Precision Piezo Orion mount for air cooled Chimera/Chimera+ by ukflyer

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This is designed to allow the Precision Piezo Orion to be utilised with the air cooled Chimera/Chimera+ and the Cyclops/Cyclops+.
The only difference between the two STL's is the spacing of the bowden tube entry. The Chimera has an 18mm centre and the Chimera+ has a 20mm centre.
In order to utilise the Orion it has to mounted with a 45degree turn. This allows the bowden tube to pass through the unused piezo mounts in the Orion.
The Chimera is attached to the mount using the E3D supplied M3 bolts, the heads of which are countersunk below the level of the top surface. The whole assembly then mounts onto your X carriage using 4 M3 bolts (as pictured).
I have pictured an example mount that I am developing for my CR-10S.
There may be some changes to the design as I am currently testing it. Any suggestions for improvements drop me a message.
Thanks to the guys at Precision Piezo (https://www.precisionpiezo.co.uk) for this fantastic product and their advice.
Updated 21/07/18 - I have been having issues with the Orion not always getting triggered which I can only put down to the preload ring in the centre not being complete.
Therefore I decided to split the block into two halves. The bottom half is bolted to the heatsink (I used button head socket cap bolts, same as those supplied by E3D). The top half then sits on top and the whole block is mounted as before. The heatsink bolt that sits below the preload ring is now covered and the preload ring is now complete.
I also added inserts for M3 nuts so that I am not relying on the threads cut by the bolts.
I have uploaded the Chimera+/Cyclops+ mount, I will upload the standard Chimera/Cyclops mount later once I have printed and tested it.
I printed this on my S4 with a glass bed and so I oriented the parts so that the mating faces were on the bed surface