Vibration Pads and machine base support  

Vibration Pads and machine base support

Hello,

I've had the mini for about 10 days now.  I've printed several things and probably have over 100 hours on it, even one 30 hour print.  I have gone through and found a few assembly issues and got it running fairly well.  Still have one lingering question over the base pads and concerns with the control box sitting directly on the surface.  So my question/issue is first I think my support pads were damaged during shipping, especially the one that is mounted on the control board box.  I think that it was packaged incorrectly and after a while became permanently crushed.    The pad on the back of the frame are also a bit crushed and don't do a great job supporting the unit.  The screws on the bottom have scrapped my hardwood cabinet top where it is sitting.  This has developed into a few questions

• Are the support pad suffecient?  If their  is enough memory in the foam that it wouldn't pop back out, are we going to have issue with these degrading long term.
• How does the z-axis support affect the overall stability of the machine? If my pad is crushed, and the z-axis is sitting on the control box screws what other issues can this cause
• How does this affect the deflection in the z in regards to the xy plane?  The outrigger moves, and for what I use the printer for I can handle a little movement.  When they designed the machine they the knew there would be movement.  Will any of these things cause it move more than they allowed for.  I would be interested to hear from others if they have had any issues with this relationship.
• Are the vent holes on the bottom of the control box actually needed?
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