I'm No Hero - Hot End Fan Shroud

Last crawled date: 4 years, 3 months ago

I installed parts from the Hero Me collection on my printer, but i did not like the way it attached to the carriage. I found a different Hot End fan that attached much better but the fan duct did not fit the stock fan. So I mashed them together. I used the fan mount and duct from the Hero Me and married them to the back mount plate for the carriage using Tinker CAD. The mount plate ring didn't allow mounting the BL Touch as it would hit the part cooling duct. I created an offset BL Touch mount. I also remixed a bowden tube brace to work a bit better. it should work for stock hot end but I have switched to Microswiss. The nice thing about the mount plate is that the hot end can be secured to the carriage before mounting. It also uses 2 of the stock screws from the original fan shroud and 1 additional screw with a nut on the back side of the carriage plate. It is VERY solid with those 3 screws. I also put together a fan adapter so that I can eventually swap the stock part cooling fan to a 40x40x10 silent fan. You can use the stock part fan or add the adapter and add a 40x40x10 fan. I may build an offset mount for the stock ABL when I have time.