Pictures of the drag chain install on my machine starting at the X carriage working back. Your guide was a fantastic starting point, and although I didn’t make the parts exactly the same, 2 of them are very very close. I heat set M3 brass inserts in the printed parts to mount the drag chains, and a combination of them and 1/4-20 rivet nuts to mount the parts to the machine. I’m a huge fan of quality steel rivnuts on assmeblies like this that are too thin to tap, and too pretty to weld. BluPrint filament is making me happy so far, it’s super tough stuff. I was only just able to break a 4mm thick piece of it, and I’ve got crazy monkey grip strength.
I don’t have any of the wires routed yet, but I don’t anticipate any issues. I haven’t tried swapping the Y axis motors yet to evaluate the effect on the motor extension splice location. I anticipate I’ll do that today or this weekend depending on when I get back to assembly. I have some TIG welding to finish first to make the water pan a single assembly and able to 100% drain.
