This will be the new (and huge) Update for the Blackbox.

Major Changes:

• Carbon supported X-Axis
• Extruder carriage (Draft)
• Custom Bondech Extruder (Draft)
• Motor Brackets
• Pulley Brackets
• Belt driven Z-Axis (Draft)
• Watercooled Toolchanger (Draft)
• New User Interface (7x15px LED Matrix) (Draft)

As you can see it´s quite a List, im currently focusing on the XY Axis. Motor Brackets, Pulley Brackets and the X-Axis are ready to test. As soon as im done with the Extruder Carriage and Custom Bondtech i will order them from Shapeways and test them. I want to be done with XY update by 11.03.18.

These are the new Linear Rails and bearings i got from Smalltec: MR-9 M for X and 2x MR-9 W

New X-Carriage with custom PCB adapter boards with Micromatch flatcable. The carriage consists of basically two printed parts. 

The small gaps you see are for Carbon strips which i want to glue on there in order to enhance strengh in Z-direction.

Carriage weights around 620g with everything but the Cablechain, printed Extruder Parts and Hotend/cooler. I think it will end up with around 700-750g in the end. In comparison, my current X-Axis with Openbeam (Alu t-slot) weights more than 1.5kg.

New and old carriage in comparison.

The new Pulley Bracket, two parts with cones to ensure that the outer ring of the bearings doesn´t touch the Bracketsurface. New Motor bracket in the Background.