8020 clip profiles for snap mount in 8020 and similar extrusions
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My Printer Was Built Using Scrap 8020 Extrusions And I Ended Up With A Mix Of The Stuff Made By 8020 And Similar Stuff Made By Someone Else. The 8020 Stuff Has Little Grooves In The Surface Along The Length Of The Extrusion, The Other Type Is Smooth. I Recently Made Some Changes To The Printer And Needed Clips That Fit Both Profiles And Found That The Internal Dimensions Of The Central Slots Is A Little Different With The Two Types Of Extrusion. My Old Clips Worked Ok For Both, But I Wanted Something That Would Grip Even Tighter, So I Redesigned The Profiles Of The Clips. The New Profiles Are In The Sketchup File. I Recently Redesigned The Extruder Carriage On My Printer, Megamax, And Needed A New Way To Mount The X-Axis Limit Switches And Something To Bump Into Them. The "Flag" And Switch Mounts In The Sketchup File Are What I Came Up With. The Switch Mounts Use The 8020 Profile. The Flag Just Grabs Onto The Drive Belt, But Grips It Tightly And Stays Where You Put It. It Is Easily Relocatable. I Use Microswitches Because They Require Only Two Wires, But It Would Be Easy To Adapt The Flag And Switch Mounts For Opto Type Limit Switches. The Profiles In The Sketchup File Are The Real Goodies Here. You Can Adapt Them To Make Any Sort Of Clip /Mount That You Need- Just Don'T Mess With The Part That Fits Into The Slot In The 8020 Rail! It Took A Lot Of Careful Measurement And Trial And Error To Get Those Things Just Right!
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