E3D V6 and V6 LITE adapter for Printrbot Simple 1405 by mrAkuaku

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is an adapter for the E3D V6 and V6LITE for the Printrbot Simple 1405 Makers kit. It was modified from and requires a few more parts than this http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:559657, but you don't have to glue anything to you hotend, allowing for easier PTFE adjustments.
Additional required parts for mod
Printrbot simple
E3D V6 or V6LITE
top piece and hardware of Printrbot Alu Extruder (If you don't have the top piece of the exturder, a STL for one can be downloaded here: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/printrbot-alu-extruder#information).
Instructions:
Print out all pieces with your current hotend (or have them printed for you). *Fan needed to be rotated on its Y axis by 245 degrees.
Cut away walls that are 0.4mm thick that were included as support material.
Use some needle nose pliers, angle cutters and/or forceps in difficult to reach areas.
Swap old cooling fan out for new one
Place 3 3M nuts in exturder along bottom of it
Use 3M bolt to secure front left and back piece of extruder to E stepper motor.
Pop in assembled E3D hotend (the overhang of the back piece of the extruder should help hold it in place for now.
Slide in front right piece of extruder to front left piece, then secure to E stepper motor.
Adjust Auto-level probe (http://printrbot.com/project/simple-metal/)
Flash Your Printrbot with Marlin firmware with a version that uses the type of thermistor E3D uses.
If your frame starts driving itself into the print bed (the frame hit one of the M3 screws on the last probing point), adjust your printer max X position, or probing points.
Wiring notes:
I still wanted to be able to swap my current hotend, but I didn't have the required connectors to do so. So what I did was use male (or female where needed) 22awg (maybe that's a bit thin for the hotend) "premium breadboard connectors" and cut them close to the connector, then soldered them to the hotend wires. These could then be fitted to the molex connectors (some needed one corner to be cut in order to fit.. I did this with a utility knife).