- Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:58 am
#769
Ok, so I may have been a little bit silent lately, but I kind of stumbled into a design flaw that meant I had to do quite a lot of redesign which wasn't very motivating (and Diablo III was quite much fun too), however now I have signed up for Trondheim Maker faire end of next week, so I will try to solve this issue until then and post some awesome pictures.
The design flaw was that I added four rods to hold the axis going back to front and I placed one slider on each rod, which unfortunately made it completely stuck due to the tiniest rotation forces. So what I should have done was to ask if I could buy 2 or 4 more sliders, because they are not available in the web-store, however now I'm in kind of a time pressure, so I will try to move the sliders I have to the top rods and either
a) Use Open Rail to support the bottom part. It will probably be a bit more noisy due to the wheels, but I think it will slide pretty well.
b) Print sliders on my 3d-printer temporarily and order 2 or 4 more sliders from AJ, if possible...
AJ, is it possible to order sliders, and what is the suggested distance between these sliders for optimal sliding? I don't want to move them too close since I lose work-area for every inch I move them.