VertX

manu-x-carriage-struder

Release status: concept

Description	a direct-drive extruder/x-carriage for the V9 hotend (for the moment)
License	GPL
Author	User:Emmanuel
Contributors
Based-on
Categories	Development
CAD Models	http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10711
External Link

Inspiration

• EMAKER_Huxley
• Huxley-eg
• The Gen X Skb-Kiparis remix I discovered on this thread : http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?94,84403,93044#msg-93044
• Orca and the v9

I wanted to design a vertical carriage with linear bearings, but mixed with the V9 (direct drive, no damn PTFE, no mouting block) to make it even simpler. And thus came this "carriage-struder".

Benefits

• only 2 pieces (in replacement of 5-10 pieces, compared to the original sells carriage or the prusa or the open-x-carriage, plus an extruder)
• with LM8UU (locked by zip-tie)
• active cooling with a little fan, mounted on only one point to just rotate it if needed to access at the inside/unmount the hotend

• a very compact/accessible extruder ^^
• "Double pulley driven" x-carriage (inspired from http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?2,85051)
• Bearing holders tend less to snap, thanks to the printing orientation (remarked by Action68)

• in case of snaping/removing the filament, the idler will bump on the body of the x-carriage without damaging the brass insert of the direct drive
• the whole x-axis may be assembled without removing any Z-rods (except to put the linear bearing on it)
• the distance between the x-ends is 235mm

Mendel

V0.3a

V0.2

And the x-ends that will have to be tested too. The spacing between the Z rods are for a Sells Mendel, to replace the classic x-axis (don't checked for a Prusa but if different that may not be difficult to adapt and re-export)

V0.2.2

<flickr>6060884422|left</flickr>

<flickr>6070660239|left</flickr>

V0.2.1

V0.1 (not tested yet)

When looking back at the eMaker, maybe two LM8UU can be enough ?

Files

FILE ID#	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	AVAILABLE FORMATS	CREATED/BY
v0.1	.STL	x-carriage-body	(save as)	--Emmanuel
v0.1	.STL	x-carriage-idler	(save as)	--Emmanuel

Also on Thingiverse (but I prefer the wiki to manage the versions, I tried github but maybe not for me yet)

Orca

V1b

Not tested yet and could be refined (rounded edges, some details, inverting the bearing parts that drive the belt to hang it close to the linear bearing and thus make it more compact)

But it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement of the actual x-carriage :

FILE ID#	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	AVAILABLE FORMATS	CREATED/BY
v1b	.STL	x-carriage-struder_body	(save as)	--Emmanuel
v0.1	.STL	x-carriage-struder_idler	(save as)	--Emmanuel