{"id":518,"date":"2022-07-29T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bechele.de\/?page_id=518"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:36:28","slug":"diagonal-rods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/?page_id=518","title":{"rendered":"Diagonal Rods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">he Diagonal rods are the weak point of the printer kit. All six rods had a different length. I noticed this first after I mounted the delta triangle to the delta towers and the triangle was far from being parallel to the printing bed. From other users I read that this is a common issue. And I just can confirm that. I had differences of up to 2.5 mm in the lenght of the diagonal rods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I tried to adjust the length of the rods, first I broke one. Though they look like as if they are made of steel, they are not, so I ripped one off. From the weight it feels like steel because the ball joins are made of steel and heavy. Therefore you see one of my rods is thicker &#8211; means I used an old umbrella stick tube to join the ball joints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took quite a bit of time to improve the diagonal rods:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I cut them off and glued them all again together to 198 mm using a short piece of tube with a inner diameter of 6mm. I glued them all at the same time to keep the lenghth identical. When two of them have the same length, the others can be adapted, by putting a 6 mm shaft to all of the joint eyes at the same time with the rods of the same lenghth at the outer sides.<\/li><li>Some of the ball joints were going hard some others wobbled awfully. So I made the wobbling ones going harder by pressing them together using two modified old piston pins of the correct diameter using a bench vise.\u00a0 The hard going ones I moved over a longer period using a drilling machine. Finally I goth them working smooth and precisely, but I have to admit, it would have been better to buy something more accurate.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/134-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\" width=\"462\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/134-1.jpg 285w, https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/134-1-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he Diagonal rods are the weak point of the printer kit. All six rods had a different length. I noticed this first after I mounted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":496,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions\/520"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}