Tronxy X5SA Extruder and Filament Stop Mounting Plate by Toto-42

Last crawled date: 2 years, 11 months ago

The original design of a Tronxy X5SA printer has the extruder and the filament stop detector mounted on two separate plates at the outer rear right vertical 2040 profile..
Unfortunately this results in maximum required length of the PTFE bowden tube.
Obviously not the best design.
The bowden tube can be shortened about 20% if the extruder is mounter in the middle of an upper horizontal frame part.
The rear seems usually to be the best place for this.
To overcome this, some re-work on the original mounting plates is required.
Here is the result...
It works for various extruders based on Nema 17 stepper motors,
but it is especially designed for the non-Titan original stock extruder (i.e. non-Pro X5SA) and the BMG extruder (and its clones). This is because of the position of the filament run out sensor.
Is was a design goal to position both devices in a straight vertical line regarding filament run. Therefore there are two sets of M3 mounting holes for this sensor.
At the time of designing this thing I still use(d) the stock sensor but have already ordered am BMG extruder clone. Each extruder has a different path for the filament, so the position of the sensor has to be be adapted correspondingly.
WARNING: the current 1st version has an issue interfering with the long diagonal brace! The upper mounting hole of the sensor is blocked by the brace. I will provide an updated version soon. If you don't use such a brace, then the issue doesn't affect you. Anyway, you can mount the sensor even with just one screw - it then self-aligns with the filament.
I have also designed a corresponding Tronxy X5SA Spool Holder in the Rear 2040-Profile Vertical Plane.