Hello from Los Angeles!

[biancosplanco]

Hi all,

Architecture grad student @ USC here! I purchased a Rostock Max v3 for my birthday that'll be arriving in a few days.

This will be my first 3d printer and more importantly first time assembling a complex electronic machine! I have all the required tools, but does anyone have any advice that might better prepare me for assembling my Rostock Max?

Very excited to assemble it and get printing!

Cheers,

Matthew

[geneb]

Only drink beer AFTER.

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[Xenocrates]

Hi all,

Architecture grad student @ USC here! I purchased a Rostock Max v3 for my birthday that'll be arriving in a few days.

This will be my first 3d printer and more importantly first time assembling a complex electronic machine! I have all the required tools, but does anyone have any advice that might better prepare me for assembling my Rostock Max?

Very excited to assemble it and get printing!

Cheers,

Matthew

Few things for you: Cable management is your FRIEND. If cables go from on place to another place next to each other, wrap them somehow to make bundles now rather than tangles later.
BUY a crimper. Doesn't matter if it's a cheap one, but buy one. Crimping connectors with needlenose pliers suck, and even if you don't have to at first for the V3 (I have no idea), you probably will have to eventually.
Don't use a cheap soldering iron. temperature controller or bust (you can do it, but a temp controlled 75W iron is so much nicer than the 25W Homedepot special I started out with).
Consider adding an SSR to control the bed. This means you don't necessarily need a bulky wire coming back from the Rambo to the base, and you can easily change bed power supplies later if you wanted to.
Much as the printer will be your friend, do not share cake with it. The build plate is also an inappropriate place to serve cake from.
Make friends with the electrician for your dorm/lab/apartment/wherever you're keeping it. It is possible you will be seeing a lot of them in the future.