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Upgrading the Ender3 (not much of a choice)

8/25/2018

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The Ender3 has been a big pain to get functional, but I am going to get it working one way or another.  I have thrown a lot of time at it already so now I have to throw some money at it as well.  Cheap never seems to be inexpensive in my experience, but I don't ever learn.  Anyway, I am upgrading the Ender with a Titan clone and a Titan Aero.  I found that not all Titan clones are made equally and the one I bought is just slightly different than the original.  On it's own the Titan clone works, but when I bought a Titan Aero heatsink which was built to the original spec, nothing fit (well almost nothing).  I found that the base of the clone Titan had things shifted so when joined with the Aero the holes did not align.  I found however that I could print a new base for the Titan which was to spec and that solved my problems with the cheap clones (I used the base from here). 

Once that was sorted out, I needed a base for mounting everything.  There are tons of great mounts to choose from, and I modded one that worked well.  But decided that I wanted something more compact so I would not lose as much of the build volume.  I also wanted to be able to add a larger stepper or a heatsink on the stepper.  I rotated the Titan Aero clone 180 degrees from most mounts and raised it up a bit to allow the thumbwheel to be used.  There are only 2 parts to this mount and hopefully it can be printed without internal supports.  This is the result and it is printing now, I will upload it to thingiverse once I get it all tested.
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