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04-06-2015, 11:31 AM #25
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You don't need anything else attached to the board other than power, thermistor, extruder heater cartridge and some way to control the nozzle temperature (LCD or USB with pronterface [or other software]). You are not using any motors so stepper driver heat sinks are not needed.
I put the nozzle in a small metal vise to hold while it was heating, but that is just because I had one handy. Glass will certainly not melt and shouldn't scratch or anything. My only worry there would be too fast local heating/cooling.
I actually did do mine out of sequence, but only because I finished the build while waiting for my power supply to arrive.
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