I bet you could print a better tool than this. homedepot.com/p/Stanley-Miter-Box <https://www.homedepot.com/p/Stanley-Miter-Box-STHT20360/311276301> Use a fine-tooth hack saw. It is easier to cut a fiber tube than a same-size hardwood dowel or same-size steel tube.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 5:38 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On 12/1/22 00:47, Chris Albertson wrote: > > Cutting square tubing is no harder than cutting molding around a door > > frame. Use a miter saw. A fine tooth hacksaw blade works well for > > carbon fiber. > > > > My mitre saw is a 12" Bosch chop saw, the fawncy high $ articulated one. > And I've a new carbide blade. New & carbide=dull. > > > If you don't have a miter saw, print a plastic guide block that holds the > > tube and has a slot for your hacksaw. > > I have considered that too, but in the form of an 18x18mm stuffer that's > sacrificial. > > > > Finish with a sanding block to make the edge nice. I've cut a lot of > > fiber tubes, sharp saws work well. but glass and other fibers dull tools > > really fast. > > > > You can make a really strong part by gluing fiber tube into 3D printed > > blocks > > > > That is essentially what I have in mind. But moving the tube sideways so > one run of the X belt runs inside it. Shorten it maybe 10 mm, and mill a > couple slots in the other ends idler so it remains adjustable. > Shortening it a few mm will lengthen the belt and narrow the carriage, > gaining back some X room lost by the basic design and even more lost by > my 4 wheel carriage design. > > Somewhere along the line, move the x home sw to the left end where they > were too cheap to use 6" more wire to reach it. That will require > rebuilding marlin or klipper. Shrug. Turn the whole axis end for end and > put it in some cable chain I already have. Neat but flying weight for > the Y motor to throw around & its in trouble already on an Ender5plus. > It loses Y home, I suspect because the way undersized psu is folding > back when using gyroid infill at more than 60 for speed.. Everything > else it can run at 200 or more. When I get done playing, the bed heat > and motor load will be removed from that supply, bed heat will be 62VAC, > and motor power will be a 650 watt 48 volt supply. > > Take care & stay well. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
