Easy Universal Z-Braces for CR-10 / S / S4 / S5 by jonathanlundstrom

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

For the longest time I've been looking for z-braces for the CR-10 with parts that are easy to print and require minimal material. I also wanted them to be easy to assemble and mount with parts that can be found in every hardware store. Just the other day I had yet to find any until William Weston showed me some that he had put together. Inspired by his design I set out to create my own. I then printed them, cut some rods to length and installed them. So far it seems to work really well.
These should also work perfectly fine on different sized CR-10 and I plan on installing them on my S5 soon as well. If you decide to try it on another size, please let us know what rod length you used.
Important: If you're like me and use a capacitive probe for bed leveling the maximum build height will be reduced to 380mm. I haven't tested this with a BLTouch but it should not impact the build height, just as if you're using manual leveling.
What you'll need to buy
2x 60cm M10 threaded rods
4x M4x10 screws
2x M4x15 screws
2x M5x12 screws
4x M4 T-slot nuts
8x M10 nuts
2x M4 nuts
Optional things
Cable sleeving
Shrink tubing
Tools required
You'll need a tap with M4/M5 pieces to tap holes in the printed parts. The same M5 piece will also be used to tap the holes in the aluminum extrusions on the bottom of the frame.
Enjoy, and please use the make functionality to upload an image if you decide to use this mod on your printer. I hope you'll like this as much as I do.