Artillery X1 Gantry Brace using a wall!

Last crawled date: 5 years, 3 months ago

So I really liked the look of the tall free standing gantry, but that wobble was a bit much. I've done the traditional gantry braces that mount to the base of the printer and attach at the top, but wanted to try something new this time so I could keep that clean look. And here is the wacky result I came up with!
Parts:
1/4" Aluminum or steel rod. I just used some aluminum ones found at home depot.
4 M5x16 bolts
4 M5x12 bolts
4 M3x8 bolts
The small bolts are screwed into one of the small holes to retain the rods This was in case you need to move or work on the printer you can just release the screws and slide the rods out.
After I mocked up the wall mounts I thought I would try something other than drilling some holes in my wall if I could help it. I figured it wouldn't take much to stabilize the gantry so..... Using some of those commander sticky mounts that can be released easily later, I attached those to the wall mount side.
After getting it all mounted up it did indeed take all the "slop" out of the gantry and looks like these simple sticky mounts will be fine! Wooo! No holes! hah
Printing these:
The wall side, no problem. Print's fine with no supports. Bottom side down.
Machine side. Bottom side down. Supports enabled. The bottom bearing area, I won't lie, was a pain to remove the supports from. So be ready to bust out your exact-o knife and some band aids!
I've included the Fusion 360 files in case anyone wants to tweak them or maybe come up with a better way to print that bearing retainer side.