New LR4 build

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Hi all,
I started my build about 2 weeks ago. I’m in Europe, so buying and shipping from V1 is troublesome/costly, so this is all self-printed and ‘locally’ sourced (mostly Amazon UK).
I have an Ender 5, which worked great for printing, no real issues.
I’ve printed the XZ plates for now, I may try get them cut locally in alu or get the LR4 to cut them if I can get it to do that.

Pain points so far:

  • M2.5 machine screws with T8 Torx heads - I didn’t have a T8 bit
  • M3 machine screws with allen head, but very tight and pokey with an allen key
  • Generally quite tight and pokey, small black screws with black printed parts, with bad eyesight is a bad combination, lots of cursing
  • I bought 6mm timing belt and 6mm pulleys by accident, the joys of DIY sourcing means these mistakes can happen
  • Some of the retaining nuts spinning were annoying, I used glue (plus baking soda) on the wheel attachments, but also nearly glued the screw in place also, thought I would have had to re-print at one stage
  • I’ve ordered the board from Elecrow, Day 10 waiting for delivery, probably into Christmas delays now at this stage also

Still to do

  • figure out the wiring, lengths/extensions, board, soldering, mounting etc etc
  • cut struts, and think more about the XZ plates
  • figure out a table, planning to bootstrap a torsion box table with some sheets on the floor

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Fun so far
Tom

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Build looks really great so far. You learn from your mistakes. The LR4 was the third, fourth and fifth CNC that I build from V1, the first being the Primo, and even on the third LR4 I messed some things up. That’s life. :smiley:

You’d need to go with option B if you wanted to honour the license. :slight_smile: Also, it’s not much more expensive to just order the board and plates from Ryan including shipping than to order it from Elecrow and source the plates yourself.

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Having used my LR4 with ply endplates up until very recently, I would not have been confident trying to use it to mill aluminium. Even less so with printed plates, though PLA may well actually be better? I’ve not got a good enough grasp of the forces involved to say. Lasered ply just “felt more proper” :sweat_smile:

EDIT: Oops. Did not mean to thread necro I misread the date… Apologies…