After posting my review on my Wedgies, this is a follow up to both explain my affiliation with “lucky Chinese” and the use of the item... I bought the wedges the same day before I even considered looking at the 3D printer.
On my way home from Total Tools where I made my wedgie purchase I was driving past Jaycar (a tech and electronics store) I thought about my dodgy 2 of 3D printers
that I was having issues with and both have been sent to Coventry.
Did a u’ey and went into the shop to look at their range of 3D printers. With my printers being over 12 years old, I was gobsmacked by the advancement in technology and shiny new things, and got fixated on a particular model.
The cost was nowhere as intimidating as the near 50kg weight of the package. The guys were happy to help load it into my car after smilingly depriving me of my shekels, however, I thought about the destination unloading as I have trouble getting SWMBO to help me take my vino cask purchases into the house and wasn’t overly confident of assistance for the 50kg package.
I lined up a friend and the team of a burly bloke and a lame duck, managed to park the bundle in the kitchen…
The buddy left and I was faced with the unboxing. The first thing that came out of the wrapper was the manual(sssss). Then it hit me… and I reached for the vino… I was hesitant in reading troubleshooting instructions to fix up my other dodgy 2 printers and now I’m faced with all the RTFMsssss for a new machine… what an oxymoron… though the ox applies.
I will not elucidate on the struggles to lift the printer to the chair (next to the box in picture above) to perform the unboxing surgery… most of which was removing heavy duty, bolted down “shipping assistants” which would have been difficult on my knees at ground level… then there was a comedy of errors to get it to its final resting place in the 3D printer/laser room.
The RTFM revealed that access may be periodically required to get to the back of the printer and this is where this actual project is born… yay!
The printer came with rubber feet that would have been hard to rotate, so I prepared a 500mm x 600mm x19mm ply to rest the printer on. I waxed and polished one side of the board,
to make rotation easier…
Damn, I stockpile lazy susans,
why not use one you idiot?... but how the hell do I get it under that 50kg… ok less than 50kg with the packaging removed, but still hernia weight… and lifting up 30mm from a 740mm height is just a tad more cumbersome than lifting up from the floor using a generous lip on the roof of the printer,
Now this is where you hear that du-du-du-du chorus… I just bought the wedgies and to boot I was tossing up between the single and the triple… lucky I listened to the voices… “get the triple”.
I used two of the wedgies to lift the printer above that board so I could slip another board between it and the printer. I then had that over hang to jack the inserted board with the printer resting on it and after sufficient clearance I put a couple of chocks under the newly inserted board,
which now permitted the withdrawal of that original base.
Off to the workshop to mount a lazy susan on it.
The printer had a footprint of approx. 500mm x 500mm, requiring a 100mm clearance from the back, so that board was actually 500mm x 600mm, give or take a few 0.01mm.
Centered the 400mm lasy zusan around the form 500mm x 500mm of the board, drew the circles and drilled a 5mm hole
for use with my circle cutter to allow for the corner rotations. Opted for my Fe$tool jigsaw jig rather than the bandsaw jig solely for finish purposes as the setup was much the same for both. Measured the arc for the corners and set the pin,
Confirmed the measurements for fit,
and cut. The cut was smooth as with just a tad tear out,
(tearout, down side)... that was fixed with a 240G sand over the edge but the cut was not touched. Susan was then nailed (sounds better than screwed) to the board,
and the result was cordially introduced to the new printer/environment,
Damn, leaving those pencil marks are gonna plague me for eternity.
Slipped the newly Susan adorned base under the printer, aligned it and jacked up the printer so I could remove that introduced board holding up the printer,
Dropped lowered the printer with a couple of button presses on the wedgies for a gruntled result,
Spun it around… oops, tried to spun it around… soly hhit, all my calculations and slide rule manipulations didn’t account for that non-bloody-flush power cord,
which protruded over the corner circumference and hit the back wall. I could move the platform with the printer on it forward by 10mm or move the whole cabinet with all on top. I must have had a mental as I did the latter and the revolution eventuated,
No idea why it explicitly needs to be oriented like this as I haven’t RTFM’d to that point, but I do see some orifices on the back
that may need future attention.
That lazy Susan is constrained by another wedgie,
While a lazy susan is nothing novel, the hero of this exercise was the Wolf set… or should that be a den of wolves?
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
