Anet A8 Aluminum Brace to eliminate Z wobble

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Anet A8 Aluminum Brace to eliminate Z wobble

The ANET A8 is a great machine for the money, but suffers from wobble on the X-axis with quick back and forth movements. It gets worse and worse the taller your prints are due to the lack of rigidity in both the design and the acrylic material used.

This brace removes ALL of that wobble. There is zero movement, even when pressing hard on the top of the gantry.

After adding this, one side effect I encountered was getting frequent corruption of the LCD screen. The prints were not affected, but it drove me nuts seeing the corruption on the screen. I eventually narrowed it down to EMI from the X and Y steppers, and resolved it by adding snap-on ferrites to the X motor cable, the Y motor cable, and the ribbon for the LCD. I got them here: http://amzn.to/2krlHv4

Date: 02/01/17

Owner: Rich

Size: 16 items

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I used 6061-T6 @ .063 thick. You don't need a full 36x36, but I wanted extra and used this: http://amzn.to/2ksBn0L Date: 01/28/17 Views: 6125	Created a thick paper template first (based on measurements I took from my assembled machine), then traced onto the aluminum Date: 01/28/17 Views: 5168	template traced onto the aluminum Date: 01/28/17 Views: 4328
Used my bandsaw to cut the shape out, but a scrollsaw or handheld jigsaw would get it done Date: 01/28/17 Views: 4938	aluminum cut-out. edges were cleaned up with a 1" belt sander Date: 01/28/17 Views: 4690	center-punched each hole, then drilled them out with a step-bit Date: 01/28/17 Views: 4880
for the LCD, I taped up the area not to cut and to protect the surface, and used a handheld jigsaw Date: 01/28/17 Views: 5291	cleaned up the edges with a file Date: 01/28/17 Views: 4529	all finished, peeling off the protective plastic sheet Date: 01/28/17 Views: 4140

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