RepRapPro Huxley heatbed assembly

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Introduction | Frame assembly | Y axis assembly | X axis assembly | Z axis assembly | Heated bed assembly | Extruder drive assembly | Hot end assembly | Wiring | Commissioning | Printing | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | Improvements

A notice about these instructions!

These instructions are open to editing by everyone and anyone.
For the official, and most up to date, instructions, see the RepRapPro wiki here


Goal

By the end of this stage, your machine will look like this:

Reprappro-huxley-heatbed-finished.jpg

See also this wiki page.

Tools

  • Wire cutters
  • Soldering iron
  • Allen key

Heated bed assembly

Hardware Quantity Reprappro-huxley-heatbed-components.jpg
There should be 6 more washers in this picture
[The white splodges are heatsink grease (see below);

we took an assembled bed apart for the picture.]

Heated bed PCB 1
Aluminium plate 1
MDF insulator 1
Bed springs 3
3-way screw connector 1
4-way pin header 1
Short wire (e.g. clipped resistor lead) 20mm
M3x35mm screw 3
M3x8mm screw 4
M3 nylock nut 3
M3 nut 6
M3 washer 10

Now may be a good time to consider applying Kapton tape to the surface of the printer bed.

Put washers under the heads of the four short M3 screws and screw them through the stack to hold it together. Don't do the screws up so tight that they project through the aluminium plate. The ends of the screws need to be just below the plane of the top of the plate. If they project, put extra washers under their heads.

Put the long screws through the holes in the PCB, put on washers, drop the springs onto them, put on three more washers (one per screw), and put the M3 nuts on by about 10mm to hold the springs.

Use the screws to attach the heated bed to the machine. Screw the screws into the nylock nuts until the bed is secure and roughly level. Then loosely run the nuts down the screws (relaxing the springs) until they meet the printed parts of the Y sled. Tighten them gently against the sled.

Reprappro-huxley-heatbed-attached.jpg

(To level the bed accurately later, you will slacken those nuts, adjust the screws in the nylocks, then tighten the nuts again.)

If you find that the springs are a bit weak (and so do not hold the PCB firmly up against the heads of the screws), simply add three extra nuts under the washers on the ends of the springs. Use the top nuts to set the spring compression, and the bottom ones independently to secure the bed.

You should be able to push the bed down easily with a finger, and it should spring smartly back up again to rest under the screw heads.


Carefully run the Y-axis back and forth by turning the toothed pulley on the Y motor by hand. Make sure that nothing hits anything.

Next step

Extruder drive assembly