Upgrade for Hictop 3DP-11 ATL by Klotzmando

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This is a collection of some remixes ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1723700 and https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1746358) and reworks of my own things.
The 5015 fan mount was modified to be slightly thicker and larger around to accommodate captured nuts for all the screws, cuz I hate trying to hold them while I tighten the screws.
The Titan Carriage was modified to use a cable chain for wire management and the BLTouch for bed leveling.
I know that some others have incorporated either the SN04 inductive sensor or the BLTouch into similar designs, but first I have never had good luck with the SN04 and second, the other designs had features for adjusting the sensor which I thought was responsible for the difficulty I had with keeping the SN04 adjusted. My mount of the BLTouch is static and requires that you adjust the Z offset in EEPROM.
Finally, when I removed the SN04 cabling and added the BLTouch cabling I found that it was still a PITA, not as bad as having to unthread the wiring and rethread the new wiring but still a PITA.
I had recently watched a video where Nillabean talked about adding a cable chain to his Original Prusa i3 MK2 and he mentions this open cable design, https://www.tinkercad.com/things/8r558hYwxKj, it is so simple to use. You layout your cable, assemble your chain, connect your chain to the circuit board box and then lay the wiring in the chain and finally insert the locks. DONE! So I had to modify:
the Circuit board box
The X-Carriage
The Titan mount
to fit the new links.
UPDATE Nov 24, 2017:
I had a filament jam on the E3Dv6, due to an overlong retraction, and had to remove and re-add the Titan several times. Any of you who may have built this Titan mount probably have some unkind words for me due to the PITA that was forced based on the original design. I sure did.
There are several problems with the original design:
You have to mount the carriage onto the bearings before you could mount the Titan and E3D.
The location and orientation of the Cable Chain mount caused it to interfere with the routing of cables and access the screws for mounting the Titan and stepper motor.
The Cable Chain still used a fixed plate and grove for cable management.
The BLTouch mount interfered, much like the Cable Chain interfered with access to screws for mounting the Titan.
So I returned to the drawing board to address all of this.