HuxleyYAxis

Image of a Huxley X Axis, assembled from a TechZoneCommunications Huxley Kit

General

This page and its peers should guide you through assembling a RepRap Huxley from the TechZone kit, or from parts you have printed which are the same as the TechZone parts. It is a work in progress, and needs some help, feel free to edit this document to add comments of you your own, or contact us [here] and send us messages asking us for better clarification or details.

I am starting by posting the pictures I have, and over the next few days, I will fill in the instructions and detials (24 Dec 2010)

Thanks,
Lambert (TechZone R&D/Support/Documenter)

You can access this page and it's peers (for the other parts of the Huxley assembly from the Main Huxley page or from the TechZone Huxley Page

Whene assembling the Y Axis, it is OK to actually tighten the bolts/nuts since it is all aligned by the frog plate and later installation into the frame.

Y 180

On the left is a picture of the parts used to make the Y Axis 180 side. See the image below on assembling the Y Axis to view the assembled Y 180 parts.

Put the bearing(s) between two of the Y180 printed parts

Y 360

Install a bearing on the angled portion of each Y360 printed part

Install bearings between the Y360 printed parts

Connecting to Frog Plate

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Install the Axis

Instalation of the build platform itself will come later... after the motors, belts and endstops.

You are now ready to install the Axis, you'll want to insert the 2 smooth rods you'll use into the front holders (using terms from the frame assembly page), then slide them into the bearings on the Y axis. You may need to move the holders in order to get the rods though, as you will need to push them both through at the same time. Once pushed all the way through those, they should sit just short of reaching the back rod holders. Once everything is in place, tighten it down and make any alignment adjustments you need to.

If the smooth rods start to spread out or point together as you slide on the Y axis, the clamps are not properly spaced. If the far ends spread out as the Y axis moves towards the holders, they need to be spread out, and if they point in as the Y axis moves in, they need moved closer together.

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