Makerfarm 12-Inch Pegasus

The purpose of this page is to provide a highly detailed review and construction guide of the [Makerfarm 12-inch Pegasus kit].

Contents

The Makerfarm 12-inch Pegasus 3D printer kit was received on Thursday, the 20th of October, 2016. It was shipped in a 22-inch by 14.25-inch by 7-inch box weighing 26 pounds. Inside were 3 cardboard boxes, 1 styrofoam box, one paper package, the aluminum extrusions, a packing slip, a makerfarm sticker, and a gambody.com promotion code. There were also some packing peanuts and sheets of thin packing foam. The boxes were not labeled, and there wasn't anything saying what should have been in each box.

The Large Box: Print Bed

The largest box contained the aluminum print bed and the heated print surface.

The First Small Box: Electronics

One of the smaller boxes contained more of the packing foam and 2 antistatic bags of preassembled electronics. One bag had a connector with 2 cables running deeper into the bag. The other contained a preassembled RAMPS board, complete with (Pololu?) stepper drivers and an OSOYOO MEGA arduino clone.

The Second Small Box: Extruder Parts

The other smaller box contained

• a tube of ball bearings wrapped in packing foam
• 2 lasercut wooden sheets (which may have originally been 1 sheet, broken in two during shipping)
• a bag of 3D printed parts
• a white plastic bag with
  • 2 pulleys
  • 9 set screws
  • a hex key
• a clear plastic bag with
  • a 5.25-inch long PTFE tube
  • a clear plastic bag with
    • a heater cartridge
    • a thermocouple with a modular connector
    • a pair of 2-wire cables with a modular connector on one end and two 0.1-inch pin sockets on the other
    • a 30mm computer fan
    • a 4-inch zip tie
    • a rubber (silicone?) hot end nozzle insulator
    • a clear-red indecton-molded plastic piece
  • a clear plastic bag with hotend hardware. Inside was another bag labeled "V6 UNIVERSAL FIXING KIT".

The Styrofoam Box: Stepper Motors

The styrofoam box contained 5 NEMA 17 bipolar stepper motors. The axles are 0.85 inches long and they all have flats ground out of them.

The Paper Package: Small Hardware

The paper (tyvek?) package contained

• 3 individually bubble-wrapped stepper motor mounts made of welded, black-painted steel
• a clear plastic bag with
  • 7 corner inserts
  • 35 corner brackets with nubs
  • a clear plastic bag with 4 corner brackets that had no nubs
• a clear plastic box with a label:

50-M3 Nut, 40-M3 Nylock Nut, 25-M3x10mm Bolt, 65-M3x16mm Bolt, 15-M3x25mm Bolt, 18-M5x30mm Bolt, 35-M5x12mm Bolt, M3,M5 screw Wrench, 04-M5 Nut, 17-M5 Nylock Nut, 25-M5 Washer, 25-Zip Ties, 04-Spring, 04-Binder Clips, 03-Endstop Switches, 05-MR125ZZ Bearings, M3,M5 Nut Wrench

The box seemed to contain all of these. It also clearly contained even more hardware, such as:

• • 3 different cut black steel sheets
  • a 6-mm wide toothed belt
  • 2 more springs of a different type than the 4
  • a brass filament drive pulley
  • a full-size skate bearing

The Loose, Large Hardware

The aluminum extrusions:

• 4 20mm x 20mm x 19.75-inch 8020-style
• 14 20mm x 40mm x 19.75-inch 8020-style

Last, there are 2 16.5-inch long 3/32-inch diameter threaded rods.

Assembly

A link on the [product page] leads to the [build guide].