Slack in the Y-Axle

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Pixopax
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Slack in the Y-Axle

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I just put my belts on my shiny new liteplacer and moved the gantry a few times, just to see that the pullies on the Y-Axle (The long steel tube) were not running round. It made much noise to be fair, and wobbled.
I disassembled it and found that the Pullies had 8.00 mm inside diameter, the tube has 7.80 mm outer dia. :o

As the Pullies are fastened with two screws, this results in an offcenter-pully.
I took a piece of aluminium foil, which happens to be 0.05 mm thick, two times around the tube, and voila, we have 8.00 mm.
As the bearings also expect 8.00 mm I did the aluminium sheet go through the bearings too.
It is a bit tricky to shove the parts onto the aluminium, but with a bit patience it goes.

Since the bearings did also not sit exact into the steel plate, I fastened them with a drop of superglue.

Result: Round as a ball, no wobbling, no noise :-)

In the picture you can see the shiny aluminium (and the crappy looking superglue :oops: )
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