After assembling the main portion of the printer I noticed too much flex was present in the frame. I overestimated the required side of the frame to fit the heated bed comfortably. If I was going to keep the same size frame i would have needed to move up to 30mm extrusion or larger, as well as bulking up the design of the corner pieces. After researching online, as long as the bed was within the triangle, even if by only an inch, I wouldn’t lose precision.

With a base that large I would have needed ~26″ arms for the effector as well which can get costly. I cut the frame base pieces from 25″ to 15″, which still leaves room for the edges of the bed, but reduces the arm length to 18″ and raises the print height to around 12″. There was also significantly less flex when moving the frame:

A size comparison with the Rostock Max v2 bottom frame laid over. In the end each tower was moved away from the center of the bed about 2.5″. While this seems like a small amount, that’s the beauty of equilateral triangles, the area of the triangle was greatly increased to encompass the heated bed.

I noticed both the top of the old Rostock Max and the snow flake the bed used to be mounted to weren’t level anymore. It wobbled when sitting on the frame. I decided to use extrusion to attach the bed to the frame. I clipped the old tapered screws shorter and bent the nuts to slide them into the extrusion. Two washers were placed between the frame and the bed to make sure the bed would be level and to help keep heat from the bed being absorbed into the frame causing cold spots on the top side of the bed.

Hopefully using extrusion instead of melamine will keep the bed from warping while heating up. Moisture doesn’t affect the shape of the extrusion, it should stay level no matter the climate.

The printable area of the bed is within the triangle formed by the towers.

After the extrusion was attached to the heated bed and laid onto the frame I didn’t observe any wobbling.

I am reusing the stepper motor dampers from the Rostock to keep the noise to a minimum. I suspect without the wooden frame of the Rostock acting as a sounding board I should be able to get the printer even quieter.

I’ve ordered some carbon tubes and swivel arms for the cheapskates. I need to find out how I can attach the bed to the frame in the mean time. I will also need to isolate the bed wires from the frame to prevent short circuits.