When I built my gMax, I decided I would skip a normal j-head hotend and go straight to the E3D. My gMax is built with all of the 1.5 version parts. I did not have any trouble getting the E3Dv6 to fit.
However, the fan shroud was not long enough as was mentioned before. The shroud itself has a fairly complicated geometry that I did not really want to mess with. Instead I focused on the bracket the connects to the fan shroud. I altered it to simply drop the fan and the shroud down about 12mm to compensate for the extra length in the hotend. I did have to turn the hotend to an angle to allow room for the heater block so that it wouldn't contact the fan shroud.
I thought about posting the same way as I have with the other changes I posted using github and thingiverse, but decided not to. Like with the electronics covers I did, the OpenSCAD file relies on the original stl file. However I found that OpenSCAD has an issue with that stl file. I had to run the fan bracket file through netfabb's model repair site before OpenSCAD would generate its own stl. Distributing all of that together would get a little messy, so I'm just posting the resulting stl here.
This is for the single extruder fan bracket only for now since I do not have a second extruder to test a dual extruder setup with. If I get another hotend I will update that bracket as well. I had to zip the file as apparently stl files are not allowed as attachments.
Pictures will be coming soon.
However, the fan shroud was not long enough as was mentioned before. The shroud itself has a fairly complicated geometry that I did not really want to mess with. Instead I focused on the bracket the connects to the fan shroud. I altered it to simply drop the fan and the shroud down about 12mm to compensate for the extra length in the hotend. I did have to turn the hotend to an angle to allow room for the heater block so that it wouldn't contact the fan shroud.
I thought about posting the same way as I have with the other changes I posted using github and thingiverse, but decided not to. Like with the electronics covers I did, the OpenSCAD file relies on the original stl file. However I found that OpenSCAD has an issue with that stl file. I had to run the fan bracket file through netfabb's model repair site before OpenSCAD would generate its own stl. Distributing all of that together would get a little messy, so I'm just posting the resulting stl here.
This is for the single extruder fan bracket only for now since I do not have a second extruder to test a dual extruder setup with. If I get another hotend I will update that bracket as well. I had to zip the file as apparently stl files are not allowed as attachments.
Pictures will be coming soon.
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