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Error in frame x-axis installation?

Posted by Nyarlathotep 
Error in frame x-axis installation?
April 18, 2010 02:36AM
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'Installation of X-Axis'

This step calls for M4x12 bolt, qty 6. However there's no M4x12 bolt called out in the master BoM on the Mendel Assembly Data Sheet

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so there is an error somewhere - either in the BoM or on the assembly instructions. Can anyone confirm the correct screws to use on this step?

Thanks !


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Re: Error in frame x-axis installation?
April 21, 2010 03:09PM
crud, I have no idea. I bought what was listed in the BoM and managed to assemble my Mendel without trouble so I'd say go by the BoM. Still can someone with a Mendel on hand verify if that is supposed to be an M4x40 and update the wiki?
Re: Error in frame x-axis installation?
April 21, 2010 11:12PM
Looking through it, I think you can use M4-16 Cap instead. If you take all the M4-12 Cap screws and M4-16 Cap screws and add them up it's suspiciously around the right number of M4-16's in the spreadsheet.

Note: I noticed the extruder mentions a single M4-16 Cap screw and in the spreadsheet it mentions it's M4-20 Cap screw.

Guess: To reduce the different types of part (and therefore reduce the cost), someone has changed pieces. This change may not necessarily have made it into the wiki build instructions.
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