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Dual parts cooling fan for volcano

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  1. robert sanchez

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    Ok so looking at how @Marquis Johnson made his tool-less dual cooling fans for the regular e3d-v6, I came up with a design for an e3d-v6 with a volcano. I've been slacking and should have doen this a long time ago.

    If it works, you'd be able to do dual cooling fans with out tools and still be able to raise the carriage into the housing.

    Its printing now, lets see how it turns out. I'll test it tonight, if it works I'll post files.

    The new cooling fan duct is on the right, @Marquis Johnson 's cooling fan is on the left.
    Note this is a sectioned view. volcano sectioned.jpg
     
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    The one on the left visually looks like it is aimed at the heater block, I would hope that is not actually the case :)
     
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    @mark tomlinson the one on the left was designed for a non-volcano, regular e3d-v6. Thus the reason for a redesign specifically for the volcano.
     
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    That makes total sense. I had one I cobbled together from someone else and it works pretty much the way you have it drawn.
     
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    Yea, except that one would not quite fit. I have an E3D v5 on the volcano machine, not the v6 :)
    They are not quite the same spacing.
     
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    Both this thread and the linked thing talk about the v6 though?
     
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    Great, wish I would have seen that sooner. This is what happens when you slack on a project and start it back up without checking to see if some one solved it.

    Well there goes 3 hours of CAD, at least I was able to practice in SW 2016.
     
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    Print both and see whether the other design works better than yours or not.

    Test things!
     
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    fan mount wire.jpg image.jpeg image.jpeg Ok first draft sucked. But the second one worked and I now have about 188mm vertical clearance.
     
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    image.jpeg Colorfab plh/pla image.jpeg
     
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