Community Favorite Better z height adjustment mod

Works great easy to do and gives great results and reliability and ease of adjustment

 

you do not need to buy a tap just use a drill bit slight smaller than the bolt you intend to use use it sill cut its own path

 

It really depends on the screw you want to use. To be honest, I simply looked for a bolt that was long enough and then looked for the drill bit nothing really too fancy. Most likely you have along enough screw someplace already and it simply requires a hole slightly smaller what ever size it may be, within reason of course.

 

looks great. It really is a super easy mod that is amazing in how well it works hats off to cambo for this one

 

Jeff, slightly larger or smaller?

 

Mine has been moded. )))

 

Slight remix to this great mod:

I've noticed a few stress cracks in some of the molded parts so I wasn't feeling too great about drilling into that carriage. So, I remixed the mod. Same concept, slightly different execution.

Rather than drilling, I made a little bracket for the 6-32 screw that mounts to the lower right corner bolt pattern for the x-axis motor.
Z limit switch mount was rotated out by about 45 degrees.
Also, rather than put in a piece of tubing as a spacer (because I forgot to grab one when I was at the store), I just butted the limit switch bracket to the z-rod bracket.
I may also add a little flag to the bottom of the screw to help ensure good contact to the switch.

Here's a pic and the stl file.

 

Soupa that is how you adjust the nozzle height for the best printing this information is spread all over this forum

 

adjusting the original one was very time consuming in accurate and awkward to do and since you had to do it on a regular basis to get your prints to turn out well it was not a good setup this mod takes care of that it is not quite simple to accurately adjust this.

Just as an FYI most mods shown here have the original issues well documented prior to the mod being created or else the mod would not have been made in the first place so the issue is here and in great detail.