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Summary of Contents for SHAREBOT Kiwi-3D

  • Page 2 1 | Introduction...

  • Page 3: Parts List

    1 | Introduction Dear Sharebot operator, we are thrilled that you have chosen to side in the fore- front of this new industrial revolution. As with any new technology, the pioneers like yourself are the ones who’ll drive true innovations. Your new Sharebot 3D printer will make you free to create all the objects you can imagine.
  • Page 4 FOIL KEY: A – Main structure B – Bottom tray C – Z Plan D – Printing bed F - carriage X M – Left Abutment Y N – Left Abutment Y O – Hotend Plate P - Lead-carrier Y Z Q –...
  • Page 5 METHACRYLATE CARTER KEY: A – Frontal carter B – Head carter C – Right carter D – Left carter E- Rear carter F – Left deep end carter G – Right deep end carter P1 – Reel carrier P2 - Reel carrier P3 - Reel carrier P4 - Reel carrier...
  • Page 6 2 | Parts list 2 | Parts list Description                                      description                                  box a ...
  • Page 7 2 | Parts list 2 | Parts list description                                descrizione              c11  c16  8 nylon bearing carriers nylon bands 2,5x10 4 sticker pins 4 springs d10 2 o-ring...

  • Page 8: Assembling The Base

    Z axis, bearings and guides we recommend the use of vaseline oil or sewing machine oil. The ShareBot Kiwi-3D assembly Kit, is an advanced kit and requires good manual dexterity skills and ability to tin solder for a correct assembly.
  • Page 9 3 | Assembling the base The components you’ll need to assembly this first part are: Fig. 1 1. Bottom Tray; 2. Rubber pins (4); 3. Z axis engine with already linked axis; 4. Z supporting plank; 5. Stop lead tags (4); 6.
  • Page 10 3 | Assembling the base Fig. 4 Stick the 4 rubber pins to the base’s angles. Fig. 5 Turn back the printer base and position it as shown in the figure. In this kind of position you can locate the holes. Pictured are highlighted with coloured areas: purple for the target Z-guides, green for the Z axis engine, Orange for the control card, yellow for the fan.
  • Page 11 3 | Assembling the base Fig. 10 Get a 40mm fan, place the fan with its label facing downwards and the power cord to the edge of the circuit board, connect the power connector as shown in photo, on the specified plug in the wiring diagram (see annex chapter 3f), paying attention to polarity + red –...
  • Page 12 3b | Assembling the printing plate...
  • Page 13 3b | Assembling the printing plate Fig. 1 1. Z Foil 2. 2 Linear bearings D8 in a toolbox 3. 8 Screws M4x8 4. 4 Screws M3x25 4 5. 4 Springs D10 6. Foil printing bed 7. Safety adhesive 8. 2 Nylon spacers m3x10 9.
  • Page 14 3b | Assembling the printing plate Fig. 5 Tighten the end-stop to the two nylon spacers. Use two M3x6 screws orienting Avvita l’end-stop ai due distanziali in nylon. Utilizza due viti M3x6, aiming the final leg tab upwards. Fig. 6 Take the printing bed and stick on it the safety indication adhesive, keep the loop towards you and the two flaps upwards.
  • Page 15 3c | Assembling the carriage...
  • Page 16 3c | Assembling the carriage Fig. 1 To assemble the carriage, looks in the kit the components you see in the picture: 1. Right lateral blocker 2. Left lateral blocker 3. Stepper engine with a pulley 2. Axis X guides D8x244mm; 3.
  • Page 17 3c | Assembling the carriage Fig. 4 e 5 Put togheter the belt’s pulley introducing the teflon pipe and the pulley on the M3x25 screw. Fig. 6 Insert the pulley into the belt, then insert all in the lateral block while pointing the belt’s toothed part to the machine’s bottom (as you see in the photo).
  • Page 18 3c | Assembling the carriage Fig. 10 Now take the 4 bearings LM8UU and build on them a seiger ring for every bearing, remember to use the plicers. Insert the 4 bearing LM8UU with only one seiger on the two X plank (2 bearing for plank). The seigers must be aligned internally. Fig.
  • Page 19 3c | Assembling the carriage Fig. 16 Insert the right abutment on the X leads, boxing-in the thin sheet till the end of it. Take the stepper engine with integrated gear wheel, pointing the connector socket to the outward (right side) (photo), the belt must pass on the pulley then point it two screws M3x6 in the securing loop and in the engine’s holes.
  • Page 20 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder...
  • Page 21 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder Fig. 1 The components you’ll need for the assembling of this part are: 1. X Carriage 2. Extruder tag 3 3. Nylon bearing carrier 4. 4 screw M3x6 5. 2 spacers 5mm 6.
  • Page 22 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder Fig. 2 Take a bipolar cable, cut the tinplate tip and strip the opposite to the connectior far ends about 10mm. Fig. 3 Now take the thermitore of 100K and softly enlarge the two copper thread and braid them with the two already stripped cable poles.
  • Page 23 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder Fig. 8 Take the two 40mm fans, cut the white connctor to both and strip the filament about 10mm. Now take the two bipolar cables, cut the tin far end and strip them about 10mm.
  • Page 24 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder Fig. 13 Tighten the brass threaded connector to the teflon pipe. Fig. 14 Take the heated round, then take a piece of alluminium tape: it should be pasted to the heated round rolling it till the end. If there’s a surplus, cut this part with scis- sors.
  • Page 25 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder Fig. 20 Take the stepper engine and the brass gear wheel, assemble the wheel on the step- per engine spindle, tighten the pellet M3 paying attention to the fact that the pellet must touch the ribbed part of the engine spindle.
  • Page 26 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder Fig. 26 Get the other 40mm fan with the previously stretched cable and secure it to the car- riage frontal threaded holes with two screws M3x10. Fig. 27 Take the assembled stepper block, tighten it to the extruder with the threaded brass link to get the peek at parcel with pvc.
  • Page 27 3d | Assembling X Carriage and the extruder Fig. 33, 34 e 35 You can hook the X carriage with the extruder to the Y slide and link the belts as you see in the picture. You have to push before on the fore nylon supports then on the back ones.

