608 Bearing Guide for Prusa Mendel

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Published on March 26, 2012

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I modified the bearing guides from Prusa Iteration 2 (https://github.com/prusajr/PrusaMendel/blob/master/source/bearing-guide.scad) that was designed by Greg Frost. The original has the outer race on one half and the inner race on the other half. There was also a 0.3 mm allowance between the two so that when put together, it's hard to make them concentric. My modification puts the inner and outer races on the same half and removes the clearance. On a properly tuned 3D printer, the two parts snap easily together. If the printer is not quite tuned right, the printed parts are more likey to be usable than the old design.

Instructions

Print 3 copies for a Prusa Mendel Iteration 2. There's a clearance parameter in the SCAD file that was fixed at 0.3 mm in the original file. With my Mendel and slic3r, I found that the inner part was too loose inside the outer part with this clearance so I set it to zero. This resulted in parts that snap together easily. The two parts must be glued together. I recommend allowing acetone to seep between the parts if printed with ABS.
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The crown might be adequate when you just want to spin it but I would expect that movement of the belt in the pulley could result in slight changes in position which is important in a 3D printer.

See http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... for a crowned pulley -- Engineers have solved this problem centuries ago without flanges.

I'll try it, but the old ones didn't work for me at all. They looked great once on the bearing in your hand, but as soon as there was any belt tension at all they split apart and fell off, making me wonder why I wasn't just using fender washers (which I eventually did for the Prusa IT2 I was making at the time).

I finally got T2.5 pulleys and belts on the Prusa 2. It's working well in test prints up to 120 mm/s and I haven't even had a chance to glue them together.

Hmm. I haven't got my electronics and all the motors yet for this Prusa so I haven't tested it yet. I'll let you know how it works out hopefully by the end of the week. The two parts need to be glued together well. I plan to use acetone: snap the two pieces together then let acetone seep between the parts. The probme with fender washers is they don't move. So there's additional friction when the belt runs into it.