So it starts - Voron 0.1 build

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Mistake #146

Well I decided to get on with the build this evening. Clearly my laziness has angered the great Sky God since it appears to be raining enough to drown everything. Since, I wasn't going to be going outside to complain about hoodlums on their skate boards and children playing noisily I might as well do something else useful.

I vaguely remember, from weeks back, when attaching the cable chain mount to the kirigami bed thinking to myself "that will be impossible to remove" once assembled into the printer......not enough room to get in and remove the screws [I should've listened to that inner voice, and questioned it a bit more].

When I fitted the bed and was running the cables and trying to route them nicely and secure them, I realised that firstly I had fitted the cable chain mount on the wrong side of the bed:

How I managed to do that or miss that, given how much faff the assembling/fixing/kludging of the Kirigami bed has been, I don't know. It is perfectly clear on the github instructions:

Not only had I fitted the cable chain mount in the wrong orientation I had also managed to fit the wrong bloody end of the cable chain. The end that I had on the bed would not allow the cable chain to flex/bend sufficiently so the top of the cable chain could curl over nicely as the bed goes up and down.

I would love to say that I noticed that at the same instant that I realised I had fitted the mount on the wrong side of the bed......but no! It was my second attempt at trying to route things and attach the cable chain proper that I realised that I had the ends switched around. So I guess that would technically be Mistake #147 (possible Mistake #146b)

Fortunately, other than having to remove the back-panel to give enough access, I did not have to dismantle anything. Eventually after much more time that I wanted I managed to get things corrected and now have the bed mounted and the cable routed through the cable chain:

 

[mvdveer]

It is amazing how often this can happen. A slip of concentration, tiredness, and oh old grumpiness all to blame. At the time the skateboarders might have been around or even the noisy children. Wouldn't call it idiotic, it just is. My motto in teaching is no mistakes only lessons learned. And boy have I learned a lot of lessons building a Voron printer

 

[Buurman]

Keep at it!! and keep posting, you made me laugh, cause.. this shit happens to everyone...

I have builded now 2 Vorons 2.4 R2s and one is silent, other one makes more noise printing.. Its making me crazy..

But the second one.. I just build better.... first one, even paying so much attention to it.. I think there is some force on the rails, even though... I cant feel it with belts attached, they seem the same.. yet.. they are not.

And I still found things.. like... "oh crap" I should have done it this way... aaah, its just the way it is! 

But thanks for the laugh   

[claudermilk]

This is just part of building a printer.  Been there done that. Unbuilding some stuff is just part of the process.

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That's what I like about this forum everyone is supportive and just as likely to put their own negative outcomes out there for all to see....oh, and are probably all card-carrying GOMs (at heart). Thanks guys for the words of encouragement.

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Well like some others, I'm starting to suspect the universe is conspiring against me.....nothing to do with my own [lack of] attention to detail (oh no, definitely not that). I suppose part of the problem was, I'd run out of goats (for sacrificing) and had substituted some spare Gorals that I had lying around. Well, they are all Caprinae so I thought it would be OK. I even increased the sacrifice multiplier on the Voron Goat Sacrifice Calculator.....didn't work. Guess it shows you can't make random substitutions without knowing why it worked in the first place. All of which brings me to

Mistake #148

I was assembling the mini-afterburner. Since I'd decided on integrating a klicky probe (and using the integrated mount) I had printed the cowl from the klicky github. Specifically "Dragonfly_BMO_Cowling_wKlicky.stl". I figured that I had the BMO hotend so that'd be the one........

I was careful. I test fitted all the fans and the MR8 bearings.It all fitted, nothing stuck. I even managed to get the piddly-little 3007 hotend fan pushed in  without sticking my thumb through it and ripping out the fan blades (like I did on my first voron build).

For whatever reasons, I never though about [test] fitting the hotend itself, not until I came to fit it for real:

The damned holes did not line up, the hotend was squint. Yes, I printed the wrong Cowl! I had even printed it twice (in case I destroyed one when fitting the threaded heat-insert for the kilcky mount). If you look really closely in the reflection on the nozzle you can see a really grumpy old beardy bloke (wearing a Goral skin hat).

Well I'm printing another cowl (hopefully the correct one) and I'm not looking forward to trying to pop all the components back out (although I might just cheat and cut them out).

 

[mvdveer]

Glad it is not just me. You and I may have the longest builds ever due to universal conspiracies against the GOM club.

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Continually snatching defeat from the jaws of victory......

[smirk]

As the words of the song goes "Why does it always rain on me?"

Well reprinted the correct cowl and checked that the hotend fitted and was orientated correctly this time. Success!

Then I managed to get all the components removed from the old cowl with the help of some cutters. I got the 3007 fan fitted again without destroying it (twice in a row that's good for my  fat sausage fingers)  so I was feeling up-beat. Here we go thinks I.......

Re-fitting the first part cooling fan and it  slid in beautifully and clicked into place....but clearly I was not careful enough with the wiring. When checking the wires, I thought "Hang on, ones missing". Yup I'd managed to slice through one of the wires attached to the fan (clearly pinched it between the fan housing and cowl:

 

You couldn't make this up. It's salvageable, although I don't look forward to trying to solder the wire to the miniscule terminals inside the fan housing...I might try and cheat and just splice the wire but that's for another day....

 

[mvdveer]

3 minutes ago, smirk said:

Re-fitting the first part cooling fan and it  slid in beautifully and clicked into place....but clearly I was not careful enough with the wiring.

