whats up youtube it's patrick with nolan c 3d print works and we're back with episode 8 on the large-format 3d printer build this time around we're going to have to continue a little bit more on that top z-axis mount so stay tuned remember this piece from the last video when we put it together as a mock-up but you can see that threaded rod is
just a bit off here's the actual printed part you can see that bearing hold a little to the left in tinkercad i imported my original bottom z-axis to use as a reference point started working on the lining that's inner bearing hole with the bearing placement fixed it was time to
export and get printing here you can see the two pieces original the new one side by side you can see just how much i had to realign that bearing position and everything seems to line up just great take a look at these pics you can see from the front and from the side everything looks to be pretty well on target
everything printed i started mounting them up to the aluminum bars and everything seemed to be going together really well knocking things up a little bit further is where i started to recognize ahead of a few more problems you can see with these two corner pieces here in the linear rail going across there's not a
whole lot of room put on the carriage and it gets even worse i'm hitting in multiple places into tinkercad for a little bit more of a drastic edit here you can see the original piece first thing i did was raise the actual connection to the aluminum bars up about an inch and then just close the gaps up in between this we can keep the original
bracket which already fits on the linear rails and also fits that bearing just find to save on some printing time and a little bit of material started using a couple of different angles to have the base meet the top all of that together it just seemed like i had one other place i was hitting on there and that was actually the front face of the mount
remedy this i went ahead and took that upper piece spun it around a hundred and eighty degrees so the face will actually be on the outside of the printer here's the final piece i headed over to cure and got things going again you can see here in the laird view there's quite a bit of support material going from the bed on up to that aluminum brace point
at this point i just thought a little bit more editing would be beneficial especially since i didn't actually need the brace to be that wide so back in to cure you can see some of the changes i went ahead and close that the size and actually squared out the whole front give me a couple more printing options i could print vertically or sitting as it
is here in this shot to see which one to take less time but also be a little more structurally sound did a little bit of just trimming on the piece to make a little more aesthetically pleasing and again we were off to the burner before actually printing we check it out inside of care again and look a little bit better so we pull up that layered view
go through i have my expected support material for where the aluminum piece actually goes but all of my bottom support materials gone looks like it's ready for print here's a look at the final piece with some of the support still in place i did print vertically with picture of it here installed least mocked up you can see
that it's got some clearance to allow those bolts through all that about does it for this video next week we'll give it another shot and try and get these pieces installed remember if you like this video give it a thumbs up or thumbs down it's your choice and if you want to see more of the videos we do for this
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