enclosed and I wouldn't...

Next up was the Z motors. Well actually it was the heat inserts. I borrowed a soldering iron with a temperature setting so that I could do the heat inserts in a more controlled manner. This did however mean that I tried to do them all at once. This was a mistake for 2 reasons: 1. Due to the...