Huxley Cooling Fan Mount Bracket
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Published on March 24, 2012
Derived from
eMaker Huxley Part Cooling Fan Mount
by richgain
Description
This is an addition to richgain's simple but effective Fan Mount. It allows you to use a second fan on the x-motor side.
I found having only a fan blowing from one side of the bed not enough certain prints and wanted a second on blowing from the opposite direction. By attaching the fan to the x-motor it moves with the z-axis and will always point towards the newest layer.
The design was made in Tinkercad and is available at tinkercad.com/things/1dSwoYOgJ0h
I found having only a fan blowing from one side of the bed not enough certain prints and wanted a second on blowing from the opposite direction. By attaching the fan to the x-motor it moves with the z-axis and will always point towards the newest layer.
The design was made in Tinkercad and is available at tinkercad.com/things/1dSwoYOgJ0h
Instructions
print this bracket
print richgain's fan mount (Thing 15899)
unscrew the top and bottom 16mm M3 screw holding the x-motor
attach the bracket using two 25mm M3 screws
attach a 40x40mm fan to the fan mount using M3 nuts and screws, use some washers if the fan blades touch the mount
attach the fan mount to the bracket using a M3 screw and nut
wire the fan
Note: This was made for a RepRapPro Huxley, I don't know if eMaker's Huxley uses the same x-motor mount.
Some more details on this fan mount and on how to connect the fans is available in my blog post at splitbrain.org/blog/2012-03/24-reprap_huxley_cooling_fans
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Alzibiff
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March 28, 2012
said:
I made one! However ... I had to do a lot of 'fettling' in order to get the screws to line up with the motor - I had to elongate each of the two holes before I could get the screws into their holes. I also found that 25mm M3 screws were too short - I needed 30mm. It works though - I have printed a couple of things which failed in the past because of heat build up. :)
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Huxley Cooling Fan Mount Bracket by splitbrain is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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Thanks so much for this great part! You have helped me improve the print quality I can achieve with my machine :) You rock man!
I saw that your print of the bracket warped. Might I suggest that you try printing that bracket with a "Brim"
I made a post about brim printing on the RepRap blog here:http://forums.reprap.org/read....
Excellent idea. I'll try that.