Mendel90 Y Carriage assembly

Completed the Y carriage assembly. Just a few nuts and bolts make for about half an hours work.

Mendel90 Z axis

I completed the assembly of my Mendel90 Z axis over the weekend. It's going together really well and I'm enjoying the build. No messing around getting threaded bars lined up makes it so much easier.

Mendel90 X Motor Assembly

With the Christmas break affecting dispatch and delivery of parts, the replacement 15way IDC D types, which I broke due to an unfortunate combination of inebriation and stupidity, arrived yesterday.

I've now been able to complete the X axis motor assembly of my Mendel90 kit.

I like the way all the cables are bundled in a single ribbon cable. My current printer has many single cables that although functional, look untidy.
It was was easy to build and it looks good with the neat cable routing:

Having already completed the Z axis motor assembly, the next step is the Z-axis.

Happy Holiday

I've been changing between PLA and ABS plastics over the Christmas holidays. Every time I flush the extruder from one plastic to another I seem to encounter blockages and general problems, which result at least in me having to dismantle the extruder.
Left to a single plastic, they seem fine. So I've decided to have multiple extruders, one for each plastic type.

So over the holidays, I made myself a new 0.4mm extruder hot end:

Mendel90 full kit build continued

See Nophead's post here for full kit details.

I continued with Mendel90 full kit build today. Due to my inability to follow English instructions I messed up the ribbon cable for the previous stage (might have been beer). So whilst awaiting for replacements to arrive, I progressed to the Z axis motors:

Mendel 90 full kit stages 2 and 3

See Nophead's post here for full kit details.

With all the build up to Xmas I managed to sneak in enough time to complete stages 2 and 3 of the Mendel90 kit today with help from son Josh.

Stage 2 is quite trivial and involves bolting a fan to the side of the frame. The fan I had on hand needed some different bolts which I conveniently had lying around:

The X Idler assembly was quick to assemble and took about half an hour

Mendel90 Full Kit Build Stage 1

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I've completed the first stage of my Mendel90 full kit build. Instructions so far are great, and once I'd taken the protective film off the Dibond sheets I could fully appreciate the quality of the CNC machined parts.

As mentioned in my last post, I agreed to take a some 'offcuts' from Nophead to get me going sooner, which is why the gantry is in silver Dibond, and the base and sides black. Normal kits will be the same colour!

One thing I really appreciated was that all the fastener vitamins were in labelled bags. This made it a lot quicker for me to find the right parts:

So here is stage 1 complete, total time, about an hour.