Prusa i3 - STLs for Improved Laser Cut Frame Design
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IMPORTANT: With "improved laser cut frame", you can really, trully use all of the original Prusa i3 parts designed by Joseph Prusa and posted on github.
You don't need four parts for Z Axis because they are redundant and implemented with laser cut parts.
About posted files and how their differ from Prusa's design:
1. All clamping parts designed for GT2 2mm belts only.
2. X Idler uses M5 Screw to hold two 625ZZ Ball bearings. Original i3 used one M4 mounted bearing and printed idler.
3. Y Idler also uses M5 Screw to hold two 625ZZ. Original i3 used one M4 mounted bearing and printed idler.
4. X Motor Part has adustment screw to fine tune level of Z against Z end stop switch.
5. Y Corners have side cutouts for better wrapping of tie wrap around y shafts.
6. Y Belt Clamp has 0.9mm of clearance for belt which provides enough clamping and still you can pull belt trough it with pliers.
7. Y Motor - changes are purely cosmetical.
8. Y Bushing holders - better grip of LM8UU, also they look better to me.
Only STLs are here. Printer posted by Twelvepro thingiverse.com/thing:39889
He will repost these files, DXFs as well as BOMs, eventually.
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The MendelMax micro extruder doesn't line up with the base plate from Twelvepro. They are off center from each other on the filament feed path by a couple mm.
The PrintrBot Jr and Diamond Age PLA make very smooth hard and slippery parts (people used to use PLA to make bushings for their printers). The nuts skip steps by sliding around on the PLA. They need to be trapped from spinning.
The nut traps appear to be about 2mm too narrow for the #10 nuts I have. My current plan is to melt them in with a soldering iron when I finally quit dithering over the extruder and finish out to being able to print.
The new X end motor is much stronger and indeed much prettier than the diamond shaped.
Great job!
Should be easier for Twelvepro to print as well.
The cad render isn't using the current design for the X end motor.
If the X belt clamp is being phased out I would recommend adding one of your nifty zip tie slots from the Y corners, or even two of them for securing the belt ends. Removing the tooth pattern would make printing easier.
You might want to add ribs to the Y bushing holders. I found the bushings to be loose enough to slide in and out. The LM8UU's have retaining clip rings in them for the ribs to pop into and securely lock them into place.
As far X Carriage - I will not make any changes at this moment. It needs some improvement eventually, but still works the way it is quite all right, at least for me and J. Prusa.
Try X end motor now, I upgraded STL.
How loose or tight Y bushing holders depends on your printer settings. Parts I printed very tight and don't need any improvement as far as securing LM8uu in place.
Current Y busing holders designed the way so only sides will deflect and hold LM8UUs, your suggested ribs will transfer stress over to the mounting surface, which is not the way it should work by design.
One general comment on your LM8UU holders: the ones in Prusa's git repository allow you to pop the y-carriage / heated bed off the smooth rods without removing the smooth rods from the y-axis assembly. With your version, if you want/need to pull your y-carriage / heated bed off the smooth rods, you have to cut the zip ties, lift the smooth rod out of the y-corners, and slide the bed off the rods.
I do see why you've done it your way, though, as it makes the whole assembly more uniform since the z-axis uses that concept.
Using the parts printed by Twelvepro I can not lift the smooth rods out. This was a bit of a challenge during assembly because the Prusa i3 parts I originally printed allowed the smooth rods to pop in and out vertically. I had to loosen the cross assemblies on each end enough so I could push the rods horizontally into the corners, then tighten the cross pieces back on using the Twelvepro parts.
Now that I have the STL's, thank you, I will see if the pop out issue is due to the generally low quality 3D printing in the Twelvepro parts.
I have been very happy with the design work on this variant and less impressed with Twelvepro's implementation of it.
That's right, more uniform design, of just the way I like it to look.
For table installation I am "snapping in" assembled table with Y shafts inserted into Y corners, then I zip tie them, If I ever need to remove table - I will cut zip ties and pop out table together with Y shafts. I would not settle with current Y bushing holders unless it would be easy to assemble or remove table.
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