Geeetech i3 X axis modification by valand70

Last crawled date: 3 years, 2 months ago

I just received a Geeetech i3 printer and as I am going to make some modifications, I will put here what I come up with. First modification is to change the carriage X axis from vertical to horizontal (something like Anet A6). For this, I redesign the Z axis plates and the X carriage. The interaxis of the bearing will be 60mm as the actual structure limits that.
The hot end will be an E3D V6 and there will be a direct drive extruder.
The belt tensioner pulley and U plate are the Geeetech ones, just the screw has to be cut a little bit shorter, just to fit the nut.
The extruder lever's spring is just the same used for the bed levelling.
The bearing for the extruder lever is 5x5x16mm. (I am probably going to modify this to use the original toothed pulley and bearing from original Geeetech extruder the next time I will take it apart so I can take measures).
The linear bearings for the X carriage are the ones from the original extruder X carriage.
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