Morgan 2

Most of my Morgans time since receiving PLA filament has been spent printing Morgan parts.  And calibration parts....

The first printer was assembled in a week flat.  The platform is of chipboard, and a few parts broke during assembly (documented earlier). 

I have now embarked on the second Morgan build,with the intention of building one "the right way", having learnt a few lessons along the way.  This one will have a platform of 12mm plywood, I intend for it to have an LCD display (from the parts bin) and possibly an SD card reader if I can source one.

Building the frame, the problem areas were the captive nuts in the pipe end caps coming loose, and me forgetting the wire through the ported caps.  This will be fixed by glueing the nuts in place this time (and remembering the wire...).

Unfortunately, the top and bottom smooth rod brackets still need to be printed, so final assembly cannot yet take place, and I also still need the drive wheels (so I cannot complete the drive shaft).  As soon as the new J-head is here, though.

I started cutting the PVC pipe, but a cutting error (skew, not measurement error) left me with no option but to shorten the entire printer height by 18mm.  The parts to be shortened will be the PVC pipes, smooth rods, copper pipes and lead screw.  There is enough height on the design that I will not be compromising build height.

I will post photos of the (bright yellow) Morgan build as I go along.