This post is about adding a Pinda probe to the 3D printer. In order to do that I needed to make a probe mount first. I thought about designing a mount in Sketchup and printing it. But that meant I had to learn how to use Sketchup and I would have to print the design too. While I do have a pretty good book on Sketchup, the problem of printing the mount with the printer as it currently works, ruled out that idea. So I looked to see if I could fashion a mount out of stuff I had on hand.
I found a thin stainless steel metal piece. I believe it was a cover for some computer component, I’ve forgotten exactly what. Here it is after cutting it, bending it in places, and drilling a few holes.
Next I put the Pinda probe in the mount.
Here I have the Pinda probe mounted on the printer.
One thing I had to do in order to configure the probe settings, was to measure the offset from the printhead to the probe. It was -25mm on the X axis and -5.5mm on the Y axis. I will plug these numbers into the Configuration.h file for my Marlin code. There are a number of other settings I have to change, but for now I will end this post and report on those changes later in another post.