My gantry beam hung over the edge of my side plates about 5/16”, so the reinforcing brackets would not work without shimming. Today I am going to bring home some washers and longer bolts to make this work correctly.
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I am also going to make some cable carrier brackets. Why aren’t these included? Seems that every other bracket was there....
Since I didn’t have the cable carrier brackets made. We had to stop with the instructions at this point. I looked over at the bench with all the parts and wondered… “hrm, don’t these motors and z axis need to go on?” I scoured the instructions and found nothing about their mounting. The following pictures are just me guessing where things go and bolting them up loosely in case I got it wrong.
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I was missing to the nyloc nuts for mounting the z axis. I stole some off of the side motors for right now.
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The magnetic torch mount was pretty straight forward, just lined up the locating dowels and watch your fingers!
The motor for the z axis used the 4 black allen screws, the aluminum standoffs and the shaft connector (which looked like a rubber Lovejoy coupler, if you know what those are).
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Loosen the allen binding screws and slip/force it on to the motor and the z axis screw.
Then install the black allen screws and standoffs.
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The machining looked like the outside holes were a little thin… be careful on torqueing those down. Is there a reason why there couldn’t be an 1/8” more material there?
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I really hope my instructions and pictures help others in the future. I will be sending my therapy bills to Matt@ Bulltear! :P
My current status:
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