Drop in E3Dv6 mod for DaVinci 1.0 by jakwnd

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Drop in E3Dv6 mount for XYZ DaVinci 1.0.
Based off bdwalker1's design for a drop in mod to replace your Davinci printers stock extruder with a E3Dv6. I lowered the mount for the metal and removed 15mm from beneath the bracket. then added a 15mm spacer/backing above the bracket but under the holes for the PCB. I also cut out the back of the bottom to expose more of the heat sink. The bracket had to be adjusted because of a screw head holding the extruder in place. The fan shroud is identical, it could use a redesign though.
I use repetier and I had to set a 24mm z offset. I then aligned the bed from there manually.
Installing:
Main Assembly
Put the fan, fan shroud and main assembly together, careful to use short screws to leave room for the PCB on the inside. Screw in the PCB and filament sensor, Do not over tighten! Make sure the filament sensor is parallel to the heat sink and directly above it, you have some play on the PCB to get the alignment right.
Using the half bracket, secure the heatsink into the brackets. Only the heatsink, do not assemble the hot end and heat block to the heat sink yet.\
Hot End
Assemble the hot end into the heat block like explained here at E3D's site. Cut a piece of bowden tubing so that it comes about a cm above the top of the heat sink (you can screw the entire metal hot end together to do this, but do not apply the heatsink compound yet).
Note: The stock XYZ thermistor does not fit into E3D's heat block due to it being a glass bead. For this reason you should order the thermistor from E3D's site.
Putting it in the Printer.
Insert the assembly with just the heat block into the extruder carrier in the printer just like the stock one, make sure it clips down and make sure its straight. Next insert the bowden tubing UP THROUGH the heat sink, its hard to get it in there but once you do make sure it is still sticking out the bottom. Align the neck from the heat block so that the tubing goes into its pocket and start screwing it into the heat sink (You should have applied the compound now).
Looking in from the side you should start to see the bowden tubing coming up towards the gears. I had to push the tubing from the side to get it to go up against the gears. From there you should tighten everything and make sure it feeds correctly, looking in from the side you can see if the filament missed the tubing.