Filament Guide, Sensor, Cleaner & Cable management for the CR-10 with MK8 Aluminium Extruder

#Filament Guide, Sensor, Cleaner & Cable management for the CR-10 with MK8 Aluminium Extruder

Note: these parts are very much still prototypes and need testing and feedback

With the Aluminium upgrade, you can't really put something over the top like on the stock MK8 extruder so this bracket is designed to sit under the MK8 and brings together many things into an all in one bracket.

1. filament out sensor, which is designed to take a small piece of Bowden PTFE tube as an inlet
2. filament cleaner, which can take any material works for you, I recommend a strip of sponge folded in half.
3. filament guide, which is designed to use a piece of Bowden PTFE from the cleaner to the Aluminium extruder all the way to the feeder gear
4. cable management

The sensor is meant to be a common end stop switch. Make sure you get the one where the switch is 90 degrees to the PCB like in the picture.
To buy the sensor simply do a search for "Mechanical Endstop NO Limit Switch" in ebay, amazon etc

To set this up on your Octopi follow the instructions in this youtube vid

and for more details follow the instruction on the Thingiverse this is remixed from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2480901

####Update 1

• Printed prototype and made many changes
• No longer rests under MK8
• Reduced no of parts by 1
• Reduced the need for supports
• Sensor section now slides into place and clips in place

####Update 2

• Printed many prototypes and made many tweaks and fixes
• Improved mounting with screws and attachment to frame
• Sensor module is now more streamlined