MadModder

I have joined 2 bits of 2020 extrusion for the X axis but I am not sure I am going to get away with it as there seems to be slight resistance when passing the join.
I may need to order a complete bit.

Been a few changes in the last 2 months, for a while my backyard looked like a war zone - complete with craters. Eventually the craters were filled with the foundations for the garage and the bulkhead stairs that I am adding into the basement. For the 18 years that I have lived here I have NEVER had easy access into the basement with bulky objects - before winter I will.

There was a major construction hiccup but that has been resolved. The major hiccup was that I had told the lumberyard that I wanted attic storage roof trusses - no king post. When the trusses arrived, they were king post trusses. That was their boo-boo not mine, but it was a 4-5 week delay. My new garage now mostly has walls and a roof, The wall framing is complete, sheeted, covered with Tyvek, has the windows are installed, and the siding is about half installed. The widow's walk that was demolished when the deck and porch were demolished, is temporarily back now. It WILL become a 2nd floor sunroom.

I lost my construction crew for the last week, it's county fair time and the crew boss' kids had entries in the fair. He also happens to be the construction company owner, so we took a week off. That's not really a bad thing since the temperatures and humidity were both high last week.

There's still a LOT of work to be done, we're going to strip the old stucco off the second floor of the house and re-side it to match the garages. We've also got to build the sunroom, cut the opening for the bulkhead stairs, and build those stairs. Then we need to build the landing and stairs from the kitchen into the garage. Part of that landing will be a drawbridge covering the bulkhead stairs into the basement. Did I mention that as we were doing the demolition it started to strip the brick veneer off of the west kitchen wall? We've still got to figure out how to deal with that, but I've got a clever plan M'Lord.

I would guess the v wheels will be fine . There's little to no forces moving them around and they work fine for most bed slingers.

I must get on with my dual hot end for the frog spawn , I put it away last year and have yet to start again

I was looking at making my home brew 3D printer better by adding linear rails to replace the bars which have served until now.
I was thinking a needed a cheap and cheerful one to print any parts I might need and noticed someone not too far away selling a couple of creality cr10's all in bits and pieces for a reasonable price.

That of course has changed the situation so now I am going to build a complete replacement machine while keeping mine current one intact to print any parts. So far I have managed to arrange the extrusions in such a way that I only need to cut a few bits.
I will need to make or purchase a few corner brackets to keep everything square and rigid but the plan is to keep the front top free of any beams.
I have ended up with an opening of 460mm square so I may increase the bed size at some point in the future from its current 300X300.

No, there is not.  All the original pulleys and shafts were missing when the previous owner bought it.  He had plans to do what I am attempting, but never got to it.

The problem: big hole in the side

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My solution: Weld in a close-fitting disc for said hole, using the lathe.  My setup as seen below.

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Unfortunately, the hole has some rough edges, so the disc doesn't quite fit as desired. I'll take a grinder to it tomorrow, and it will be just fine.  I need to add a slight chamfer all around for the weld anyway.  There are 6 smaller holes that I plan to plug the same way.