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Well. it's a pile of parts right now. Will pick up speed in the coming weeks. Currently drilling and tapping the extrusions, gathering the last bits, debating how to machine the bed this time and starting the sheet metal work for the Monolith Gantry. I'm going to try and make the parts by hand only with a drill press and filing. This is gonna be rough.
Motion is going to be split 24V/48V with TMC5160s and the beloved long shaft OMC steppers, thanks to @hearty night
Main color will be either Overture ASA Diamond Red or Diamond Blue. No idea about accent color.
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Exciting, looking forward to following along!
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Picked up 3mm and 5mm aluminum stock today and made a proof of concept for the workflow. Messed up the first 13mm bearing hole because my puny drill press needs way more pilot hole then I thought, but the rest went smoothly. Felt a bit like my first apprenticeship, just filing away on a block of aluminium 😄
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Fairly confident about choosing Diamond Blue as primary color. I will try and print some accent parts in Overture ASA grey as that seems to likely be a good fit.
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I was a bit scared that my method of sticking a 1:1 cutout on it was too inaccurate, but everything fits like a glove
It's just extremely time consuming
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I was a bit scared that my method of sticking a 1:1 cutout on it was too inaccur...
The only inaccuracy possible there would be your own hand.
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The only inaccuracy possible there would be your own hand.
Or the printer being off 😄 I checked it before with a ruler though and it seemed good enough
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Or the printer being off 😄 I checked it before with a ruler though and it seem...
Even that would still be your own hand. Cause ya know. Measure twice cut once.
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All those threads are not gonna cut themselves
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Still missing some hardware, but had enough for a test fit. Needs a bit of filing on the tensioner fork, but otherwise it looks promising.
Don't really like the tensioner wire solution, so I'll make some sort of collet for the pin with a thread that attaches to the tensioner fork.
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Looking good!
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Building a new printer frame is always so exciting
I had a quick flash of PTSD when the frame was rocking with the feet attached, but it seems the trusty Misumi extrusions are not at fault. The rubber feet have 1mm length difference between them, which is odd.
Yeah so the metal inlay in one of the feet is pushing so hard the rubber protudes around it. Manufacturing error I guess, but I bought them by the boatload once last year so I can't send them back. Bummer.
Took a knife to it. Hope it's good now.
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Cut, cleaned and greased some rails today. I'll be using Hiwin Z1 Preload on x and y, Z0 on z.
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I love those UHP PSUs, that's 350W 48V and 200W 24V with a smaller footprint than a single LRS. Brilliant!
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Say hello to the toolhead! Sporting a Rapido 2 UHF and an Orbiter V2.5.
And here's the current state of the printer, with the custom MGN9C Z mounts and the bed I already machined and put a 750W full cover heater on.
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Say hello to the toolhead! Sporting a Rapido 2 UHF and an Orbiter V2.5.
looks great! 
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So yeah, I caved and had the sheet metal laser cut.
There was in fact one spot on the XY joints where accuracy was crucial for some edges, and I couldn't hack that with just my files. Adding to that I got quoted a very good price for a whole set from some machine shop in china, so I pulled the trigger and it arrived today. It's literally out of the laser into the box, so there's still some work needed in deburring, breaking edges, cutting threads and countersinking.
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Small update: It moves, it's pretty fast, it does print but there's no part cooling right now. The WS7040 in my V2 exploded and I had to use the one for this build as spare. There's still a bunch missing, right now I'm prioritizing stuff I'll need for a serial, as I'm aiming for VT.2048
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Almost ready for some speedboats. Waiting for the spool holder, then I'll do some super basic tuning with PLA and print some Voron cubes for the serial request. I hope I'll make it in time for a shot at serial 2048
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That looks really clean !! Do you mind sharing the Chinese shop you usef for the laser cut parts?
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Sure. It was these guys: https://www.chinalasercuttingservice.com/
You'll have to contact them by mail.
Please be aware that you will have to do some manual postprocessing as with all sheet metal orders. You will need M3 & M5 taps, some good countersinkers, you can get away with a christmas tree (step drill) for the stepper holes. Also an assortment of files to remove any production marks i.e. where the laser left material, and to break edges.
And some sandpaper and possibly a polishing wheel, depending on the finish you're going for.
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@shy seal how much where the parts?
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<@248511080756805642> how much where the parts?
About 70€ + shipping
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First 15 minute benchy shaped object using conservative settings. I think there's some headroom left
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@shy seal any reason you didn’t start off with a 4040 frame ?
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<@248511080756805642> any reason you didn’t start off with a 4040 frame ?
Scope creep, already had the extrusions from my last Misumi order and it kinda spiraled out of control when I was checking out mods people usually build from the start
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Current state of it. Pretty much everything is there, except a camera and handles, which are printing right now. Once I have handles I can lift it on the table for glamour shots, but serial request will have to wait for a bit as it seems to have slowed down a bit and there's about 20 Tridents left befor 2048.
Compared to my V2.4s I have a single Nevermore for filtering (which I will replace first, the charcoal chute drove me nuts) and two large bed fans. It heats up so quickly, it's amazing!
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Running it with AC on full blast feels very wrong 😄
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Serial has been requested!
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Whelp, missed the serial by one as the serials bot counts the serials starting at 0 instead of displaying the last assigned serial.
Oh well, guess that concludes this build. Thanks for reading along!
