Hello from Iowa
Hello from Iowa
My H1 is nearly ready for first squirt. I'm planning on going open source as much as possible so I'll be trying out LinuxCNC. I also took a few short videos of what went wrong with my assembly process which I hope to arrange and offer to others as a "Assemble H1 by (bad) Example." Nice to meet you all. Mark
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Re: Hello from Iowa
Nice to meet you also, Mark.
I would love to see the videos on what not too do, I think they can be as important as
the ones that show the correct way.
Welcome to our forum.
Carl, from Ohio
I would love to see the videos on what not too do, I think they can be as important as
the ones that show the correct way.
Welcome to our forum.
Carl, from Ohio
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Re: Hello from Iowa
It'll be fun to see your Machine. Working with linux based cnc is something I want to do, but don't have enough time to do. Thanks for supporing SeeMeCNC!
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Re: Hello from Iowa
Cant wait until the 'bad' tutorial, it will help me as I am still in "purchasing mode" 
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Re: Hello from Iowa
The only thing I made so far is a little video on my extruder posted here: http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=561
Apparently I did not fully seat the bearing in the gear and this resulted in the gear faces touching which caused them to bind a little.
The engineer in me wants to know WHY I am doing something, not just follow the instructions blindly. I ended up taking apart every assembly at some point and re-doing it when I hit the 'Oh NOW I understand!' moment. The pictures help but i still made mistakes.
Another one was beautiful - when assembling the Z axis carriage you are supposed to put one bolt opposite all the others, i.e. with its head and nut reversed. I didn't know why until I added the extruder and wouldn't you know my nuts were touching the extruder (not what you're thinking...) I messed it up again, a simple concept, put the 'head' side toward the extruder since the larger nuts would get too close to the extruder if you don't. I guess I'm the type that has to do it wrong first 
Best Wishes.
Apparently I did not fully seat the bearing in the gear and this resulted in the gear faces touching which caused them to bind a little.
The engineer in me wants to know WHY I am doing something, not just follow the instructions blindly. I ended up taking apart every assembly at some point and re-doing it when I hit the 'Oh NOW I understand!' moment. The pictures help but i still made mistakes.
Another one was beautiful - when assembling the Z axis carriage you are supposed to put one bolt opposite all the others, i.e. with its head and nut reversed. I didn't know why until I added the extruder and wouldn't you know my nuts were touching the extruder (not what you're thinking...
) I messed it up again, a simple concept, put the 'head' side toward the extruder since the larger nuts would get too close to the extruder if you don't. I guess I'm the type that has to do it wrong first Best Wishes.
Re: Hello from Iowa
Roflmao! Ouch, that woulda hurt when it hit 425f!