The materials have started arriving and my dining table is now a delightfully cramped little work station. The only delay right now seems to be that two of the packages are being shipped to my parents' house so it'll be a couple of days before I go and pick them up (maybe). The other delay is that the shipping estimate for the ABS filament order I placed is as the end of the month which means that I get to order another spool! There goes another $30-$40 bucks but at least I'll have two colours to choose from.
So far, the frame design has come to a slight halt as I'm trying to figure out a design that will allow the print bed to be expanded to a larger size as needed but still fit inside the casing. This isn't really any kind of an issue except an aesthetic one and an extremely minor one at that. I guess I'm just nitpicking. Once I've finished the design for the frame and added it to the CAD file, I'll probably post a preliminary image before I really get down to it and finalize the design in about a week or so.
I'll be using smooth and threaded rods for the fram as many other models out there use except I'm considering using aluminum rails in the future to keep the weight down and to avoid extra clutter in the casing. Why am I so hung up on the casing and everything needing to fit? Because I have two very nosy little kitties. I'm not the only one out there with pets or kids so the need to keep everything neatly enclosed (for the most part)and keep moving parts out of reach is somewhere on the list of priorities for this project for me.
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