Manual instruction for drive gear position confusing or out of order

[blumberg]

I just build the G2E whilst watching videos and following the manual. I think the manual has an error.

Page 36 on the manual, marked as Very Important, has the following information:

However, this can only be done once the Motor is installed (if I'm correct, and also follows the YouTube videos, including with Steve). As you will push the gear IN against the motor, but if the motor is not there, there is nothing to push against.

I believe that a change to make the gears easy to be installed was introduced during the development time, but the way to install the drive gear ended up been overlooked.

I'd suggest to install the step motor first, slide 37, and then install the drive gear.

Also, page 37 has an image with the drive gear (on the left) and other without (on the right), would be nice to have consistency here as well.

[grimlokason]

Hello, i think it's ok the way it's shown in the documentation.

You just need to push the 3 planetary gear from one side and be sure it's fully seated inside the printed part ( you can use a table for example ).
if you do it the way it was done in steve's video, you are not sure that the shaft is really seated , and risk to have some room in the shaft that'll lead to a drive gear not aligned to filament path.