X Carve V Wheel Cover by Droneme

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This covers the V wheels, stepper motor pulley and idler wheels. It is designed to be used on machines that have NEMA 17 stepper motors as it mounts to the NEMA 23 mounting holes on the Y gantry's. I printed it with no supports needed. This is part 1 of 2 parts. I saw an advertisement for V wheel rail brushes to keep debris away from the V wheels but they wanted 30 US dollars a pair and I thought that was an absurd price for some plastic with some fiber as a brush. Hopefully I will have the brush part finished in a couple of days and I will post it as a separate posting here.
Added wiper holders that you can put the wiper material of choice into. I have tried cotton balls, felt, old terry cloth wash rag and all seem to work fine. Cotton ball worked the best but was a mess getting into the holder and keep it in. (it wanted to fall apart to much). The holder just clips onto the cover or can be glued in place.