My New Rostock Max V2 is complete!

sicklittlemonkey · Post by **sicklittlemonkey** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:38 am

Hello all!

I finished my printer build literally last night. In fact last night was mainly calibration. With all the wiring I had to do, when I eventrually came to the end, I thought to myself...there's going to be some wiring and power issues. Motors turning in the wrong direction or not powering up at all, issues with the hot end wiring, problems getting the RAMBo board to work, etc etc.

It took me 4 days to put together and I would have finished earlier had it not been for a cheapo soldering iron that worked for all of a day and then died on me. I needed to solder a joint on a couple of connected wires, I can't remember what they were connected to but I searched and racked my brain for an alternative to melting solder onto the joint. First I took the soldering iron apart hoping to see what the cause was and hopefully rectify it. I cleaned it all up, put it back together and plugged it in but it was stone cold!

So I hit YouTube and saw that someone made a home made soldering iron with a piece of graphite from a pencil, some wire and a 12v battery. I continued my search, knowing there must be someone else on this planet with the same problem as I had and I stumbled upon a video of soldering with a naked flame. You just need a heat sink to connect to the joint. Heat the piece of metal which transfers the heat to the joint which will get it hot enough for the solder to take. Seemed easy enough in the video with his lighter so I gave it a try. Since I don't smoke I have no lighter I found a small candle and used that instead. I found a small paper clip and nestled that in the joint between the two wires and heated it up. And hey presto, one soldered joint!

I thought my soldering troubles were over till I realised I needed to solder the cooling fan to the RAMBo board

[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150727_135829.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150728_124655.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150728_124702.jpg[/img]
Behold! My brand spanking new 3d desktop printer is built and running smoothly. The only fault in the build
was me as I had installed the first top level (that the extruder connects to) incorrectly. This lead to misalignment
of the supporting tower for the filament feed as the filament arms were on the opposite side to the large rectangular hole
the filament was supposed to feed through into the extruder. Since the support arms hung over the opposite side to the rectangular
hole, there was nowhere for the filament to go. In that orientation though I did notice a hole in the base just behind where the extruder was
attached so I drilled a larger hole in the top mount so I could feed the filament through, and then on through the smaller hole and into the extruder.
This worked out fine for me. I reversed the two stands, drill two more holes in the sides for the screws so that they would fit together when reversed
around and then drilled a hole in the top platform to attached them securely to the base. I had to reverse the stands for the arms to get the arms to
fit in the other direction. I hope that all makes some sense.

Below is what I managed to print out so far....
The print on the left was my very first attempt after calibration. The second attempt happened because I was silly and ran out
of filament. Then third time lucky I decided I would just mount the entire spool and allow the printer to take what it needs

I think it turned out alright

The instructions recommended disappearing purple to apply to the hot bed before printing. I am still even
now waiting for this stuff to arrive despite having ordered it well over a week ago. So I improvised and used some masking tape and some
carpet adhesive ontop of that. I didn't want to apply the adhesive directly to the glass. I am fairly sure I can get the making tape off the
bed. It worked extremely well
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150728_214921.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150728_214715.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150728_214725.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150728_214733.jpg[/img]

Peek fan and shroud installed

[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150729_072619.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/20150729_072819.jpg[/img]

I haven't printed the layer fan yet but I will get around to it at the weekend.

Update: Layer fan has now been printed.
[img]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/renegade_9/Mobile%20Uploads/20150801_170829.jpg[/img]

Post by **Eaglezsoar** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 4:42 pm

Thank you for the great pictures and the fabulous job you did building your printer.
Your first prints look very good. A job very well done and thanks for sharing with us.

sicklittlemonkey · Post by **sicklittlemonkey** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 5:46 pm

Eaglezsoar wrote:Thank you for the great pictures and the fabulous job you did building your printer.
Your first prints look very good. A job very well done and thanks for sharing with us.

No problem. Thanks Eagle

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