I ordered some zigbee smart blinds from ikea. The original website said they would be here Monday. On Saturday, Ikea said it was out for delivery. When I click on the fedex tracking link, it says the blinds are still in CA, and they are scheduled for Monday.
I hate seeing bad software like this. I am sure they can fix it if they just tried for a half day.
I will say I didn’t get a V1 email saying it was out for delivery so atleast Ryan’s stuff is working right LOL
The package did come in Monday. No nice note this time… I must not be posting enough. Totally kidding! Unfortunately I had to leave at 9am Tuesday morning so haven’t touched it at all yet. Filament should be in before I get back home and hopefully the new screws for the bed on the MP3DP will be in. Then I can get it printing one color and one of my others going on another color. Still a lot of other work to do. Have to clear off a new space for the primo and make some changes to the table it’s on now to accommodate the new LR3. Should be another fun build though. Definitely looking forward to ti!
Parts are a printing. About to start the addition to the table. Currently its at 48x48 and it needs to go to 48x75 for a 36x60 inch LR3. Hopefully will be moving the Primo soon and getting the laser set up on it. Excited to have a second smaller and hopefully more ridged LR3 to use!
Also i got gipped for my birthday on the points LOL
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Made a little headway today. Work is messing me around on when I will leave so figured why not put some stuff together. Got the YZ/XZ plates all situatied. Well except the lead screw. Getting a little closer!
When you do put the screws on that is a good time to get the smoothness dialed in. Make sure the stubs are straight, the top of the screw doesn’t move in or out all the way at the bottom. Set the couple so it is slightly stretched, allows for full range of motion and only have a couple mm of stretch if you over drive the bottom.
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I have one side that the rails are butter smooth. The other binds slightly at the top. It’s not by much but enough that the aluminum won’t drop on its own. I have messed with it and messed with it. Loosed it all back up. Slowly tightened everything a touch here and there constantly moving it around and as soon as I get the ends of the rails tight the exact same binding is back. Like I said it’s not much at all. If memory serves me correctly I had the same thing on my first LR3 and it’s doing fine lol. Any thoughts on how to get it better before I progress on with the build?
Fiddling with the V4 now so that I can hopefully get some more parts printed. But I’m going to have to print 2 new parts for it first I think. (Making a post in my build thread for it next). Got one of my other printers printing some braces now and my daughter is bringing home some 3/4 EMT this evening so hopefully I’ll be putting the x beam together soon
About the sticking at the top:
I had the same problem and I found that the X-belt stub (loop) was hitting the Y-X plate at the top. I shortened the loop and that problem went away.
Mike B.
Thanks for that but I don’t think that’s my issue at this point. I don’t have any belts installed yet. This is something with the rails I believe. I will definitely watch out for that when I do install the belts though!
Also forgot to mention I picked up a piece of aluminum today to cut the struts out of. Hope to be cutting them later today or tomorrow on the Full Sheet LR3 (Fat Albert as the family calls it). Going to try to take a few videos and post them when I do.
@vicious1 Now that I have the air blower thingy I seem to remember it being said to mist IPA when cutting aluminum. Do you (or anyone else) know what PSI you are running your air at for that? My air line hits an inline regulator to bring down the garage air from 100psi to whatever I need, I think I have been running about 25psi for the acrylic cutting. Also about how much IPA I need to have on hand to cut 3 43"ish struts?? Just wanting to make sure I’m ready to go. Hoping for a real good finish on this one. Going to dig up my old thread when I cut the bed plate out for the V4 and see what settings I used. I wasn’t running air or IPA then and it came out REAL clean. Hoping for the same result or even better this go around.
see if one of your screws has an offset head moving things around.
super super low as low as possible.
I dropped my pressure down to probably 25 then only crack the needle valve. Very little ipa just a tiny tiny mist that evaporates before it even hits the table, the metal gets super cold.
Good idea!! I will check that for sure!
25psi is where I had it but I had more IPA coming out than that. I will back it off some tomorrow. It sure keeps it cool!!!
I’ve spent the last 2 hrs. trying to get the settings right for this V bit in aluminum. I don’t have the right one on hand. I need to get me one that has a blunt tip instead of the point. I have the numbers coming out good but the rest just looks like 
I’m done messing with it for today but tomorrow I’m going to run it with just the V bit doing the numbers and use one of the 1/16th end mills from your store to just do a shallow pocket on the rest. Then I’m just drilling the holes not the slots for the bolts. First run screwed up this first section I tried so I’ve just been re running on it until i get the settings right. Then I’ll cut that spot out as one of the other 2 struts and use it on the bottom where no one will ever see it LOL. Did get a much better price on this Aluminum than the last piece I bought but its not quite 2’x4’. I needed 43" for the struts and it measures at 45" lol. But for $50 that makes the 1/4" aluminum struts cheaper than 1/4" acrylic so that’s even better! Wish me luck tomorrow LOL. Hopefully ill have a good video to post of it cutting. Should be around a 2 hr time lapse LOL.
Yeah, I have not gotten that real good either. I tried a lot of things. I can chamfer perfectly, but not just V carve. If you can pocket at all first with an endmill, then finish with a vbit it would be fine.
I was thinking about this again as I’m about to head out to the garage and make another attempt at this. Then i realized… You live over there in that crazy land where your sweat evaporates before it even gets your shirt wet, And I’m over here in the land of ALL the humidity LOL. I may not be putting too much or as much extra IPA as I originally thought.
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Another option for the struts? I have been using this stuff for panels on my printer. Best of both worlds. Super stiff but easy to cut.
Thanks but the Aluminum is bought and being milled on the old LR3 as I type
I know this is over a month old, but I can relate to that USPS thing. I’m always having to go pick my stuff up because they refuse to bring any packages to my house. It’s also why I never use them to ship ANYTHING.
