Bed leveling nut traps - MG Prusa Mendel
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Published on August 4, 2012
Description
These traps remove the need for the nylock nuts under the laser cut Y carriage, and keep the leveling nuts from spinning.
Instructions
1) Print 4 of these
2) Insert an M4 hex nut into the trap and slip it over the lobes on the Y carriage.
3) Screw bed into nut and through hole in the lobe.
4) Enjoy faster bed leveling and less bed vibration.
2) Insert an M4 hex nut into the trap and slip it over the lobes on the Y carriage.
3) Screw bed into nut and through hole in the lobe.
4) Enjoy faster bed leveling and less bed vibration.
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Bed leveling nut traps - MG Prusa Mendel by fastryan is licensed under the Creative Commons - GNU GPL license.
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did this work out for you well? one thing i noticed that by tightening too much, the laser cut bed actually bends and makes it harder for it to slide along the y-axis. i would imagine that throwing the bolt in this would cause it to bend faster sicne it would be pulling up on the bed
I did notice my y-axis was binding when initially adjusting these (when the screws were grossly non-planar). To get around this, I loosened the spring nuts so that I could judge which screw was out of the plane.
It would be so much easier if there were only 3 bed adjust screws.
Maybe a better solution would be a removable clamp around a thumb screw...