CR-10 Solid Mounts by TampaPrinter

Last crawled date: 3 years, 4 months ago

I wanted to do away with the springs because I have a BLTouch on my CR-10V2 and frankly don't see the point of messing with springs anymore. I went looking and found the mounts by Bmonnin but I also have a Whambam magnetic system installed (love it) which means the bed bolts have a nut under the bed to lock them in place. So, I took bmonnin's strain relief into Fusion 360 and modified it, purchased stainless (for less heat transfer than aluminum) solid spacers from McMaster. One of the spacers press fits into the new strain relief...and voila, you are solid mounted. I've been printing like this for 3 months...no issues.
A link to the spacers:
https://www.mcmaster.com/92871A361/
Update 10/16/20
While going through my Linear rail/lightweight sled projects I decided that weight matters on the Y axis. Ringing and all of that. One thing I decided I could save weight on was my solid mounts. I switched from Stainless to PTFE, which also required a different strain relief to accomodate the PTFE spacers. The PTFE spacers have a bit of give to them...not much but they aren't as rock solid as the stainless when you tighten up...which gives the added benefit of being able to affect your leveling a bit. Stainless spacers and strain relief weigh 87 grams, PTFE weighs 54grams and the PTFE cost $36 vs the stainless at $12. Your choice...both are here.
Link to PTFE spacers:
https://www.mcmaster.com/95136A410/