Shoulda asked. This would have been nice earlier today before I did it manually. 
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All black looks great too, just sayin, lol
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Ugh, currently working on more polished content. But, sharing a rough draft now that hopefully inspires and helps people with their builds…
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Is your Z limit switch rotated 90 degrees?
Yeah, well spotted, that was the RC2 design. My LR4 frankenstein build has parts from RC2, RC3 and release. Ryan changed XZ Plate and Z endstop design in RC3 to something LR3 owners will be more familiar with.
Here’s James’ RC3 build…
Have tried to clarify in my build guide/montage which parts are RC2 and changed for final release. Assembly is very similar, so I left the content in for now…
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It does sort of give you an idea of what happens. It’s like those nature timlapses, you don’t see many details but you can tell seasons are passing.
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What is zoomtube? Is it how you make your youtubes?
zoomtube!
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Added more instructions, y belt, vac hose, xbelt…nearly through assembly now.
Added parts to printables, peter plates, and the top editable section, I will do a set of handles with this for those that remove your machine a lot.
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Getting excited. Should be doing an official release when I get the inventory in again.
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Is there any chance to modify the YZ plates for my motors? Anyway, I am still waiting for the parcel with the aluminium XZ plates, I was just wondering.
Not yet, still chipping away a the list of things to do.
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Would the struts be the same size as the LR3 if we are doing a direct upgrade by chance? I know they are different design wise
No they are different. Machine is set up to make its own just like the lr3 was. Or now you can purchase a set made for you, with laser customization if you want,
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Well shoot, was gonna use the same length to cut the new struts out with the lr3, have the openscad file just need to measure, just unsure of where to measure from without building it first since I was reusing my rails n such
Measure the rail length and then add 0.5 mm for the gantry dimension. The rails should be just slightly shorter than the overall gantry (surface to surface of XZ plates). The OpenScad generator automatically makes the strut plates just slightly shorter than the gantry dimension. But the brace holes are positioned correctly to make the gantry dimension accurate.
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Um? Did you miss the release Ryan did on printables?
Wait a sec, are there 2 Ryans? That’s the only thing that makes sense given how much you both pull off.
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I suspect Ryan did a soft release for the LR4 launch and that what he does next is more formal with the front page getting updated and making some attempts at more loudly telling the world LR4 is here.
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Duh! Clones are well worth the money, the other guy is di
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Sorry about him, he is not allowed on the internets since that debacle 4 years ago.
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