What do you mean 14hrs+ passed? Anyways, here’s a quick recap!

Frame Assembly and Even More Printing!

6/25/2026

On a kinda windy day in NYC, printing continues! But hold up, what’s this? Yes, it’s also extrusions cutting day! While printing the stands for the bottom of the printer (after printing a whole bunch of gussets the previous day) after optimizing the print settings, I did some quick reviewing of the extrusion and rod cut lengths and then realized that I miscounted the middle frame y extrusions, it should’ve been three instead of two. So there wasn’t enough length for this extra extrusion (the tmm extrusion). Yeah. Anyways, not shortening the print area by 6cm to get the length, so calculated the linear rod cut lengths and headed downstairs.

Huge thanks to my dad for cutting all these extrusions and rods! Now that I think about it, I did work with a blade saw up down thing before (idk what its called, a cold saw but its not cold and goes to higher rpms), but not with a handheld grinder before (i think that’s what it’s called?). Anyways, I learned that the little aluminum chips (that you can’t eat unfortunately) is actually the material, since you lose material every time you cut! This means that some extrusions are a little shorter, but the gussets helped work fine with this!

Anyways, after seeing real sparks from the rods getting cut and theneating dinner, finished printing the stands and then realized the bmm extrusion doesn’t have any support. Yeah. Anyways, counted the number of extrusions and ended that day starting a little bit of assembly!

6/26/2026

Frame assembly day! Not much to say other than it involved roughly 5 hours of manual screwing with a screwdriver (using a drill did not really end that well, yes, I tried, probably a skill issue though).

Anyways, printed a good amount of tool base stuff at the same time (the tool base print fell on my foot off a table (ouch)), and did a lot of frame assembly! In fact, used 203 T-nuts and 128 screws! Mostly just a lot of tedious work, but hey, the main frame’s done!

6/27/2026

Oh that’s yesterday! Anyways, first part of the day was just me at the doctor’s office, so couldn’t get much done, but I did set an x slider block to print, and it came out pretty well! Also, all three extruders got assembled! And the starts of the tool base! Nothing else much though, unfortunately!

Well, that’s it for now, not writing today’s (6/28/2026) since that’s still happening right now, see ya after corexy assembly! (hopefully???)