/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1584599
>both of the fans fail on the ender 3 from sucking in microscopic plastic
Ooof.
Well mine are still running and I went through a couple of spools. If they get clogged for some reason I'll clean them. If not possible, I'll replace them. I don't see a reason to print guards around them to keep that from happening.
I also don't want to add weight to the print head.

>improve the maximum overhang angle if you had bothered to do any research at all
Sure you can improve overhangs by a little with autistic mods but my overhangs are very fine for me. I'm too lazy to get into that because a lot of people say it's not worth the hassle and the improvement is little.
I've done research on that and what I couldn't see was a scientific approach to determine non biased before/after changes.

If at all I'd approach a proper dual blower Ultimaker style cooling.

>Custom fan guides are necessary to re-orient the fans and keep stray plastic out of them.
Sorry to tell you that this never happened with mine.

>Cable management mods also prevent them from catching on things
Catching to what? Theres literally nothing in the way and I've done 260mm prints.
I've had one that plugs on the rear end of the left bottom rail but that obsoleted with the damping feet.

>Your 3d printed PSU cover will also break
I don't have a 3D printed PSU cover

>still running the plastic extruder too which is a failure waiting to happen.
What should fail on the plastic extruder? Except the teeth wearing out but thats not the plastics fail.
I actually pulled the spring to increase the clamping force and it still didn't snap.

As I said above Ender modding is a sport and has a raging community.