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| Large Tubing |
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| Small Tubing |
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| Tubes cut to length |
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| Constructed Coupler- about a 1/4" overlap |
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| Coupler Attached to Stepper Shaft |
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| Pipe Clamps Applied |
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| Hot End- Not Quite a fit |
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| X-Slide Trimmed- Hot End Inserted |
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Mendelmax 1.5 Build Log: Part 3: Flex Couplings
Tonight's activity was to build the flex couplers to link the Z-axis steppers with the acme threaded rod. Rather than purchase a machined flex coupler, or to use a printed coupler, lulzbot.com recommended using a home-made coupler. They recommended using a 5/16" OD x 3/16" ID tube and a 7/16" OD x 5/16" ID tube along with small pipe clamps.
Initially I tried a 1.5" long large tube and 0.75" long small tube. I wasn't able to fully insert the small tube into the large tube, so I changed to 0.75" length for both tubes.
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