Hi all,
After a month of collecting and printing all materials, this week I started building a LR4. I’m making a version suited for quarter plates (1220 X 610) since I don’t have space for a full sheet version.
Beginning of the week I completed the main body, and today I made a table. The idea is to make a foldable table like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwEuSi5xRCo
Some feadback I got from building it:
I used 0,5 mm2 speakerwire for the endstops, which turned out to be a bit thick. Wiring all the wires through the thight channels was hard, but I managed.
The Znuts tend to break when screwing in the brass nut, I had to reprint several times. I think a bit shorter screw would avoid this. (I used m3 10mm)
I might have missed it, but the manual does not mention when to attach the Znut to the Zstub. Only to “leave out the cross tentioner for now”
I used a little bit of painter tape to tape the y-endstops to the body. As the manual mentions, they can easly break of, and knowing myself, I wanted to avoid this. This worked great! Took the tape of after setting the main part on the table.
It took me several minutes to discover how to attache YZ plates to the core. The screws can be insterted from the side if you set the plates on the corresponding heigth.
I printed al parts in black. After looking at some other builts, I regret not using a bit more color. I guess I can still add it by putting on the “peter plates”.
I have some polycarbonate sheet laying around which I planned to use for the strut plates. The thing is, they are 2 mm thick. Do you think I can still use these, or maybe make 2 or 3 and add them together? Like to here your opinion.
