1 Topic by Drew Diller

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Topic: Printer head cable bundle catching on left Y belt. Suggestions?

I don't have a picture of this at the moment, but when the print head goes is on the left side of the print bed, the cable bundle (feeding from the rear of the case to the print head) will start rubbing and bending the left Y belt. At some point, the Y belt will become tight enough and fling the bundle to the top of the case where it belongs, with some ugly sounds.

I could easily fix this by binding the bundle to the top of the case, but this would make case removal difficult.

Anyone else encounter this? What did you do about it?

2 Reply by elmoret (edited by elmoret 2013-02-08 16:06:31)

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Re: Printer head cable bundle catching on left Y belt. Suggestions?

Drew Diller wrote:

Anyone else encounter this?

Yes. Have you done a search?

Fourth result for "cable":

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/1224/mod … dle-guide/

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3 Reply by Drew Diller

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Re: Printer head cable bundle catching on left Y belt. Suggestions?

Yes.

Forum search software can bite me.

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Re: Printer head cable bundle catching on left Y belt. Suggestions?

elmoret wrote:
Drew Diller wrote:

Anyone else encounter this?

Yes. Have you done a search?

Fourth result for "cable":

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/1224/mod … dle-guide/

Good work.

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