Mine is a 1450mm beam. Not heavy at all when i hit the button for Z+. I try to not move mine around manually. Have too many burnt boards from that in the past lol
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Umm, if you do that, don’t you run the risk of possibly stretching and damaging the spring couplers (or at least I thought that was the case on the LR3, I’m guessing that the LR4 is the same). I lift mine by grabbing the gantry rails and lifting there - much less weight on the couplers. But maybe I’m off base here…
That reads wrong… I don’t mean lift it like a handle to carry, I mean twist slowly to raise the gantry. That way I can make noises as it moves.
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Yeah I knew what you meant. I was just saying why not move it with the controller instead of manually moving it? then you don’t have to lose Z height just to have the knobs on top.
I lubed the z screws and now whenever the motors are off, it just drops.
I made a power button holder. thought it turned out ok… but it may not be for everyone.
not bad for a few minutes with tinkercad… (not my day job and not pretty on the inside, but it holds the V1 emergency stop mushroom and has a hole in the back for the wires to escape.
also made a z home switch offset for use with the z axis knobs
(they print in 4 minutes)
and it drew the crown and went to its new home…
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