Kossel Effector for E3D V6 hotend
I made this thing!
An effector plate for my kossel, the one supplied needed severe mods to take the E3D so i dowloaded Ponpont's excellent plate from here.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:439497
But I found i didn't need a probe!
(what can I say, i paid attention while building!, the bed is glass, and therefore flat, and i spent some time making the frame and rods right, so calibration does not budge. ever, at all, not even a tiny bit, well only when I change nozzle)
But I did manage to knacker a thermistor AND heater in striping down and rebuilding a few times when the hotend clogged, so i thought rather than a probe some connection points for the thermistor and fan might be more useful, so I added a square hole to take a 4-way dupont connector with a screw to lock it in place, i push the 4way through the top of the plate until a couple of mm are sticking out below the plate, then make short leads onto the thermistor and the fan, and plug these in from the underside. Makes life very easy when stripping down!
I have a couple of heavy duty spade connectors on the heater leads, pop these open,
unplug and remove the fan,
unplug the thermistor,
then i can just screw the heaterblock straight out of the hotend - Simples!
Also I kinda hate the captive nut approach as there is not enough room to get at the damn things, so i adopted slots. they are a bit oversize, sometimes i need to wedge a small screwdriver down between a flat on the nut and the side of the hole to tighten up. a bit crap, but much easier than supporting the effector and rod end, threading in a bolt and trying to keep the captive nut in position....
It's probably a bit heavy, but it hasn't caused me any problems so far...(famous last words)