  • Page 28: Assembling The Frame

    3e | Assembling the frame...
  • Page 29 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 1 The items you’ll need to this part are: 1. Pre-assembled tray 2. Pre-assembled Z-plate 3. Pre-assembled XY slide 4. 4. Leads Y D8 315mm 5. 2 Plank D6 6. Frame 7. LCD Screen 8.
  • Page 30 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 3 Get the leads blocking tags and assemble them in pair of two on the Z axis leads holes tightening them with two screws M3x6 as you did in Chapter 3a. Fig. 4 Take the two 6mm planks and the 5 pulleys. We start the posterior plank. Identify the opening holes, put in the plank up to half of its lenght passing only on the first yellow bearing, insert three pulleys following the picture on this manual.
  • Page 31 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 9 Get the LCD screen, the 4 nylon spacers M3x10 and 4 nuts M3: secure them on the 4 screen external holes in the side of the LCD (picture) using the 4 nuts M3. Fig.
  • Page 32 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 14 Take the pre-assembled frame and get it on the tray, passing with the frame’s bor- ders outside to the tray and boxing-in the Z leads into the upper lead-carriers. Fig. 15 Using 8 screws M3x6 fasten the frame to the tray. Fig.
  • Page 33 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 20, 21 e 22 It’s time to get the engine cables (four poles). Link one of those to the X engine (fig. 19) and one to the Z one (fig 21). Fig. 23 Cut and strip about 10mm of the three poles tinned ends (they will be used for the three final legs), insert a piece about 5mm lenght having a diameter of 3mm of the heat-shrink into every wire, then couple the cables braiding the stipped end of the same color (red/black/blue).
  • Page 34 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 26 Take the cable that go out from the right abutment, the final legs X and Y and the X engine. Cut in two part (every part should be 10cm) the spiral: a part must roll the X final leg and the other on the Y one.
  • Page 35 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 32 Use the remaining part of the cable duct to wrap up the Z final leg cable. Fig. 33 Get the led strips, white and red, polish the contact by removing the silicone protec- tion with scissors.
  • Page 36 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 38 e 39 Insert the socket cables into the hole located in the back part of the machine and block it with a black plastic nut. Fig. 40 Now get the red cable coming from the socket and insert in it a piece of heat-shrink and weld it on one of the two switcher’s valve (it’s the same which one).
  • Page 37 3e | Assembling the frame Fig. 44 Take 4 squanderer and attach them to the engine drivers (picture). In the card is already assembled an additional drive that you can use as a possible stockpile in case you’ll need it. ATTENTION: THE SQUANDERER MUST NOT TOUCH THE PINS.
  • Page 38 3f | Wiring the card...
  • Page 39 3f | Wiring the card Your Sharebot Kiwi-3D is assembled and you’ve only to do the wiring. You only need a screwdriver. Fig. 1 In this passage we are goint to wire the card as shown in the general scheme.
  • Page 40 3f | Wiring the card Fig. 6 e 7 We must order the wirings in way that they’ll dont obstacle the card’s fan. Pro- ceed fastening the machine deep end’s wirings (X stepper sheath, Z final leg and Z stepper), leading them beside the ventilation fan pointing the display: the wiring’s surplus could be wrapped up with bands and positioned between the machine deel end and the display.
  • Page 41 3g | Circulation...
  • Page 42 Fig. 2 On the screen you can read “Sharebot Kiwi-3D”: you must read a A schermo appare la scritta “ShareBot Kiwi 3D”: you should also read a tempera- ture detected by the thermistor that is reasonably comparable to environment one.
  • Page 43 Now you can try to launch from the menu “Prepare” the option to change the wire: you’ll see the printer running the axes home while starting to heat itself. When temperature will be the one that you selected the printer will also unload the wire: the extruder’s engine will turn clockwise for several seconds followed by “a beep”...
  • Page 44 3h | Body and finishing touch Fig. 1 To complete this last part you’ll need: - Assembled and tested printer - Plastic machine carter in assembly kit - Plastic reel-carrier in assembly kit - M10 Screw with two nuts M10 - 8 Mx10 - 36 M3x6 - 4 Washers...
  • Page 45 3h | Body and finishing touch Fig. 6,7 e 8 Get the coverings of the electronics, insert them one at a time starting from laying the coverings to the bottom, making the cable pass in the dedicated looms (see the picture).
  • Page 46 Now launch a g-code file to calibrate the printing plate. You can download it from www.sharebot.it/download. Test the high of the Z plate working on the 4 screws. You can regulate the high between the nozzle and the printing bed by working on the milled screw M4.