Fysetc Bear Kit Build (complete)

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I failed in my duty to document this build, but I got a little carried away. I was waiting on some parts to come in to finish my Switchwire build, and printing parts at the same time, when I found I had a few hours of spare time. So I decided to start printing the parts for this build. Not surprisingly, the mail didn't arrive in time, so I was left with more time. Plan was to just get the frame finished and put it to the side while I finished the SW. Plans changed, and it only took me about 6 hours total to throw it together (with waiting on small prints that were not mentioned in the manual).

Speaking of that last sentiment: when are these 'creators' of these machines going to provide ample and complete documentation? I just quit a job because of their lack of documentation (though it was a bigger project than these toys are). Voron is horrible about complete docs, having the user jump through hoops and find the missing text on their own...VzBot...WOW! that is a mess of some documentation (of which he fixed on the fly to address a question I had - so kudos to him and his team on discord!). Now this Bear build. This guy assumes you are only upgrading your original Prusa and not building from a kit. And both Bear and Prusa are horrible at the documentation, with Prusa always throwing in a "don't forget to make sure this part is such and such..." right in the middle of the process, instead of at the top where you can see what you'll need. But I digress, and fix the documentation on my own, for my own sake.

Anyway, rant aside, here is the completed build. Had some initial issues last night with firing it up for the first time, a Z calibration issue which seems to plague Prusa's MK3S/+ to no end as well. My fix was just moving the top mounts on zed up a bit, and off we go! And a peek at what is going to be built next, after the Switchwire...