If you do a flat bracket you certainly could. I'll have to check when I get home, but on reflection I think that if you mount a bracket on top of the metal motor mount you're pretty close to being out of adjustment on the sensor position - at least for the V4. If you printed a bracket it could have ...

No doubt you're right. I was thinking of putting a flat bracket under the motor mount and using all four screws. The $65 I was quoted for one was a minimum lot charge, so it won't make any difference there. Considering that the formed bracket was quoted at $8.25 for a lot of 15, I'm not sure the pri...

My initial thought was the same - in fact, I was just going to make one by hand out of flat stock. I think if you have a V3b extruder that would work fine, but on the V4 extruder the nozzle height is fixed independently of the motor height, so I was reluctant to add another bracket to that stack.

I like the metal motor mount from Makergear, but I'd like to also use the auto-leveling inductive sensor. To that end, I've whipped up a variant metal mount with a place to mount the sensor (see below). I've priced it out at a local sheetmetal shop, and they''ll charge about $65 for one. However, th...

I had an idea along similar lines to yours, Tim, but as a hybrid of cartesian and polar. If you imagine a conventional 3-axis machine with a second extruder mounted horizontally on a second (for example) Y-Z axis, such that it had access from the center of the build plate to the edge in Y and have a...

Any chance you'd be willing to share your bracket model? I'm also mounting the sensor to a V3b.

Thanks for the reply, Tim. I suspected response time was going to be a problem, but you don't know without asking. It's not my area of expertise. My soldering is nothing to write home about, so I was just thinking of keeping things tidy - not that daughter boards scattered everywhere is ideal, but I...

So here's a question for the sparkies: why not run the sensor at 24v and then use a dc-dc step down regulator on the output to put it down at 5v? I was thinking of one of these - first mentioned in the stepper damper/quiet fan thread: http://www.ebay.com/itm/10pcs-LM2596S-DC-DC-Buck-Converter-Adjust...

Perhaps we should consider replacing the stock M2 feet with something like this: http://www.mcmaster.com/#9232k16/=yg9i4g I'd think that the Z load capacity would be almost irrelevant for this use, so long as you're not bottomed out - what we're concerned with is acceleration loads in x and y. In th...

It's hard to tell what's going on in the picture - it's a touch on the blurry side. That being said, if what we're seeing is layer 1 and part of layer 2 on top of a raft then I think your issue is starting below layer 2. Just looking at the picture, it looks like layer 1 is not properly adhering to ...