Carriage Measuring Tool

This is a customizable thing that can be used to measure the distance between the rods on an axis. I designed this as I needed a way to find out what the X-carriage dimensions of my no-name Chinese printer were. It's not particularly easy to measure with calipers, and you need it to be exact, so here is a thing that'll confirm the dimensions for you.

First take your digital calipers and measure the rod diameter. It'll probably be a metric rod of 8mm or 10mm diameter. Unless you know it's not metric, round the measured distance to the nearest whole number, so if you get 7.8 or 8.2 use 8.0.

Next measure the distance between the rods, on the inside from the top of one rod to the bottom of the other rod. This is the bit that may need a bit of trial and error, and a few reprints. At the bottom of this page is a table of the dimensions of various printers, so you may be able to avoid printing anything and just look there. If your printer isn't on the list, please add a comment and I'l