I feel ya. Assembly is a pain, especially for anyone with more advanced skills. The only reason I want to do my own assemblies is because I can easily clean and grease all of my bearings with a known product I will always have access to in the future.
I wouldn’t use power tools with this kind of assembly. Maybe a high end electric screwdriver that will not apply a final torque, even then, raising the temperature of fasteners from friction makes bad days with printed parts. Spinning a fastener, like a pocketed nut, is an easy mistake to make and it really sucks to deal with it after it happens.
The one tip I try to tell everyone I can is to get a set of hex drivers like the cheap Bondhaus drivers set you’ll find in the USA for ~$25. Using L keys for assembling a printer is nonsense. Just using a simple screwdriver handle makes an enormous difference. It takes away the tediousness.
I feel ya. Assembly is a pain, especially for anyone with more advanced skills. The only reason I want to do my own assemblies is because I can easily clean and grease all of my bearings with a known product I will always have access to in the future.
I wouldn’t use power tools with this kind of assembly. Maybe a high end electric screwdriver that will not apply a final torque, even then, raising the temperature of fasteners from friction makes bad days with printed parts. Spinning a fastener, like a pocketed nut, is an easy mistake to make and it really sucks to deal with it after it happens.
The one tip I try to tell everyone I can is to get a set of hex drivers like the cheap Bondhaus drivers set you’ll find in the USA for ~$25. Using L keys for assembling a printer is nonsense. Just using a simple screwdriver handle makes an enormous difference. It takes away the tediousness.
I have a drill with adjustable torque slider on it that I’ve been using for my own 3D Printed stuff. But something with a handle would’ve be nice.