RepRap for Science—How to Use, Design, and Troubleshoot the Self-Replicating 3-D Printer - Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs - page 124

FIGURE 5.27 Assembled super-slim y -stage.
To get to this point should take you fit h even assuming you were taking your time and
stopping for food and restroom breaks. At this point, you can either push forward on the ex-
truder or go do something else while the epoxy dries (like sleep or if you are married, take
your spouse out to dinner—trust me on this. 3-D printing is addictive particularly when you
irst start and it is always a good idea to keep your spouse happy.).
After the epoxy has set, move the saddles so that they are relatively equally spaced one-
third of the length of the rod. Put the other two rods through the spacer. Loosen the nuts on
the corner pieces, so the parallel rods can be moved slightly. Then, push the cross-rods into
the holes on the saddles and tighten the nuts so that the whole assembly is relatively fixed to
the board. Finalize spacing of the saddles pushing the spacer from one side to the other. When
happy with their position, apply a small dab of epoxy to each saddle/parallel rod to affix the
saddle to the parallel rods. Let the epoxy set. Loosen the nuts, remove the cross-rod ends from
the saddles and apply epoxy to the ends of the cross-rods. Reinsert the cross-rods into the
saddles and rotate them and push them side to side to smear the epoxy. Tighten the nuts, so
the assembly is rigid and fixed. Again, you can skip ahead and come back to finish when it is
dry or take a short break.
Turn your atention to the heated build platform. Use silver epoxy to mount a thermistor to
the heating stage as shown in Figure 5.27 . Space the y -axis guide rods so that the saddles it