Anet A2 diagonal supports by olev

Last crawled date: 4 years, 7 months ago

Simple diagonal supports I designed to stiffen up the frame of Anet A2, but I expect them to work just as well on Tevo Tarantula or any other similar printer that uses 2020 and 2040 profiles. These are designed to use 12mm aluminium tube, freely available from hardware/building supplies stores at least around here. In my setup the tubes are 375mm length (325mm visible length +25mm into both mounts), the whole setup is then 350 mm high and 250mm forward from the frame, you can play with tube length to achieve different dimensions. I used M5x10mm bolts and M5 T-nuts to fix it to the frame (4 sets), 5x20 wood screws (4 pcs) to fix it to base and M3x3mm set screws (8 pcs total, 2 per mount) to fix the tube into the mounts.
Those things really stiffen the upper end of the frame up, no need for fancy lower and upper brackets weighing half a kilo and taking days to print.