OpenBuild's Mini V-Rail 2020/2040 Extrusion Mount Plate by firepong

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Was wanting to maintain the length of my Openbuild's Mini V-Rail and could not find any other plates/parts that would be simple enough to use without modification. So What did I do? Decided to fab my own part in Solidworks and came up with this design.
The plate's (All 3 of them) are 10mm thick, with 3mm cut out for the screw's to sit in such that it does not affect the Extrusion's, which leaves 7mm's.
For Hardware, I would suggest a 10mm M5 Screw which will work perfectly for the Mini-V Plate as well as being used with the T-Nuts as well to secure the Extrusion to the plates.
At 60% infill and 5 outer layers, the parts are super solid, even in PLA. Don't think I would be able to break them unless I literally took a pair of pliers and a vise and just snapped the top part of the print off for the Mini_V_Extrusion_Mount_Side and Mini_V_Extrusion_Mount_Side_Chamfer designs, which I wouldn't do.
Anyways, all 3 of these parts work great on the OpenBuild's Mini-V Plate and will mount either a 2020 V-Rail or a 2040 V-Rail Extrusion. Maybe even a 2060 if you used the flat plate and mount to the center Rail, but that might be pushing it.
For the mounting holes, they are made to be used with 5mm screws (Doesn't matter if they are cap or hex head), but the low profile screw's from OpenBuild sit practically flush with about 1mm of spare room on all the holes.
If interest is found in these plates, I would possibly be willing to make more of them to facilitate all sizes of the OpenBuild Extrusion's so that other people can use more than just a 2020 or 2040 extrusion's
Just print them as they are downloaded. YMMV on supports as to how good your printer does rounded holes. If it doesn't like doing a smaller hole sitting on top of a bigger hole, then possibly enable supports for that 1 little section of the print. It's only a 9mm hole with 3mm of heaight before the 5mm hole takes over.
These design's are not to be sold by unauthorized individual's or used in an industrial setting unless Person/Company has contacted me and we can work out a proposition.