March 4, 2020
Description
I addition to being exactly what the title says, this electronics enclosure has some handy QOL improvements over the stock RAMBo case:
1 ) The door is on the outside of the printer. You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to work on wiring without the bed being in the way. That being said, the door is extremely rudimentary in the moment, in essence just a big plate held in place with three screws with no hinge mechanism.
2 ) There are slots around the Duet mount that can accept up to 11 copies of the "cable holder" part, that, unsurprisingly, holds cables in place to ease cable management.
3 ) All four screws that attach this component to the frame of the printer can be accessed from the outside, which means no more messing with flimsy ball-end hex keys inside tight spaces.
4 ) The extruder and heatbed cables are being held upwards, as opposed to the flatter leaving angles of the MK2S. This prevents the extruder cable from touching the print and ruining it and the bed cable from getting stuck on the linear rod mounts.
5 ) There is a STEP file for those who want to modify the parts using a normal CAD package.
The project took heavy inspiration from the Universal einsy box (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3901001) and Universal Zaribo einsy box (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3239428) by JuanPuchol over on Thingiverse, particularly with the cable holders.
0.4mm nozzle
0.2mm layer height
supports off
The material does not really matter, use whatever you have and like.
The main body of the case and the extruder and heatbed cable holders have some special design features (the holes for M3 and M4 nuts have some very thin features that help with overhangs) that work best when printed with a 0.2 mm layer height. You are free to use any weird layer height you like with the other models.
After printing, mount the box onto the printer frame with M3x10 screws, the same way you would mount the stock box. The Duet is held in place by M4x10 screws with M4 nuts, the cables use M3x16 screws with M3 nuts and the lid uses M3x10 screws with nuts.
I may make an assembly manual if I have time some day in the future (Which I probaly won't).
License:
GNU General Public License v3.0
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