Maybe we can figure out a compatible pin and print our own connector housing
Alternatively if desperate one could always cut the cable in half to splice from the center.
This is the direction I’d look at. One caveat to keep in mind: The tolerances of these 3D printers are probably not tight enough to print the housing in one go. What would work, I’m guessing, is to also print jigs for final operations. Take, say, pin locations. A rough connector body can have rough pin holes drilled or reamed to final size with a jig. It will definitely take a bit of trial and error to find something that works.
Well, i finally decided that its time to assemble the enclosure.
I was kind of banking on there being a bottom to the thing… it overhangs my table…
I am now hesitating to assemble it, because if I need to make something, I am not sure how i would attach it… i am thinking i can probably utilize the slots in the extrusion to add something there as a bottom.
Going without the bottom isn’t really great because dust and stuff will spew out
Unless I am missing something anyhow…
Sure, set it on a sheet of plywood, and possibly attach the plywood to the bottom.
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By how much?
If only you had a 3d printer that you could use to print a bracket…
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the print bed is not long enough 
I was wondering if the slots will line up on the bottom edge in the same fashion that the sides go on and about what size something would need to be
i can get something made up easy enough
i guess ill just have to assmeble it and figure it out
i was hoping someone would exclaim about why i cant put a bottom panel in the slots like it would interfere with a mount or something, but i guess ill just do it
Perhaps you need to upgrade your SM, to make it infinitely long 
Disregard, i now see why it would require some cutouts in a sheet on the bottom to fit the snapmaker’s feet, but also believe that the overhang is a little short of the edges of the table due to it being inside a bit
I have the enclosure for my SM2.0 A250.
The enclosure is quite expensive, but I do like it.
The led strips and the doors with sensors are both nice features.
One question:
Are the orange doors sufficient for shielding the laser ?
Or do I still need to wear the protective glasses ?
SM does not include any certification with the enclosure, and panels that cover 100% of the power are more expensive than the whole enclosure. The panels may be enough, but there is no proof of that.
If you care about your eyes use the enclosure, and also wear the glasses.
You know… Every time I see an article about that I see people fawning over something already done as if it was new. I still have my first 3D printer… A MakerBot Thing-O-Matic with the conveyor…
They should provide some protection but the question is how much.
On any enclosure the panels won’t be as effective as the correct certified laser safety goggles. It should only be considered as secondary protection and as @buzzplop says you should always wear goggles. As far as glasses go the green ones that were shipping with the SM have been called into question. Interestingly they are now shipping proper amber safety glasses.
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They are using different glasses now?
I havent used my laser yet. I checked and have the green glasses. starting to build my enclosure now and may or may not change to laser head soon.
Honestly, i was surprised it included safety glasses in the box at all.
Seems like something people should be buying on their own to me, recommending a minimal specification or greater would be a reasonable thing for them to have done imo. i guess being based in china it doesnt matter much, not like people are gona be able to go after them for safety issues outside of the product getting pulled from the market.
I would really love to compile a list of changes to the hardware that were done as well as a list of what aspects of the product seem to have had manufacturing issues or bad information or whatever.
In on email at the moment, but check my post history, I’ve made a thread specifically with what was in my box for precisely this reason.
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The most recent version of the starting guide (on the downloads website) has introduced the new goggles in pictures. There is also a paragraph on their safety characteristics which was not there before.
Here you go (Quick Start Guide V 1.3.0):
I wonder if actually anyone has already received those new glasses instead of the green ones or if they are first using up their stock of older parts (same applies to platform and other stuff they might have updated without information).
Maybe we should use @ITmaze 's thread to keep track of those changes but that would require especially new users to dig into those details which might be a little bit confusing at the beginning… 
Oh wow! Another example of them listening what the community says. I wish they’d be more open about this… It would be great to once in a while get a feedback from them: Hello community, we have heard you and work on an improved version, which means we work on X, Y and Z (like e.g. we plan to replace the plastic nuts in the linear modules by brass nuts or something like this). Correct me if I miss something, but I yet have more or les only seen indirect messages like enigmatic one-liners in Trello-Roadmap for “improved linear modules” or “improved printing head” - can mean anything… I can only guess that they are a bit afraid of admitting they did not things perfect from start on, which in my opinion is OK for a product of such complexity…
Quite, things are changing, but not announcing the changes feels disingenuous. There must be a reason to change the glasses, and if that reason is safety then existing customers should also get the new glasses.
As for improvements to the linear modules there have already been source code updates to indicate some of the changes ‘gen 2.5’ might have
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thats why they are being quiet about it.
they know they have to make things better than they are but dont want to lose their asses.
i also believe that alot of the little fixes they have done thus far need additional thought and they are just inching forward a bit. Once they decide they have the solution to a problem they will sell it to you, it won’t be until the warranty is up I am relatively sure about that. hehe.
Just aks Google: