Kossel Wire Cable Frame Braces 2020 (Unlock WARP SPEED)

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Turn Your Kossel From A Wobbly Tower That Rings Like A Bell Into A Rigid, No-Nonsense, Crisp-Printing Etc. Etc. Etc. Thing Of Awesomeness With These Snazzy-Looking Anchors For Steel Wire Frame Braces And Increase Either Your Quality Or Speed/Acceleration By A Lot (Or Meet In The Middle Someplace), Hurray! Really, This Mod Is More About Improving Quality Than Speed; In Quantitative Terms, I'D Say My Ghosting/Ringing Artifacts For Perimeters Printed At 40Mm/S, 2500Mm/S^2, And 10 Jerk (Inner/Outer) Are Now <I>Less</I> Visible Than They Were Pre-Mod At 30Mm/S, 1200Mm/S^2, And 5 Jerk (Outer) + 35 Mm/S, 1500Mm/S^2, And 10 Jerk (Inner), Which Translates Into A Seriously Healthy Speed Boost For An Actual Improvement In Visible Quality. But On The Other Hand, This Mod Will Also Set Your Printer Up To Withstand Some Pretty Foolish Print Speeds, And Let'S Be Honest, Which Is More Fun? It'S Basically The Same Benefit You'D Get From Screwing Big, Thick Panels Of Something Stiff To All Three Sides Of Your Printer. Or Close, Anyway, And Waaaaaay Less Involved. Important Disclaimers: This Mod Is Fairly Quick To Print, Remarkably Easy To Mount, Has A Dead Cheap Bom, And Offers Huge And Instant Benefits, But It Comes With The Tradeoffs Of A Moderately Reduced Build Envelope (Update 10.24.18: Unless You Use These New Spreader Arms: Https://Www.Thingiverse.Com/Thing:3173546 -- Otherwise It'S Going To Cut Off Three Outside Chunks Of The Build Platform Somewhere Near The Inward Extent Of The Horizontal Frame Members) And The Need To Really Verify Your Bowden/Wiring Clearances And Look For New Potential Sources Of Wear -- Plus You Could Theoretically Destroy Your Frame Corners If You Don'T Take Your Time Tensioning The Setup Evenly, Although This Mod Is Specifically Designed To Make It Very Difficult To Apply Uneven Tension That Would Wrack Your Frame To Death. Also, I Would Not Recommend Doing This Mod Without Also Having Some Compatible Corner Braces, Like Mine (Https://Www.Thingiverse.Com/Thing:2474583), That Will Transfer Twisting Moments On The Uprights Into The Horizontals, Because Otherwise I Think This Mod Could Eventually Cam The Uprights Enough To Split Your Corners. But Hey, You'Re A Big Girl/Boy And You Want Warp Speed, Right? Read On To The Design Section And I'Ll Share A Semi-Secret That'S Holding You Back If You'Ve Never Monkeyed With The Stock Anycubic Firmware Settings, Too! Anywise. Also See The Design Section For All My Reasoning That Led To This Design. You'Ll Need 3 Each Of The Adjustable And Fixed Anchors, 3 Of The Screw Adjust Mounts, 6 Clamp Washers, And 1 Double Eye Join, Plus: - 1/16" Steel Cable (About 4.5 Meters For An Anycubic Kossel Xl, Or Estimate By Taking Your Frame'S Top To Bottom Diagonal Measurement Times 6 + 10%). - 3X M5X20 Bolts (Socket Head) - 6X M5X12 Bolts (Socket Head) - 9X M5 Nuts - 15X M4X12 Bolts (Socket Head) - 15X M4 Nuts - 4X Wire Clips (Preferably The Screw-On Kind, Not The Permanent Ones) To Fit The Wire - Drinking Straws In Your Favorite Color - Kapton Tape Or Similar Special Tools: - Wire Clippers - A Ball-End Hex Key To Fit Your M5 Bolts Will Make Life Much Easier. After I Put This On My Printer I Couldn'T Resist Dialing Up The Speed And Acceleration To Stupid Speeds And Trying To Print A Benchy, And I Was Pretty Shocked When Something Came Out In Half An Hour That Actually Looked Like A Benchy. Is It Great? Heck No! My Long Ol' Bowden And Direct Drive Extruder Can'T Even Approach Keeping Up With These Kinds Of Speeds. On The Other Hand, The Visible Ringing Artifacts Wouldn'T Have Been Out Of Place On This Machine At Half The Speed, If That, Before I Put This Mod On It. So At The End Of The Day It Is A Vast Improvement, But Like With Most Such Mods You Push Out One Limitation And Put The Pedal Down Only To Find The Next Limitation Waiting :) In The Case Of My Anycubic Kossel, It'S Definitely The Extruder Followed By The Risk Of The Steppers Skipping When Doing Psycho Travel Moves Near The Outside Of The Build Envelope. Update Log: 6.16.18: I Beefed Up The Eye Join With More Meat In The Middle And A Thick Cross-Brace; The Original V2 Had No Cross-Bracing And Could Crack Under The Compression Of The Wire Loop, Allowing Loss Of Tension. 10.24.18: Spreader Arms Posted To Help Fix Most Of The Volume Loss Issue: Https://Www.Thingiverse.Com/Thing:3173546

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