So I’ve been trying to build the arms, and putting the top and bottom togther , the 12mm m3’s appear to be too short to keep these together. I find no 16mm screws in the kit for the 6 holes x 4 arms = 24 16mm screws needed. The 12mm for these arms looks too short. The nut is pushed in as far as it can go in the hole. I also think that the 3rd hole for the belt guard has a similar problem. The 12mm doesn’t grip enough of the nut, so it feels loose, and if you tighten it down, the belt guard bends to the left much closer to the bottom piece, and clamps down on the belt, and I’m pretty certain that there should be no friction on the belt.
So I’ve been trying to build the arms, and putting the top and bottom togther
, the 12mm m3’s appear to be too short to keep these together. I find no 16mm
screws in the kit for the 6 holes x 4 arms = 24 16mm screws needed. The 12mm
for these arms looks too short. The nut is pushed in as far as it can go in
the hole.
you also need to push the bolt in, it’s a press fit against the plastic on both
sides.
take one of the non-locking nuts and tighten it down on the bolt on just half of
the arm and see how far it goes in. you have to push much harder than you would
think.
David Lang
I also had a horrendous time with this, I first used the screwdriver and pushed the bolt in as far as it would go, then I found a big allen key that was the same size as the nut and used that to push the nut in, sometimes i had to use the allen key and hammer and hammer the nut in, then I used the allen key on one side pushing on the nut and the screwdriver pushing really hard on the screw while twisting to get them to go. I also found that once i had tried a screw and if it took the first thread and then slipped, then that screw and nut were no good anymore and i had to grab new ones. It was a nightmare filled with much swearing but did get there in the end
I’m having the same problem. I’ve pushed very hard and I’ve screwed the other side in so tight the nuts went into the hole and created bulges. These bulges, in turn have make it so the spool can’t turn and I still can’t connect the sides
dixnballz69 wrote:
I’m having the same problem. I’ve pushed very hard and I’ve screwed the other
side in so tight the nuts went into the hole and created bulges. These
bulges, in turn have make it so the spool can’t turn and I still can’t connect
the sides
picture please.
it sounds as if you managed to press the nuts in not aligned with the hex hole.
David Lang
I was actually able to get this one to close but like I said, the spool wasn’t able to turn before I attached it so I probably wanna disassemble and fix if this isn’t hose from the bulge?
that looks like you pulled the nuts all the way through the plastic, what is
keeping the arms from closing together all the way?
it can be tricky to get all the bearings and shafts lined up, but once you do
that, the two arm halves should go together cleanly without a lot of force.
David Lang
it also doesn’t look like the flats on the nuts match what I expect the holes to be. can you get a picture looking down one of the holes?
FWIW, I posted my own (quite successful, IMNSHO) approach here.
Did you keep the nut in-between the two arm halves? In the video bar used the nut to fully pull up the screw into the hole then removed the nut. There isn’t supposed to be a bit between the halves.
The screws will be a little under flush with the top of the nut when tight.
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There we go, that’s definitely what the problem is, thanks!
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FWIW since removing those screws everything fits together pretty easily (in case someone did the same dumb thing I did)
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dixnballz69 wrote:
FWIW since removing those screws everything fits together pretty easily (in case someone did the same dumb thing I did)
we all do dumb things sometimes, in this case it means that the person writing
the directions assumed that it was obvious to remove the nuts, not as obvious as
they thought.
I’m glad that the final fix was so simple (even if it took a while to get to it)
David Lang
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Nice teamwork!
It’s exciting seeing all the new kits being built.
Dano
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I picked up m3 x 16mm screws, and they solved my problem. I used 9 of them in each arm.
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