Long overdue update

  I apologize for the silence the last few months, I have not been in a place where I could do much with the printer lately but I didn't let it go completely I have been designing replacement parts I have a new X carriage built and printed that should work nicely and have been working on the final version of the Y carriage/X carriage holder, I just made a few (I hope) final tweaks to it I just need to print them out now.

  I was going to rebuild the printers CoreXY mechanism and bought all the parts I needed to finally increase it's size to what it's final size was to be, a 2000 mm precision hardened steel shaft to cut to the right lengths, CoreXY plate water jet cut, aluminum bed (the middle of the plate), second head etc. but what if I got it all ripped apart and realized something was printed wrong and I doubt I would be able to get the old parts back together in a decent fashion to print again as it took me a week to get it to work last well time so I decided to buy some t-slot aluminum extrusion and make a frame out of it and put all the new parts into a second slightly smaller printer.

  I will use the "Bubblegum Printer" as I have been calling (held together with bubblegum and bailing wire) to make the smaller printer and then use the smaller printer to rebuild the larger printer.

  I have the aluminum and I SO wished I would have used it on the original printer, I wanted to but I couldn't find it at a decent price and so went with the L shaped angle aluminum and am so kicking myself, I finally found the extrusion for a decent price and it is cheaper than what I paid for the angle aluminum, ROB-O Printer is so wobbly without the sides, and I mean REALLY wobbly even with four rivets per corner two on each side and bracing, even with the sides it can still flex, I put the extrusion frame together and what a difference, it is rock solid and has no flex whatsoever it doesn't budge a fraction of a millimeter and is so nice and square, I used corner pieces I printed on ROB-O and will reprint them in the final color when it is up and printing as it will print SO much better.

  The X and Y carriage designs I have made are so rock solid and have zero play, zilch, none yet glide very smoothly, I had worked them out and printed the final X carriage (I hope) and some test Y carriages in may but have not had time to come back to them until now.

  I am going to call the new printer ROB-O Junior until/unless I can come up with a better name, I am horrid at names. ;-) It will have a build area of 9" x 9" x 15" tall, of course that can change as I build it as it is a work in progress, watch for build posts.