You're not the first, you'll not be the last. I decided after building the V0.1, that it was not for grumpy old men like me cause everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Because of this exact reason, the V0.1 now has a very noisy 24V fan instead of the 5v, as down under I cannot get a local supplier that stocks 5V fans that size

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@mvdveer Ooo! Did you have to go for a "thicker" fan rather than the miniscule 7mm, presumably that would need a minor mod to the cowl? Certainly it would make the wiring simpler (that PICO has 3 fan ports) and it would save having to hijack a 5V line

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6 minutes ago, mvdveer said:

that it was not for grumpy old men like me cause everything that can go wrong,

Guess I'm turning into my father, he resents getting old with the associated loss of dexterity,sight, strength, you name it. Clearly I'm cussed as well as grumpy and refuse to give in (Note to self: it's OK to change your mind and fail gracefully in the face of 3rd degree soldering iron burns.....it was all part of the plan)

(Note to self:remember to edit this post to make it look like it was all part of the plan)

[mvdveer]

4 minutes ago, smirk said:

 

 

4 minutes ago, smirk said:

"thicker" fan

Yes, a 3010 rather than 3007. Had to print a different hotted mounts. The cowling stayed the same. As I have the LGX mini mod, It had the STL's for either 3007 or 3010 fan. Had two 3007 fans ripped the wire from the solder when I tried fitting the hotted assembly. Being not so nimble anymore, struggled keeping the fan wiring out of the way and the result you know - broken fan wires. See two files

 

hotend_mount_revo-voron_3010_fan.stlhotend_mount_revo-voron_3007_fan.stl

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Well after a hiatus of a month! I'm back. I was hoping for a kazoo fan fare and an awesome firework display spelling out "Grumpy Old Men Unite!" but it kinda went ttthhhhrrrrpppbbbttt and I got the letters mixed up so got "Demon trumping yule!". Now all my neighbours think I'm a devil worshiper who hates Christmas in addition to being a GOM who grumbles to himself (and merely dislikes the commercialisation of Christmas).

I did repair the wire on the fan, last month, but I chickened out trying to solder it on and simply spliced it. However, it worked.

So I've been farting about on other projects ressurecting some of my VAXen, sorting the firewall and general procrastinating  but I thought "Enough! Today's the day". So I started assembling the mini-afterburner. I made sure the cooling fans all worked before assembly (they did). I was very careful. It took me about 20minutes to install the most awkward part-cooling fan making sure I didn't pinch the wires again. I even put the repaired fan on the "easy" side where the wires just feed out of the back, rather than having to feed underneath the fan body. After getting them installed, I checked the fans still spun  (and they did). Hoorah,my fat sausage fingers have not got in the way (well they did significantly increase the time taken but slow and steady wins the race).

Everything is looking good and still working. So I prepare to permanently install the Dragon Hotend. I've already test mounted it,so I know it works. I reach down......I pick up the mini-afterburner cowling............and the wire drops off the part cooling fan. Not the wire I had spliced. No, the other wire! It just dropped off!

 

Someone up there hates me. It's the one part I don't have spares of. I could've ordered a set in my "month off". That'll larn me for covetting another mans PIs

[mvdveer]

5 hours ago, smirk said:

I don't have spares of. I could've ordered a set in my "month off".

This happened to me when building the Voron 0.1. Perhaps it is a design flaw in the way the fans get mounted but I can to see another way of achieving a good "Voron" look that is functional for the V0.1. That's why I now have a set of spares. Could not easily get hold of the 3007 fan for the hotted and thus have a 3010 in there. 

But like you fat fingers and failing eyesight are athecause of lots of "issues" when building printers - my latest was failed crimping. Just finished re - crimping a wire harness and rewiring the switchwire. And boy does it feed the grumpiness!

And then, I don't think the Voron0.1 was intended for GOM's like me and you - but still we do it.

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8 hours ago, mvdveer said:

And then, I don't think the Voron0.1 was intended for GOM's like me and you - but still we do it.

Yup! And even if they tell us it wasn't for us, we still do it , just so we could prove the whipper-snappers wrong.

[Buurman]

I kinda feel the need to build a Voron 0.1 I think.... I cant help it....  

[mvdveer]

17 minutes ago, Buurman said:

I cant help it...

Do it!

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3 hours ago, Buurman said:

I kinda feel the need to build a Voron 0.1 I

Yeah, what  @mvdveer said! Do it! Do it! Do it! The whipper snappers are laughing behind your back! Prove them wrong!!!

[Buurman]

Whahahahaaha! oh crap....what did I do....

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@Buurman committed yourself, I would say sold your soul but you did that the day you joined TeamFDM (it's in the T&Cs)......build it! build it!

[Buurman]

I am going on vacation but I am ordering an Voron 0.1 and a 2.4 during my vacation, so I can start building when I get back!

Otherwise I probably have to cut a finger off or something, and that will make things even harder...

[Buurman]

Maybe we should start adding year to the stats date  

[smirk]

Yeehah, now we can have a debate about which calendric system we should use for the year chronology. However, perhaps we've simply chosen this build diary as the epoch of the new era and therefore there is no year (yet) as we're still at 0?!  That might be easier, at the rate I'm going we'll be worrying about the Sun entering it's Red Giant phase.

[mvdveer]

8 hours ago, smirk said:

build it! build it!

 

6 hours ago, Buurman said:

ordering an Voron 0.1

Oh yeah baby! Here comes @Buurman's V0.  @smirk - he'll want to joint the GOM's club after that.