• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    Also: my life improved immensely when I decided to spend 12 quid to buy this:

    I literally sploosh every time I use it. Doesn’t matter what the wire, length, thickness, or girth. They crimp all the same

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      3 days ago

      The wall behind me. Chin up, no drooling.

      Good crimpers and strippers are worth their weight in what you paid for them in pennies.

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        3 days ago

        I’m impressed mostly by the size of that peg board. They’re surprisingly expensive…!

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            $23 for a 1.2m by 2.4 m wooden pegboard sounds like a dream. Here, you’re looking easily at £100…

            Very impressed by your 3d mounts though, I’m still in the process of setting up my Voron. I’m finally down to the electrics, and am getting some weird shorting behaviour with my z-endstop, but slowly and steadily debugging it

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              Loved my Voron v0.2 build, so much fun and got lucky without many problems. The display kept screwing it up, so disconnected it and it’s been happy since. Which Voron? At that price for pegboard, printing some multi board might be cheaper! I considered doing that since I have a big boy printer, too, but decided to stick with the pegboard.

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                23 hours ago

                Yeah I’m on a 0.2, I thought it would be easy… and here I am months later! As for pegboard, I did a bit of a shop and there are some that make it to that size and thickness at a similar price, but to collect them would be a two hour drive into a whole other city

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                  19 hours ago

                  Are there “sheets” of anything you can get cheap? Or from sonsignment? You could make a jig and drill a bunch of holes to make one?

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                    8 hours ago

                    I could buy some ply or mdf and have a go myself, but precision drilling would be difficult

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      4 days ago

      What is this?

      I know what crimping is, and I know how to terminate an Ethernet cable, but I don’t know why you’d want to crimp 4 things at once and don’t know what those socket things you’re crimping on are?

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        Ferrules - great for terminal blocks, wagos etc. It’s just for crimping one - the stripped wire goes into the plastic end, and the metal sheathing is crimped down onto the exposed wire.