So the box of parts is getting fuller and fuller. Only 7 more part groups to make for the A color after the trucks finish printing.
FYI this is what 65 hours of printing looks like for all who are interested and are considering this project. I hope my box is being enough as I’d hate to have to get a bigger one. So far it looks ok.
You’re marching right along! You might want to print a Core Test part before you take on that beast if you haven’t printed really large parts. There were a good number of print failures in the initial Primo builds so Ryan created it to save people from burning half a spool of filament.
Good luck! Looking forward to seeing the rest of your build.
Both trucks now complete!
One of the mirrored trucks have been printed so have one more which I will print later today.
I also printed both Lower Belt’s
And I’m now printing the Nut Traps.
One question is how many Stop Blocks do I need? I know it’s up to 4. And my understanding is that is if I use parallel servos. (which I probably will so am planning for 4 stop blocks). If I don’t do I use two stop blocks or none?
You want one stop for each end switch you use (the stop is what the switch presses against)… also if you choose to not use end switches then I recommend finding and printing “hard end stops” that you can pull the trucks against before turning on the machine to square the machine manually.
I did order another spool of blue as I like the color. And I ordered some white. I think I’m going to load the red filament that I have when I’m done printing blue parts and see if I like that with the blue. If not, I think I’ll go with black!
All of my A parts are printed except for the Z Motor (mount). It seems I used just enough filament testing stuff, making mistakes etc that I am just going to be a little short. So I’ll be doing the B color items next while I wait for another spool of blue to come from MicroCenter.
For those that care, I WOULD NOT recommend ordering online from MicroCenter. They are slow to fill orders and slow to ship. I didn’t know it when I did my initial order. And thought maybe it was a one time deal but this order also has a ship date of next week and I placed it the middle of last week. They also didn’t send me shipping info on the last order and status updates were not done.
I reordered from them as I wanted to make sure the filament was the same. Otherwise I would have gone some place else. So if anyone has a recommendation for good filament at a fair price with good service I’d love to hear folks recommend.
In the mean time. I decided the B color will be Red. And if I don’t like it it’s an excuse to make a second
I also went to Home Depot and purchased the piping! So another step closer.
I have the hardware saved on Bolt Depot and will place that order next week. I ordered in lots of 100 for each of the parts needed. Ironically, the total with shipping was only about $50 which is less than getting just what I need locally. And since everything seems to be a standard size it’ll work well into the Adam Savage style sortizmo Harbor Freight clone setup I made. Basically it’s a bench next to my main work bench to hold all of the small parts sorters. Right now I have one for wood screws. Another for standard machine screws, and this will be the start of the metric one. Oh and I have one for lag bolts and stuff like that.
@Chaos that was my plan. But I enjoyed printing parts, and I just didn’t have much time to get the conduit until now. So plans changed. Thankfully they fit perfectly.
So I get an email from MicroCenter that my order is going to ship. So that’s an improvement over my last order. I have no clue when it will arrive, but at least I’ll be getting more filament!
In the mean time, I’m 3D printing some things to organize the shop. Yesterday I picked up a closeout tool chest at Lowes that I’ll use to put some of my odd and end tools in while I figure out how I want things in the future. Plus one can’t have too much tool storage!
Also just ordered the hardware (aka nuts and bolts) from Boltdepot. So my budget for this pay period of spendable money is done
The fun will be that the filament oder is suppose to arrive on Saturday. The bearings are suppose to show up tomorrow. I’m betting that the hardware show up before the filament!
Now to figure out what else I need for next pay period. I know I need a lead screw, coupler, and the electronics. I also need connectors, wire and a crimper. Oh and the motors of course.
Edit 9 am ET Wednesday 3/3/21: Got an email from Bolt Depot that my order is scheduled to be here Friday! Can’t wait to see what all the nuts and bolts look like. I ordered lots of 100, so I’ll have extras for other projects.