Hello All,
found this beautiful project some weelks ago and started printing all the needed 3D Parts. Now it comes to sourcing the needed hardware parts which are not printable for me.
Is it needed to use the v1e-touch plate or can i use and install any touch plate which is available for me? Asking only as if i order the v1e touch plate to germany the shipping costs are way too expensive. Would love to have a v1e shop in europe and order everything from there.
Regards
BoxSon
You can use what you want. Or make it yourself out of a thin plate or a metal ruler. I have made my own.
Sounds great, all i need would be a plate of which i know the exact hight and some wires for wiring it to the board?
Sorry for asking maybe childish questions, i’m totally new to this CAM/CNC stuff. I come from 3D printing and start reading and learning this CNC things.
You are absolutely right and remember an Alligator Clip. There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.
Here is a stupid comment: 
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Sorry man, my bad
If you want a touch plate similar to what V1 sells, I’ve seen touch plates built from a feeler gauge like are in this set:
And and you can use any conductive materal of consistent thickness, even if you don’t know its thickness. You can use your machine to determine the thickness. Probe against the plate, remove the plate, lower the bit until it is just touching the material, and look at how far you lowered the bit.
As for the wiring, it is best practice to wire the sensor pin to the plate and the ground pin to the clip. That way, if for some reason the bit is grounded, your probing will work.
I’m not sure where V1 is posting the probing code these days, but you will have to make a simple modification in that code for the specific thickness of your plate. I believe the probing code is slightly different depending on whether you are running FluidNC or Marlin.
That was just wrong… Now that crap will be in my head all day… 
This is probably the least expensive option, just aluminum duct tape and wires with alligator clips
https://youtu.be/aT_9LtDPnKw?feature=shared
Hey Box,
I am from Germany as well and since you will have to order the aluminium plates as well (since you can‘t have them manufactured by someone else per the license) you might as well order the Jackpot and drivers from Ryan as well.
Theoretically another touchplate does work, I use another one as well and I also did source my first Primo locally, but that one didn‘t have aluminium plates.
What you can do is print those plates first and then cut them as your second project after the strut plates. 
Greetings from Oldenburg.
/edit: that‘s a lot of „as well…“
As well it should be
You don’t have to use a paper-thin touch plate – it can be any thickness you like; I’m currently using this one from Amazon.
I use the same one. You might find this handy, I designed it to make the probe easier to use and also hang nicely on the LR4 core.
Very nice! I’ll definitely be printing that one. Thanks for sharing!
