Hi John. Great work. I was thinking of doing an upgrade to linear rails, but keeping the motion system as is. But, after this, I might just go for gold and change everything.
How has your experience been so far? Are you happy with the results?
@GMalan_1491971 Very much so. My prime objectives were to learn to be comfortable working on printers (I bought this one pretty cheaply as a refurb unit), and to remove weight to try to accelerate the printer and reduce issues with momentum caused artifacts on the prints. This X axis is so much lighter than the heavy metal parts on the original printer it operates like a completely different and much faster device. And the education including learning how the corexy operation worked was worth while as I have now also built a Voron Zero and done massive updates to a Sovol SV08.
I will also like to see corexy in action to really grasp how it works. So what better way than to install it yourself.
Did you keep the X axis motor or did you replace it? I haven't checked yet if it's possible to remove the shaft that goes all the way to the other side.
@GMalan_1491971 I did not. I had purchased a few stepper motors because I have used printer controller boards and motors to power telescope mounts in the past, so I had some in a drawer. Just put a matching pair in you really don't want those two motors to be different.
Hi John. Great work. I was thinking of doing an upgrade to linear rails, but keeping the motion system as is. But, after this, I might just go for gold and change everything.
How has your experience been so far? Are you happy with the results?
@GMalan_1491971 Very much so. My prime objectives were to learn to be comfortable working on printers (I bought this one pretty cheaply as a refurb unit), and to remove weight to try to accelerate the printer and reduce issues with momentum caused artifacts on the prints. This X axis is so much lighter than the heavy metal parts on the original printer it operates like a completely different and much faster device. And the education including learning how the corexy operation worked was worth while as I have now also built a Voron Zero and done massive updates to a Sovol SV08.
@JohnSC_2229381 , thanks for the reply.
I will also like to see corexy in action to really grasp how it works. So what better way than to install it yourself.
Did you keep the X axis motor or did you replace it? I haven't checked yet if it's possible to remove the shaft that goes all the way to the other side.
@GMalan_1491971 I did not. I had purchased a few stepper motors because I have used printer controller boards and motors to power telescope mounts in the past, so I had some in a drawer. Just put a matching pair in you really don't want those two motors to be different.