Ferny's 3D Printer Build

[Ferny]

Found Maker Slide on KickStarter and couldn't wait to get my hands on some. First project is going to be ~24"X24" plastruder.
Thanks to Bart for all the open source work you have done...WOW! After seeing the laser projects one of those is in my near future. Here's what I have so far. I took some of the drawings and modified them so I could use a .125" bit on my CNC router. They should still work for attaching motors to brackets.

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I didn't have any of the correct shoulder bolts to support my idler pulley so I am using a 5-1/16" diameter bolt.
I decided to tap the bracket and thread the bolt through. I was lucky to find pulleys and flanged ball bearings left over from an old machine build at work. I knew they'd come in handy for something someday!

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Built up all of my carriage assemblies and am impatiently awaiting my MakerSlide.

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Modified the holes so I could use a .125" cutter in my CNC router. Cut the brackets out of scrap .125" thick aluminum plate.

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Cutting out some of the motor brackets and idler pulley brackets and the head holder bracket.
Scrap .125" thick aluminum plate .125" dual flute up spiral bit 0.1" depth of cut 30 IPM speed.

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I didn't have any shoulder bolts in stock so I decided to use a 5-1/16" bolt to support the idler pulleys.

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Had some old size 17 steppers in stock. 0.9 degree 6 wire. We will probably use Sparkfun drivers since we have some on hand. Figured I might as well cut off the center tap wires from the steppers and heat shrink them up since they won't be used.

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Stepper after heat shrinking wires.

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Cut out some belt clamps today but unfortunately they won't work for me. My belts and pulleys are 3mm pitch XL so it's off to the drawing board for a design that will work. Can't seem to find any drawings online so I am drawing it in Solidworks. I'm finding it harder than it looks.