Bronze Bushing Upgrade (w/ PTFE) for FF Creator

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Anyone With A Flashforge Creator Knows It Is A Loud Machine. The Improvements Upon The Makerbot Replicator Are Nice, But Not As Refined As They Could Be. After 3 Km+ Of Filament Through My Machine I Got Sick Of Hearing It. Seeing A Few Designs To Replace The Crappy Roller Bearings With Bronze Bushings (Get Ptfe Lined Ones To Help Wear On Your Shafts), I Wanted To Upgrade. Only Problem Was I Couldn'T Acquire The Bushings The Designs Were For. I Also Decided To Go With Ptfe Lined Bushings To Decrease Wear On The Shafts. Hopefully Mcmaster-Carr Will Keep These In Stock For A While. _____________ I Already Replaced My Fans With Quieter Ones From Digi-Key, And Added Active Cooling (I Have A Good Design I'Ve Been Sitting On For A Year That I Need To Finalize And Upload). I Just Need Pillow Blocks And My Machine Will Be Fully Upgraded! (Open To Suggestions) Edit 7/5/16 **(Extremely Important)**: Finally Got Around To Installing This And While It Works Well, I Must Have Shorted A Thermocouple Wire Because I Have Tool 0 Failure And My Bot Won'T Work. Be Careful When Removing/Installing The Carriage! This Can Also Happen From Natural Fatigue Of The Metal As The Printer Moves. I Just May Have Accelerated It. In Any Event, After You Have Completed Reassembly, Check To Make Sure The Thermocouple Leads On The Board Are Isolated From The Heater Block Or Really Anywhere Else There. Also Check For Conductivity Across The Thermocouple Wire (Thermocouple Is A Resistive Closed Circuit), However If It Is An Open Circuit, But Not Shorted To The Heater Block, The Results Will Not Be As Catastrophic. I Recommend Replacing Your Thermocouples With Stranded Thermocouples (More Fatigue Resistance) Like These Ones: Https://Www.P3-D.Com/Products/Replicator-2-2X-Thermocouple Preferably Before It Fails, But Definitely After, As Expensive As They Are As Per 'Jetguy' Recommendation On The Ff Google Group. I Blew My Max6675 Adc For The Thermocouple Because Of The Short. Doing These Simple Conductivity Checks With A Multimeter Before Turning On My Bot Could Have Saved Me A $15 Ic + Shipping, Many Hours Of Googling And Troubleshooting, And Going On 2 Weeks Of Downtime For My Printer. If I Didn'T Have An Electronics Background And Enough Soldering Xp To Deal With This Myself, I Could Be Looking At Multiple Printer Boards (>$300+ Ouch!). Check Your Work, Especially When Its This Easy! If Only I Knew.... If You Want Some More Intel On This Matter, Refer To This Forum: Https://Groups.Google.Com/Forum/#!Topic/Flashforge/Emcjg-Vx7O0 Edit 7/30/16: Having My Printer Down For A Month Sucked But It'S Back Up And Running, And More Awesome Than Ever! Refer To Above Forum Post If You Break Your Machine, It Sucks But Definitely Not The End Of The World And Not Bad To Fix If You Catch It Early.

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