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Haven't been great at updating here but let's take a look at what has happened since last time!
With the order of photos taken as a reference the next thing I did was adding the bottom deck and the DIN rails followed by mounting the four Z's:
Pretty straightforward, no problems as far as I...
Result of inventory, sorted by category and all marked. Extra useful since I have a full set of both CW1/CW2 and AB/SB:
I got an extra z_drive_retainer, but the PIF program apparently doesn’t supply the power inlet piece for Chinese kits, and Formbot also includes some Wagos for nicer wiring...
My PIF parts look really awesome, @pajtaz delivered fast but also with great print quality! Extras like Nevermore, CW1/AB and Klicky were packad separately. Although I have browsed through the manual once when seeing all the parts at once I realized how many there actually are! Plan to go...
Formbot kit includes the parts for CW1/AB and I went with just the clone E3Dv6 with the intent to put something nicer on sourced separately. I've ordered stepper, CAN board, Revo Voron, fan etc for the CW2/SB upgrade, unfortunately with the lockdown in China it seems like those will take a while.
Annoying when life gets in the way of your build!
But still some progress:
Next step is verifying that it's square enough, as soon as I find one of the measuring tapes I know are somewhere, and printing a couple of MGN9 rail guides right now.
Great timing with a new forum, just as I'm getting started!
My first 3D printer build was a Printrbot Jr back in 2013:
Really fun to build but not the greatest 3D printer, so after a hiatus my main printer since a few years back is a Prusa Mk3S, also built from the kit. Really keen on a...
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