{"id":2606,"date":"2013-03-21T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2013-03-21T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:40:22","slug":"finishing-the-rostock-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/finishing-the-rostock-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the Rostock-Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find that getting a 3D printer working (i.e. printing parts) is relatively straightforward. But getting it FINISHED takes just as much time. Over the last month I have been working on finalizing all of the little bits of my Rostock-Mini that will take it from a “working printer” to something I am willing to put on a desktop and show off.<\/p>\n

First, I needed a spool roller. I could have mounted the spool beside the printer on top of one of the many<\/a> tabletop<\/a> bearing<\/a> spool<\/a> rollers<\/a> on Thingiverse, but I really wanted the footprint of the printer to be self contained, so I decided to mount the spool horizontally above the printer, and of course, designed my own horizontal spool roller system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The biggest threat to a “finished” look is wires. Lots and lots of wires. Lets count them up… 4 per servo (16 so far), 2 per end stop (6 more makes 24!), 2 for each heater (extruder\/bed) and temp sensor (extruder\/bed) and fan (10 more make 34!) plus a few more to power the whole thing! <\/p>\n

I tackled the power inlet and power switch (a.k.a. Emergency stop!) first, by designing a power inlet block<\/a> to fit my jack and switch. Although not taking full advantage of the medium, I’ve found that 3D printers do a good job making custom front panels. <\/p>\n

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I shortened all of the wires under the base to size and then covered the servos and power wires with a wire mesh. (Wire management, in the form of extra crimp receptacles so that I could make custom wire lengths and wire mesh added $30 to the project cost…and quite a bit of time. After an hours work with my smallest needle nose pliers, I’ll be quite happy to outsource the population of crimp connectors.)<\/p>\n

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Luckily, with the Rostock-Mini, a good number of the wires are under the base, but even if you didn’t choose to put your extruder servo up top like I did, you’d still have to deal with getting quite a few wires from the endstops and print head down to the base. My current plan is a big long length of wire mesh. (Did I mention that I like this stuff?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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