Building the Frame

To construct the frame i started with:

• 5m of M6 theaded steel rod
• x6 Silver steel M6 rod (comes in lengths of 335mm)
• M6/M3 washers and nuts (i bought 250 of each - overkill maybe but i may well make a couple more Huxleys!)
• Threadlocker

I used the following table from the Huxley Reprap.org page to know what lengths of M6 threaded rod to cut.

Dimension			Huxley SS All-Thread	Qty Needed	Comment
J1			314mm	6	Frame sides, the two equilateral triangles.
J2a			245mm	4	Frame bottom cross bars
J2b			335mm	2	Frame top cross bars
*			292mm	2	Z Axis Lead Screws
*			320mm	1	Z Axis Base Plate Rod A
*			295mm	1	Z Axis Base Plate Rod B

With the threaded rod cut i started to assemble the frame:

The silver steel rod is the perfect length in this case. Both the y-axis and x-axis was did not need changing. The z-axis bars were too long, but only by 50mm or so. I decided to keep them at that length as they act as legs when working on the underside of the printer.

The actual assembly of the frame is fairly simple as RepRap.org documents how to build Mendel, which has a very similar frame to Huxley. Once i was happy with the frame i threadlocked each nut.