Dual E3D V6 mount for Prusa i3 by karlzhao314

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

First ever Thingiverse design! It's a dual E3D V6 mount for a Bowden Prusa i3. It fits the standard X carriage with 30mm mounting holes (not the Rework carriage with 24mm holes).
I had been looking for a decent dual E3D mount for my P3Steel build, but after several days of searching I couldn't find one that suited my needs. All of them had their own specific issue: some were too big, some were too complex, some weren't adjustable for height, and some (surprisingly) had completely wrong mount dimensions and so couldn't clamp onto an E3D at all. So I finally decided to stop being lazy and designed my own.
This one I tried to keep as simple as I could while still maintaining easy height adjustment. Basically, I simply have 16mm holes to align the hotends and a hole+nut trap for a set screw to secure each of the hotends.
I also made a fan shroud (just to cool the heatsinks, no layer fan D:) that fits around both heatsinks when they're mounted.
It's the perfect solution for me. I won't claim that it's the perfect solution for anyone else, but if you are in a similar situation to what I was in it might be worth taking a look at.
I've also included the Inventor files so that if anyone wants to modify the files and happens to use Inventor, they can do so. 2016 and beyond only, but they're available for free for non-commercial uses through Autodesk educational community.