Voron Trident Formbot kit Build

 

The Voron Trident build took about 40 hours + 40 hours of tuning...I had Covid at the time so I would have been able to build it faster normally, but was able to concentrate on it almost 100%.

I printed the parts with a (untuned) Prusa MK3s and a MK3s Bear Clone.  The Bear clone was placed in the Voron Shipping Box with plastic in front and a space heater...worked very well.

Long parts were difficult (most had a failure or two) because the chamber temp was ~100F (because it was winter and 40F in garage.

The manual was minimalist and I don't think it would work as first printer. 

I had a lot of difficulty with the Z Stop (you have to assemble the z stop prox switch by hand, its a bit goofy.)  

I replaced the hammer head nuts for the left clear panel with t-nuts.  It seems like you have to remove this panel a lot.

Problems:

 There needs to be a wire run on the rear left AB drive frame part.

  If the z stop moves, it caused the head to press against the plate.  I will reprint with PC if it moves again, but it should be very tight.
    the second one is the reason for the ABS w/r XY joint parts.  The system seems like it is built to twist on too much pressure between the bed and the nozzle.
This is pretty awesome.  If your live adjust Z is too low you get a very ugly perimeter, and should stop the print.  Even extremely bad values are unlikely to seriously damage your build plate or nozzle.  In addition, it seems the extruder can still push filament out while live adjust Z is too low.

There is very little room for the camera.  I don't think anything but the pi-cam could fit, and wiring is very tough.