Assembling the Inmoov - Getting Started

I now have enough parts printed and my printer is cranking out new parts so that i thought I would start putting it together. I went to the website instructions and step 1 was right away a problem. Under neck and jay, I was told to: "Glue or screw “MainGear” to “NeckHinge” but I could not find any neckhinge anywhere in the STL files. What?? It turns out that it is the old instructions to the old files. I am not encouraged by this. This is a daunting project and already I have a doubt and uncertain about what I am supposed to do. That is why I am back here working on this blog!

This is wrong!

On the forum I found these instructions:

I don't know yet what this means. I'll try and figure it out.

So. first I will print the neckplate.

More Plate Problems

Following my first disaster of ripping a hole in the plate blanket in order to get my ear off, I put a new one on and had the same problem again. Fortunately my glass cover arrived so I had something else to try. While having that disassembled and cleaning it I discovered that I had the heat plate upside down and that might be why I encountered new sticking problems right off with a brand new blanket.

The Glass Plate

I received my new glass plate. I ordered a thicker one hoping I would be less likely to break it. Unfortunately I discovered that the adjustment screws would not let me back screw them down tight enough to get clearance for my new plate. My solution was to cut the springs down by about 1/4". After that my plastic was coming off the plate at the first layer. So I tried the glue stick and water, thinly spread around. It worked wonderfully! Unlike the glue stick on the blanket - that made a horrible, eventually burned mess. The next wonderful discovery was that with the new glass plate, once my print was finished, I simply had to wait until it cooled and you could hear it pop off. For the next print, I just take some tissue and dampen it, and swirl the leftover glue around. I love my glass!!!