Bed Support Plate — Decide, Cut, Seal/Paint and Assemble
Thinking :
- MDF is recommended, but am using Ply left over from a Panel Cut I messed up (wrong dimension).
- Modified my build’s Support Plate to be mostly square and oversized to help support/encapsulate insulation filled below Alu Bed. This could cause a fit and/or wire snagging issue, will find out in time…
- Holes for zip ties to run wiring to back of printer.
- Intentionally symmetrical, still hopeful that hot-end can be too, or at least close.
- Maximizing plate size, incase Core XY gets XL’d and big headed later on (like Prusa XL).
Parts :
- 3 x M5x30mm
- 6 x #10 Washers
- ~7 zipties
Was tempted to reduce overall wiring length required by dropping through center of Bed Support Plate, with controller underneath the printer. Would need to figure out wiring protection, strain relief, maybe the zip ties would be enough? Decided to drop wiring out back of the plate. Hopefully route wiring within a drag chain…
Note holes for bed are missing. Reason is I don’t know where it’s going, waiting until hotend is assembled and I have better idea of usable XY that nozzle can reach.