i3v 12" build log

[razer1141]

So build update of sorts.

I have been working on the build for the last 2 nights, after working 12's. I am down to electronics and extruder. Probably a few hours tomorrow will get it finished if i can get the kids to leave me alone :-P no pictures been too focussed on getting ti built while the kids were away and too tired to think about it after the fact :-)

I'll hopefully get it's new home cleaned up and it placed this evening with a pic or two. :-)


I will say that when putting together the large "deluxe" display that the holes really didn't line up at all, and the housing doesnt take have cutouts for the solder pins. for me at least there is slight stress on the board due to the 16mm bolts not being quite long enough as well. I think my first design improvement for the printer will be fixing that.

I ran into the same issue with the LCD adapter over the weekend. I ended having to enlarge a couple of holes on the white controller board just to get the bolts to fit through. I also used some of the longer bolts as I thought there was too much stress on the board as well.

Not sure if you gotten this far or not, but another issue I had was with mounting the Rambo and the heat bed relay. The edge wooden plate that the rambo board mounts on, once mounted to the frame, comes right next to the holes to mount the relay. It was so close that the edge pcb of the relay would hit the bottom lip of the rambo's wooden frame. I took a look at the build video up close and noticed the bottom edge of my wooden plate was shaped differently compared to the one in the video. I didn't want to cut the wooden frame as I already had it painted so I created some spacers and used those to mount the relay. I would be interested to know if you found a better way to handle this.