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 smooth bar clamps, then slide them through the bearing assemblies on the Y axis and the rear smooth bar clamps. You may need to move the Smooth bar clamps in order to get the rods though. The smooth bars should sit nicely in both the front and back smooth bar clamps. Go back to the frame adjustment information and follow the instructions there to tighten the smooth bar clamps into place. Threadlock is probably a good idea on the nuts holding the smooth bar clamps in place... once they are all adjusted.

Alignment of these bars is included with the Frame squaring and adjustment information here.

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