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Post by jimc » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:17 pm

I printed one of the corners. Things are just a little tight so im going to make some mods and repost it.

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Post by helifrek » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:53 pm

Good, because I haven't printed them yet! I just installed the new fan mount. looks way better than the tiny stock one! Anything else you would recommend I do to the printer? Any areas I need to pay particularly close attention to? Thanks again!

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Post by sthone » Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:21 pm

A good thing to do before its to late is to print back ups of your Extruder Motor Mount and Filament Drive (there are actually beefed up versions on Thingiverse that are an improvement over the stock ones.) It's actually not a bad idea to have spares of all of the printed parts, files can be found here. http://makergear.wikidot.com/m2-components

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Edit - After looking at your build pictures it looks like they might have fixed the problems with the Extruder Motor Mount so the files on that link I listed might be the older ones.
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Post by jimc » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:36 am

sorry for the delay on this. i had present wrapping duty last night :cry: so i got all the tolerances right on this. i printed this in black petg and everything fits perfectly. just a hair lower than then glass surface so you can adjust these to your glass so that all play is removed so no clips should be needed. i certainly havent done any long term testing but they fit great and work great so far. the screw hole is setup for an m3. with the petg i have here i was able to just thread a screw right into the corner but with abs or another plastic that doesnt layer bond as well you will need to probably clean the hole with a drill bit and tapping the hole would probably help. also, you dont need the screw on all 4 corners. just the 2 front corners seems to be enough. i am going to post these on thingiverse. you guys that try them out let me know how they are working out for you.
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