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Update readme yenda/vsw_more_robust_belt_paths/ (#869)
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This has come from the #helping team on Discord, particularly Hymness1
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jtrmal authored Dec 23, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -7,12 +7,21 @@ with the horizontal plane, which lead to yawning of the belt and increased wear
and tear of the belt. Additionaly, the cages parts a and b had the tendency
to open up in the bottom, especially when the tensioning screw is one or two mm too long.


The modded version has a through-screw in the bottom and additional screw slot
on the top to attach it to the vertical extrusion, to help with proper leveling
of the stepper axle. You'd probably be able to address these issues without
if you were careful and knew about them. Using this design is just much faster.
![Stepper cages](images/motor_cage.png)

It has been noticed by people helping within Voron community with Switchwire
builds on regular basis, that the uppermost screw supposed to fix the stepper
mounts to the vertical extrusions might actually cause issues if the frame
is not perfectly square. Please make sure your printer has its frame fully
square and proceed at your discretion -- use of the uppermost screw is solely optional in any case.
(Credits for this observation go to Hymness1 on Voron Discord).


## Additional mods ##

The **xz blocks** have a slot for M5 button head screw that can be used to fix
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