Topic: I'm back! (Rebuilding my Solidoodle)
Hey Everybody!
I don't know how many of you remember me, I was pretty active on the forum up until about 2 years ago. Life got a bit crazy (changed occupation, family issues, surgery, a failed business venture, in no particular order) but now it's starting to settle down and it's time to pick up old projects and get everything back on track.
I think this will be a fun project: The goal is going to be documenting fixing my poor old Solidoodle. I have a Mod-t I can use to print parts (even though the print quality is horrible) and I think the end result will be something nice. I was in the middle of rebuilding the SD when my life got.... complicated... so step one is to assess the damage.
The damage found so far:
- I obviously need to finish the carriage replacement I was on. New 8mm rods are in place and I have all the lawsy carriage replacement parts printed but I appear to be short some LM8UUs so i will have to wait a couple days while new ones come in.
- Looks like I was using a well nut as anti-backlash and the rubber on it has split
- I put a RUMBA board on here at some point?! I barely remember this stuff so it is going to be fun relearning everything
- I found half of a cheap E3d knockoff (missing nozzle, i had cut some vanes off of the heatsink to get it to fit properly at one point), half of the original SD extruder, and a nice still in box anemic looking Merlin hotend. I am going to use the Merlin for now.
- The extruder is..... gone. Just nothing left but a couple printed parts.
The upgrades to come:
- Carriage replacement (obviously)
- New extruder (same)
- Braided fishing line belt upgrade (have the fishing line already and I don't know if i have all the belts for the SD still)
- M3 screw upgrade. I have a lot of ball screws and lead screws lying around but I found a beautiful piece of m3 threaded rod on the shelf that I think was destined for this
What can I say, it's good to be back!
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