ak morning YouTube so I'm doing a little work on my Taipei machines series one Pro 3d printer I've
got the extruder taken apart it actually comes apart pretty easily there's just one screw that
holds the front of the extruder onto the backside you've got your hot end right here and that just
fits up inside there and you've got your filament cooler that that faces down on the build platform
and the reason I have this apart is the fan there in the back has started making noise when it first
starts up so the folks at Taipei machines sent me out a new fan so it's a 40 millimeter fan
the only strange thing about them is they're 24 volts so I guess everything on this printer is
24 volts instead of 5 or 12 volts so I've got to get the fan off the back side there yeah let's
see this is your filament guide here there's two Allen screws up there that hold that on and other
than that from this point down everything's all metal I guess this is that called the g2 extruder
and I've got the point four millimeter nozzle in there so anyway I've got to get to that fan
see if I can get the old one out it's actually pretty easy to work on this one screw here holds
the front there's two screws that hold that fan on and the one thing I've noticed is you need to
be careful with the getting these wires up out of the way when you put this together so you have to
get those wires above these wires so you want the the hot end wires to be below there so these don't
hang down okay I got the fan loose back there just wanted to make sure I see how the cables run so
you got the fan as the wires went off the tongue and they come in yeah so they come in and through
this loop back here and then let's see there's actually two connectors on top looks like the
the part cooler fan is here and then the extruder fan is the second one back okay so got the old fan
out and one thing I guess they don't mention is they've drilled the holes out in the fan these are
four millimeter screws okay there we go YouTube just drilled out the two diagonal corners four
millimeter bit just kind of went slow so I didn't break anything but now the mounting screws will go
through their back this side has a recess yeah they stick through just just a little bit there
okay YouTube but got the printer on so you have a two and a half millimeter allen for the jet screw
and then the fan screws are two millimeters so the you get both allen keys the only thing is I
probably would like a longer one of these because this is right up next to the fan there that one
is not making any noise now but it's good okay YouTube I think I finally got tired of fooling
around with these wires notice that we're getting a little bit frayed insulation down here and so I
popped him out of the little connector there and ran some heat-shrink over there from half an inch
out from where they come out of the fan over here to kind of protect that section and then I made an
educated guess that this was probably abs and I had a little scrap of ABS from a test piece that
I did I just cuts out off put a little couple drops of acetone and kind of wiggle the piece
around a little bit and now that basically fills in that gap and forces the wires up so
because right here is where the extruder is right right behind you can see there's the hole so the
extruder is just maybe a millimeter or two below this surface here it's really close and you got
to keep those wires up and out of that area there so I think this should do the trick and this will
make it so when you put it back together they're automatically out of the way instead of having
to make sure you get them routed properly because that's that's what I did last time as I forgot to
get these wires tucked out of the way completely and they started rubbing they've rubbed because
when that hangs down this wire right here will get down right into the hot plastic and it
starts burning the are you know just wearing the insulation away there hopefully that'll do the
trick I will clean this up a little bit put it back on the printer and we'll see how it works
so I just thought I'd pass on that little tip that would be really nice thing if they added to their
3d model of this fan diverter that's basically all this is is it just diverts the the airflow
of the fan to blow this way over the right over the extruded point okay there we go you tube and
I think this will work much better so there's my little piece of plastic I added and the heat
shrink goes around the middle part of the hot end extruder there and then wraps around so you can
kind of come through here through this loop of wire back there and then up into the connector
I think that'll keep the wire well out of the way I don't have to worry about it anymore and
you can see how close the extruder is there to the bottom you got to keep everything up here I
give that a little bit of a sanding so it's nice and smooth yeah I think that's gonna work a lot
better I was thinking I might try to find if I could get a hold of that 3d model and modify it
but it's just so easy to glue on a extra piece with more time to download the file and edit it
and clean it up and all that sort of stuff versus a couple drops acetone and a scrap of plastic and
it's good to go so I think I'm gonna give this a try yeah let you know if if I run into any
problems but I think this should solve my big issue with that fan and the wires right there
it's just the cable management it's always a problem so you got it make sure everything's out
of the way before you fire it up and I didn't do that last time so now I think this should
keep those wires out of the way automatically and I don't need to check that so if you have
any comments or questions post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching