Tevo Little Monster - 80 mm + Direct Drive and Remote Fans
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Hi All,
My holiday project for this year has been converting my Tevo Little Monster with Smart Effectors for use with a direct drive, getting rid of the last of the original knockoff parts, and switching to a remote blower fan to make my printer much quieter. I used Asyborgs 80mm adapter for the smart effector, and did up the remaining parts to mount a direct drive extruder and cooling.
Previously my flying extruder always shook around a bunch and seemed to make artifacts in the print regularly. It also didn't work particularly well with soft plastics. The direct drive mount shakes much less, seems to print better and faster, and gave me a good chance to remove the heatsink fan from the effector.
I've now got the part cooling fan (berd air pump) and the heatsink blower fan remote mounted in my printer table, where I don't hear them. It's great. Super quiet.I had to design a few new parts including:
- 80mm Carriage Adapter - link
- LGX Lite Adapter Plate - link
- Berd air pipe carriers for smart effectors - link
- CPAP hose carrier for smart effector - link
- CPAP hose joiners
- Blower Fan Mount
Other stuff I've made for this is up on my printables profile now.
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@moocowsia you can post links after you have a couple of upvotes to avoid people posting spam here as a first post.
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@T3P3Tony said in Tevo Little Monster - 80 mm + Direct Drive and Remote Fans:
@moocowsia you can post links after you have a couple of upvotes to avoid people posting spam here as a first post.
No worries. Thanks for the upvote. I've added the links to the printables parts.
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@moocowsia I guess you had to raise the LGX so much, because of the extruder motor sticking out?
I know these Orbiter and LGX extruders are en vogue but I still prefer my "tall and slim" sherpa mini -
@o_lampe said in Tevo Little Monster - 80 mm + Direct Drive and Remote Fans:
@moocowsia I guess you had to raise the LGX so much, because of the extruder motor sticking out?
I know these Orbiter and LGX extruders are en vogue but I still prefer my "tall and slim" sherpa miniI mostly just put the riser on it so I have a bit of room to adjust the heatsink under the mounting plate. I could probably get away with a smaller rise, but I only had 5mm and 20mm brass standoffs to pick from.
Based on geometry, I could probably get away with zero standoff on the extruder, but I couldn't figure out how to assemble it.
I've got a kit of various standoffs coming from AliExpress in the next month or two, so I might rejig it then. I've also got a Orbiter and another (my fourth) smart effector to do up as well. We'll see how that all goes together soon. I might be able to ditch the brass and simplify it on the second attempt.
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@moocowsia said in Tevo Little Monster - 80 mm + Direct Drive and Remote Fans:
I couldn't figure out how to assemble it.
You could print an adapter plate that holds the heatsink-nut and fits under the LGX.
Then screw the heatsink in before you mount the hotend/heatbrake.
You might have to rotate the nut in the adapter a few times, before everything is tight and aligned nicely.
