Tower Wire Clearance on Idlers
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:06 am
First post but I have been lurking for a couple of months (love the community here) and ended up purchasing a Max V2 kit last week. Its been a blast putting it together so far when time allows!
So I started my build and ran into a snag that I didn't see anything in the manual about, mostly because I probably went off the reservation a bit. I saw all the cool stuff about people modding their printers so it could support 2 hot ends and such and really wanted to do that for my build. But since it's my first printer and to try and keep complexity down until I feel comfortable and manage to dial this thing in and get really good with 1 hotend/extruder, I compromised with myself and only bought the wiring to support dual hot ends/extruders as I gleaned this would be a huge pain to do in the future and wanted to save myself a tear down at some point.
So enough with the setup of why I am asking. The issue I am having is on a few of the towers with them all the way down to the stop screw unless I pull the wires really tight and flatten them out they rub on the idler for the belt. I tired securing them with a zip tie on the outside of the hole and that seemed to kind of work but I am afraid if things move around or something it might touch the idler and rub through the insulation eventually causing a short. Not sure if anyone else has run into this or has any ideas on how to safely route these wires to keep them from rubbing but any ideas would be a huge help. Attaching a picture of the rubbing. I was thinking about moving the tower up a tiny bit but am worried that would screw up the tower height or something else later on.
So I started my build and ran into a snag that I didn't see anything in the manual about, mostly because I probably went off the reservation a bit. I saw all the cool stuff about people modding their printers so it could support 2 hot ends and such and really wanted to do that for my build. But since it's my first printer and to try and keep complexity down until I feel comfortable and manage to dial this thing in and get really good with 1 hotend/extruder, I compromised with myself and only bought the wiring to support dual hot ends/extruders as I gleaned this would be a huge pain to do in the future and wanted to save myself a tear down at some point.
So enough with the setup of why I am asking. The issue I am having is on a few of the towers with them all the way down to the stop screw unless I pull the wires really tight and flatten them out they rub on the idler for the belt. I tired securing them with a zip tie on the outside of the hole and that seemed to kind of work but I am afraid if things move around or something it might touch the idler and rub through the insulation eventually causing a short. Not sure if anyone else has run into this or has any ideas on how to safely route these wires to keep them from rubbing but any ideas would be a huge help. Attaching a picture of the rubbing. I was thinking about moving the tower up a tiny bit but am worried that would screw up the tower height or something else later on.