Building the Thingotron Part Two: Z Axis is go!

The X axis carriage is carried on the two vertical smooth Z axis rods, and raised and lowered by the turning of two lengths of threaded rod fed through captive nuts on the X axis endpieces.

Fitting the carriage onto all these rods and getting them all square is somewhat fiddly, and somewhere along the way there was a slight accident and one of the lengths of threaded rod got dropped and bent. Oops.

Building the Thingotron: Part One

Having just finished a maths degree with the Open University, I decided that I needed a new project to fill my time. 3D printing seemed like a good thing to try.

A RepRapPro Mono Mendel kit was duly ordered. And eventually delivered.

I got most of the way through the first stage of building the frame before we went on holiday. But when we got back the garden had exploded into life so several weekends were lost to making lots and lots of jam and chutney. And relatives visiting. And school term starting. And costume-making for my daughter. And going to J-Con 2013....

So its taken me a while to get back to the build, but today I have some time to get on with it!