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Ducted fan for RepRapPro Huxley by Alzibiff
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Last crawled date: 4 years, 1 month ago
The original design for this comes from the RepRapPro github here: https://github.com/reprappro/Huxley/blob/master/Print-Huxley/Individual-STLs/optional-fan-mount-1off.stl
The idea is a big improvement, (in my view), on other designs I have used which attach fan(s) to the Z carriage as these tend to be too far away from from the part being printed.
There were a number of Huxley's fitted with ducted cooling fans at the recent TCT Personalize show in Birmingham UK on the RepRapPro stand so I printed one!
In the RRP design, the fan is held in place by pushing it over two lugs or prongs which stick out from the face of the fan mount. I understand that the reason for this is to reduce the amount of hardware to the minimum.
However, it might be down to my clumsiness but when fitting a fan to the RRP design, I ended up snapping one of the lugs. This led to my amended design which uses a pair of captive nuts and a couple of 16mm M3 screws.
The idea is a big improvement, (in my view), on other designs I have used which attach fan(s) to the Z carriage as these tend to be too far away from from the part being printed.
There were a number of Huxley's fitted with ducted cooling fans at the recent TCT Personalize show in Birmingham UK on the RepRapPro stand so I printed one!
In the RRP design, the fan is held in place by pushing it over two lugs or prongs which stick out from the face of the fan mount. I understand that the reason for this is to reduce the amount of hardware to the minimum.
However, it might be down to my clumsiness but when fitting a fan to the RRP design, I ended up snapping one of the lugs. This led to my amended design which uses a pair of captive nuts and a couple of 16mm M3 screws.