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<\/a><\/p>\nI measured it, designed what I wanted, and printed it on the Museum of Science’s RepRap (it printed its first enhancement part).<\/p>\n
Last post, I had us caught up to January 23rd 2013. Let’s keep going. Today is March 18th, 2014. Just over a year behind.\n
So I was working on the child RepRap that MY RepRap had built, so I could give it to the Museum of Science. During the last post I’d done its first print and the traditional minimug toast. Now I had to get the endstops working.<\/p>\n
This was my first Prusa Mendel (IT2) build, so I didn’t know how the endstops would go on (in the original Sells Mendel the optical endstop mounts were all integrated into the build, but on the Prusa Mendel you have a lot of “flexibility”). I decided that I still wanted to use opto-endstops (vs mechanical ones), but that made it more difficult to figure out where the endstop flags should go (and I don’t like the idea of using glue for anything).<\/p>\n
For the Z axis, I wanted to design a small opto-flag holder for Z (adapted from the endstop holder for Z). I set up the opto-endstop in a helping hands aligator clip to help measure what the piece should look like, and put the original z-endstop-holder (that I was adapting) on the X axis:<\/p>\n