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Digmo

Could anyone with a successfully assembled aNet A8-M provide me with directions ?

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Hi ! Forgive the bad english if there's any below.

I recently received an aNet a8M (the dual nozzle one) in kit parts and believe to have been following the proper building procedure up until the present point.

Since I wish to be really careful with that part, I figured I'd ask advice from the Internet instead of trying a wrongfully assembled printer and set my apartment on fire.

Now, there's also a likely possibility that I might have missed something in the procedure or video, so I made an imgur album to clarify the situation here. The building / mounting video provided for reference by the builder can also be found here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnmb7lionpU&t=8m59s

(can provide additional pictures if requested.)

So the problem is this : I'm currently trying to assemble the extruder head + nozzle part onto the axis platform, and the extruder heads seem different than the ones in the documentation I have been provided - there are no holes to make a screw inside the spring, and no way to properly fixate the nozzle into the assembled head. Am I stupid and haven't seen something in the doc that made me do this wrong or have I been supplied the wrong documentation or the wrong parts ?

I'd be very grateful for any insight on this.

Posted May 17, 2019, 11:12 PM UTC

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LooxoorOriginal Prusa i3 MK3s•

Take some pictures of what you have at the moment, both extruder assembly and x-axis so we can try to figure it out.

A picture says a thousand words etc. :)

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DigmoOP•

Sure ! I'll post some additions to the imgur album later today.

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LooxoorOriginal Prusa i3 MK3s•

The missing screw through the spring is only there to keep the spring in place, it seems as though they've found a different way to solve that problem so I wouldn't worry about that.

As for the the nozzle, if there isn't a threaded hole underneath the extruder in the same location as in the lever above then it appears to be impossible to solve with the parts provided.

A few photos from that perspective with the nozzle aligned with the filament path would be helpful.

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