SmartrapCore 1.2x new slideX with back-sided fanduct by BrunoBellamy

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This version is osbsolete. You might be more interested in the new one : http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1190481
The original SmartrapCore 1.2x (I currently use V. 1.24) slideX part is very well designed and effective, but in the process of designing a project for a twin-headed version of it (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:995640) I got some ideas that seemed to be usefully adaptable to the single-headed regular parts, at least with one goal in mind : putting the printing zone cooling fan and fanduct on the rear of the head block. Hence this new design…
The main idea here is to remove the printing zone cooling system from the front, in order to have a wider and more comfortable view of the nozzle and the printing in progress, which I believe is quite essential.
Warning : as it means that the fanduct part takes some space behind the slideX, this might not work if you're using the regular slideZ support system, or at least you might need to give up two or three centimeters on the Y axis to avoid collisions with the upper slideZ support. If you adopted Andreas' Z system (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:896556) then this back fanduct won't be a problem.
Important : this is a research, a work in progress. I'm currently printing it in order to test it soon, but I can't tell so far if it works fine or not!