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Heavy Stainless steel bed on an acrylic frame

Posted by Diemex 
Heavy Stainless steel bed on an acrylic frame
January 08, 2020 06:11PM
Hello there,

I have a Tronxy P802M, which has an acrylic frame. I have made it stiffer by screwing it to a sheet of wood and adding some braces so the X axis doesn't make the frame wobble the higher the printer goes in Z.
Currently the aluminium (i think) printsurface is mounted on an acrylic sheet with the regular springs + screws.

I still have a stainless steel plate, that I made a few years ago for a different printer. I would just have to add some new holes to mount the bearing blocks. The holes in the corners are tapped. So I could replace the springs + screws with hex standoffs.
The only thing I am worried about is that the weight of the plate. It weighs 1kg. I wonder if that is too much and instead of improving the stability I will decrease it because of too much mass moving on the acrylic frame...

Cheers,
Hope someone can give some estimate if this is a terrible/okay/worth a try idea.
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