Also got it belted up, but found out afterwards that I used a grease that is controversial on the rails (superlube with syncolor). It’s recommended by LDO and Nero3D uses it in his video, but many folks on the Voron Discourse say it’s a no-go. I’d rather not risk it, so I’m uninstalling the rails, cleaning/degreasing them, and reapplying some white lithium grease.

  • IMALlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A list of gotchas is a great idea. Here are a few that got me:

    • sort your 16t and 20t pullies into two groups and separate them. It’s easy to inadvertently grab the wrong one if you’re not paying a ton of attention
    • space your z rails higher than the manual says. The only reason for mounting them super low is style points, but it makes installing the corner covers really hard. I had to loosen all my rails and work them up because they were too low initially
    • if you have a wiring harness and PCB anything, double check the pin to pin wiring against the PCB pinout. My hardness was not intended for the PCB XY endstop I printed, which caused some initial head scratching when the limit switches were behaving oddly
    • don’t agonize too much over belt resonance
    • there is a slim model for the z-end stop I had to dig up as the one in the main repo didn’t fit my build for some reason
    • you’re probably going to print too many parts. This is ok
    • you’re also probably going to print too few parts. This is also ok