January 27, 2017
Description
A detachable fan holder for Anet A8. Should fit any extruder block that was designed to hold a 4cm fan on it.
Make sure you adjust the magnet holes using OpenSCAD. Just open the SCAD file, edit the "magnet_diam" variable, press F6 to compile the model and hit "»STL" to export the STL file.
With a detachable design, the heatsink becomes pretty much useless - if you don't think so you should probably read some basic middle-school physics book. It would be like not having a fan at all: the heatsink doesn't touch any hot parts. Also, having the fan blow directly into the extruder block has the side effect of pushing any filament debris away, which is usually a good thing.
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