Got most of the parts printed for my LR3 build. The YZ plates don’t fit on my Prusa so I sliced them in half and printed them separately. I’ll report how this works out after I put it together.
Do you think I’ll be able to cut the struts and YZ plates before they fail?
Did I slice these in the better direction (horizontally) versus vertically?
Is there some kind of lapped joint in the split, or did you just cut the piece in two?
I bet that works until you can cut new plates.
If not, there are other ways to split these- for example look here:
Nice, yeah I probably should have done a lapped joint or something but wasn’t confident in editing an STL. I’ll let everyone know if the super glue holds though.
I figured if it did break, I can use it as a template to hand make some out of MDF.
I’m holding my thumbs for you!
Just reporting the two pieces seem to be fine. I got the machine up and running, cut out the struts and installed them. I made YZ plates out of 1/2" MDF and have them ready.
I don’t really feel like taking the whole machine apart. I have maybe ~50 hours on it and I don’t feel like the 2 piece 3D printed ones are affecting me in any way.
Any update on this? 
Still working great. Never switched to the MDF ones yet.
Did you just put it on top of each other and glue it? Not joint, not reinforcement, nothing?
I am very surprised (positively) that that still holds…
Yeah, I used this glue and lightly clamped them while they were drying.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y6GV4TW/
I don’t really think there are any loads on the machine that would stress the joint the way I cut it.
I used the 2 part printed YZ plate on my “Little Red” build
It worked fine as an interim step, but I did find that there was a LOT of flex.
(sorry that the video is blurry, I didn’t realize at the time that the lens had some grease on it.
I do have that flex as well, actually maybe more. But it doesn’t seem to matter.
