in this episode I'll show you four simple modifications you can make to
your CR-10 Mini. Filament Friday is brought to you every week by the
generous donations of my Patreon supporters. The first mod I tried was the
CR 10 spool holder frame mount by user chrzr on Thingiverse I printed that
on my CR 10 and then I took the mount off my CR 10 mini. The CR 10 came with
these spare parts which are t-nuts and screws and this bracket seemed to be
designed perfectly for them because the screws fit in the holes with just enough
length for the t-nuts so I installed those both of them and then the bracket
slides into the slot and then you tighten them with the thumb screws like
you did on the original CR 10 mount. Now these are a little tight and hard to do
with the finger but it's got a screw head Phillips head so I just tighten it
with a screwdriver and this seem pretty solid at the time anyway and I actually
had mounted this on my CR 10 full size but then I realized I'm gonna put an
adjustment knob on this thing so this is gonna get in the way so I found another
spot I wanted to try and that's in the back of the CR 10 mini and once I got it
mounted I wasn't happy with how tight it was and that's when I thought you know
what I can't just drill these out and put T
nuts on directly so I drilled out the bracket and then found some shorter
screws the other ones were a little too long these were still too long but added
a couple washers and then it worked so I put the T nuts on the end of those
screws and then I mounted just this bracket no 3d print to the back of the
printer and I slid it in place tightened it up and this thing seemed to
be working really well it seemed really solid so once that was in place actually
ended up moving this in a little bit more towards the center of the printer
but once I had that this looked really good the spool holder post was a little
bit too big I've had a few spools that didn't fit and I found this one from
John J on Thingiverse so I printed it out and it mounted perfectly to the
existing CR-10 bracket and all the threads printed beautifully this was at
a 0.3 layer height. I did this on my Prusa mk2s so
once that was there at the nice red contrasting color I was ready to move on
to the next mod and I found this filament guide by user Gregg one nine
one one three four this thing turned out to be so amazing how well it mounted. It
guides the filament in away from the threaded rod and it also holds the
wiring and here's the one that I made now it printed very simple at a point
three layer height I did that on the CR 10 but you can see there's a lip that's
inside this thing underneath and then it just pushes out into place I thought the
screws held it out but it didn't you just push it on at an angle and then
just keep working it until it snaps over the top of the screw heads and once it
snaps in it's it's on there you can take it back off but it's on there really
good and then it's got a nice zigzag here to hold the filament it's this is a
great design and then the clip itself holds the wiring for the hot end so once
that was in place that was an easy fix I moved on to the next one. I like the
single z-axis threaded rod it makes it easy to move and I found this knob by
user baschz on thingiverse. So I printed it out and it also prints a little
bracket that goes around it so you got to replace the existing bracket at the
top of the threaded rod and then put on this new one that has a bigger hole
bigger gap for the knob so it uses the same screws and they fit in perfectly I
just tighten it down both sides and it fit a little tight but that's perfect so
once it fit in then I screwed the knob on to the threaded rod and I wanted
this to fit tight enough so I grabbed the pliers and just held it so I could
get the knob tight but mostly you're gonna be turning it away so it lifts the
thing up or down and gravity's gonna help you so there isn't a lot of force
on this but it really worked well and makes it so easy to lift this thing up
like if I want to push filament through quickly or want to get it away from the
print. The final item is the CR 10 knob for adjusting the bed I found this one
by danbear on Thingiverse I really like these things on my Tevo tornado so I
printed one out that's the black one but I could not get the knob
to fit in so I went back to simplify 3d and this time I printed it at a hundred
and two percent I found that when something doesn't fit right just bump it
up two percent and typically that works so I did that and here's the rest of the
settings at at a point three layer height thirty percent fill I did this on
my Prusa MK2s at pretty standard PLA temperatures I did it at a 60
millimeters per second and when I sliced it it said it would only take 33 minutes
to print a knob which is awesome five point five meters of plastic so I
printed one out 102 percent seemed to work great the CR-10 knob pressed
right in place nice and tight here's the finished design I love the red on black
color scheme and this is just a great printer and I love using it so this just
makes it better. If you like this type of work maybe check out some of my other
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