Segmenter - faulty design? Resolution?
Hi,
I'm stuck at assembling the segmenter with the plates, apparently a pain point of many users.
There are probably two problems:
- the square nuts, without any warning, should not be pushed all the way in this time (as others already noted; though I read their comments after I did that). I was kind of able to mitigate it by using a small allen key, pushing the nut(s) little bit back. But I think at least one nut seems to be off the position in the X direction, if Y is the screw axis and Z goes up.
- for whatever reason, misalignment being just a factor, the screws simply don't want to go inside. And when they do, they seem to be stripped off their thread for no reason. I think it's simply how difficult is to screw the screws in, that the thread is stripped one revolution by one.
I removed the segmenter from the plates, thinking it would be easy to adjust everything and screw the screws in for a test first, but it doesn't get any easier. The screws either don't go into the nuts at all, or they turn in the nuts and the threads appear to be stripped half the way of the thread profile and I assume the the nut has the same.
The question is what now. I think I will simply put a tape over the heads of nuts to keep them in for the moment, they shouldn't be axially loaded and it should be fine as a temporary measure. After clarifying here, I think the best way would be just to use a glue as a permanent fix. I don't think, considering the design of this part, that printing a new part and repeating the procedure would necessarily help with this issue.
I appreciate comments and suggestions for resolution.
Regards,
Libor