This question was posted a long time ago and Im sure youve got your answer, but if not (Ive seen hundreds of unanswered questions on forums) those look to be the springs that fit inside the plastic blocks that rise and fall on the threaded rods and elevate/lower the horizontal X-Axis double rods with the Extruder mounted on them. You fit the threaded rods by screwing a nut onto each one then popby twopusses - Printing
Hi Alex I was thinking of that after a neighbour suddenly brought me - a pair of boots. LOL! Id been thinking - I wonder if I had a dual boot setup can I run Win7 off one and Win XP for what seems to be tech outdated (already) software linked to my Melzi-Ardentissimo board "3DP02", aka Reprap Mendel i2 aka ya *!?>#! lol! Ive built my machine and under various random installations of softwareby twopusses - 3D Design tools
Also from Glasgow.... see,... you are not alone. So, have you been printing successfully or like me pulling out all your hair trying to get things that arent what you paid for, to work? I bought what was supposed to be a Reprap Mendel Prusa 3DP02 (aka whatever anybody else fancied calling it apparently) and helpfully the Wiki pages for this machine are "under construction", however the projectby twopusses - United Kingdom RepRap User Group