SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Broken belt and y-axis carriage

Re: Broken belt and y-axis carriage

2013-12-20T07:20:41Z

Well at least it didn't break the jigsaw.

It should be easy to repair the belt if it did just rip the end hole out, I've used fabric and epoxy to make similar repairs.

Re: Broken belt and y-axis carriage

2013-12-20T06:20:44Z

Alternatively: Where did belt snap? If close to edge, could punch new hole and just get longer M3 screw to attach to carriage.

Re: Broken belt and y-axis carriage

2013-12-20T00:01:55Z

That looks great! I'll post my results when I come back from vacation and do it . I like the no wrap pulley, and I will order some spectra line (or something mentioned in the thread).

Thanks!

Re: Broken belt and y-axis carriage

2013-12-19T23:40:38Z

You should be fine to glue it back together. just make sure the superglue or abs glue cures completely before you put stress on it.

This should work as a substitute for the belt and be easy to get ahold of.
http://www.soliforum.com/topic/4073/bel … -2-techie/

Broken belt and y-axis carriage

2013-12-19T23:31:16Z

I finally got my printer to the UK, after posting it to myself nearly 3 months ago... but it's borken

I'm looking for suggestions to fix the y-axis carriage and belt. Basically the extruder assembly flew off, snapping the belt and lower carriage. I have all the parts, and could probably superglue everything but the belt to try and print more parts... but I thought I'd put it all out there for advice first.

Q1: Where do I order new belts? Note that it's about $42 shipping to the UK, so I'm reluctant to get a small part from solidoodle. I do find the belts online, eg http://www.americanmademro.com/shop/pc/ … 8p5218.htm.

Q2: Is anything likely to prevent me from just gluing this back together?

Q3: Should I print the stuff and rebuild as in this post: http://www.soliforum.com/topic/2813/pri … -consumer/

Cheers,
Alejandro

Here is a picture of the damage (bottom of the carriage hadn't been found yet).