LR 4 build - completed!

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The complete build took me 13 days and 6 hours from starting the first 3D part print to drawing the crown this morning. It took:

  • 48 hours of 3D printing with a Bambu P1S, 70/30 Standard speed / Sport speed
  • 2 lost days waiting for a larger pipe cutter from Amazon
  • another 2 slow days waiting for braided wire covers and a few odds and ends from V1E
  • 2 progress-less days due to work obligations
  • 3 spun-out nut holes in parts from tight nyloc nuts (need to work them a bit first!)
  • re-printing the Y-clips at 29.5 instead of the 30s that were too loose on my 29.8mm 1" EMT
  • a 1/4 roll of painters tape trying to square and trammel - successfully!
  • a half dozen hours researching gcode, FluidNC, EstlCAM, etc.
  • a half dozen gantry crashes while “learning” how to control it (oops)
  • another half dozen hours on gcode, FluidNC, EstlCAM, etc. once I knew what I didn’t know
  • A couple pieces of scotch tape to place my Crown drawing on the fridge - sorry, [grand]kids!

The build was a lot of fun, though still have to install a power switch and clean up the wiring.

I also designed a custom Sharpie pen holder for squaring, trammeling and drawing - the orange part in the photo.

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:tada::clap: congrats! Now enjoy

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Wow, that was fast.

You obviously don’t suffer from my condition, paralysis by analysis, congratulations

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Thanks. The next step is cutting out some sort of test piece in MDF, then on to what I made the machine for - making guitar part templates.

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The question on everyone’s mind… is the sharpie holder available to download somewhere? :rofl:

Amazing job. Congrats.

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Looks great. Love the colors. I don’t see any strut plates yet.

I am also interested in the pen holder file.

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I posted the pen holder on Thingiverse and Makerworld:

Thingiverse - stl

Makerworld - 3mf and stl

I printed the strut plates yesterday. They came out perfect.

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We mostly use printables, if you care about free stars and likes. :yum:

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It’s fine, don’t listen to the Prusa fanboys. :wink:

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: They are under every log in this forest!!

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Very nice! Way way faster than I got to this point and she looks sharp too!

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Very nice! I like the pen holder idea.

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