Sapphire Plus Backplate by Soliptic

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Have you ever found yourself idly looking at AliExpress or Banggood when suddenly you see a machine that seems to be pretty solid for an insane price and you think to yourself "Well, it can be a project machine..."? Who am I kidding, this is Thingiverse and so of course you have done that.
If, like me, that random buy turned out to be a Sapphire Plus by Two Trees then have I got a file for you!. Here is a backplate for mounting the mainboard so it isn't inconveniently inaccessible when something goes wrong. Because this is 3D Printing and something will assuredly go hilariously wrong. IN fact, have you checked that 2 day print you have running in the other room? You'd better, it might be spaghetti! Mmmm.. pasta.
Anyway if you're still reading this then here is an overview of what this actually is.
It's a mounting system that fits in between the back extrusions of the Sapphire Plus frame, to which you can mount basically anything you want. Although I used it to remount the mainboard, and then the follow-up replacement SKR 1.4 when the Robin Nano 1.2 decided it just couldn't anymore. Convenient that they have the exact same mounting hole layouts? Yes! Was I glad this wasn't underneath the case in that hotbox Two Trees calls a bottom when that happened? Also yes.
The mounting holes are in press-fit hexagons with standoffs, so you can position the board anywhere you want relative to cable length, aesthetics, and if your favorite celestial body is doing something you well and truly care about.
Some Other Notes:
This is gigantic, and you will need a 400mm width bed to even attempt to create this behemoth. You could probably break it up into pieces for smaller printers, and I've included the STEP file in case that fancy strikes you.
I have been using this for months without issue, and the mainboard is mounted and hasn't moved one bit.
I wound up not needing the feet, but they're included anyway. In marketing parlance that is called a "bonus". Marketing is often silly, however then again so it this and it works great so maybe I do want a Snickers after all.
Hexagons are the bestagons.