good morning YouTube so I've been running the auto bed leveling sensor on my Taipei machine series
1 Pro 3d printer for a while now so that's the proximity sensor with the blue tip on it Taipei
machines supplied a small bracket 3d printed part there they only supplied a g-code file and this
was set up for 0.2 millimeter layer height i tried printing a replacement in abs but i have the point
6 millimeter nozzle in there and it just wouldn't print the fine detail and it ended up breaking
off right there it's in a way this this was the original part that taipei machines supplied and
i think they printed theirs in a polycarbonate plastic and it just broke off right at that thin
section on both sides of the threads what i found was one of the users on the taipei machines forum
named Duncan had designed this replacement part is just a beefier part there's a lot more meat
in the sides here and it's also a lot taller it's like twice almost twice the height he designed it
to fit on the far side over there behind the fan so he made a replacement fan bracket so I used his
part here his sensor holder and when he print this out you've got to chase the threads here with an
m12 by one tap so I had to pick up one of those and then you also have to chase this hole for
an m3 by 0.5 screw what I've done has made this replacement out of some stainless steel I had
just cut a piece the height of the sensor holder there and then I bent a 90 degree and then glued
it in place so I think that's going to be pretty solid and I wanted to keep the sensor over here
because with my setup it's just a lot easier to reach in on this side to get to it then to reach
way behind if I didn't have this enclosure on the printer it would probably be easier to get
to on the other side so being right-handed and having the best access to the sensor on that side
I figured it's easier to get to there okay there you can see I've dropped the fan out of the the
bracket there and then these are the two screws down there where the sensor bracket is going to
mount and then there's three holes so what I need to do is Mark where these three holes are on here
and then I'll drill matching holes here instead of cutting out this whole bottom piece like Taipei
machines did I figure instead of weakening this piece here I'll just drill holes I might have
to drill for more up on top yeah so there you can see where the bracket just fell apart this time I
took it apart so yeah it fell into three pieces now let's see four pieces so you got that piece
that piece this piece and then actually five pieces there there's two three four and then
the main chunk of it okay YouTube I think I got that sorted out got my bracket to fit on to the
heatsink and the way I drilled the holes I just screwed it on like that and then I took a three
and a half millimeter drill bit in my drill press and just drilled down through all the holes saying
oh it looks like it might have to get those two so I got two more holes I guess I have to drill
okay there we go youtube I think I got this all sorted out I had to run my m12 by one tap through
this bracket several times because I wanted to get it fairly easy to spin and then I had to
clearance out with a triangle file groove out a little bit so when I tighten the screw down
it had enough clamping force to hold it okay I think I got the sensor dialed in so we're
gonna run through the auto level test model here let's do it now it's checking a grid locations
across the bed and then it calculates a surface plane for the bed surface printed a little bit
yeah let me clean up the fed and then we got a let see so what I
have to do is counterclockwise so I gather let's go down like
there's about a quarter turn and then let's see if we can go try that again
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but hey look at that I think we got success they're running on all the wrong parameters
but look at that and I think that is pretty good so yeah if you have any comments or
know anything about these sensors if if you know if those can be very top part there if
that black part is supposed to spin on the threaded part or if that's okay if it's not
okay what I'd probably do is run a little bit of adhesive around there so that they
don't spin if there's just wires inside there those wires are gonna twist off and then the
sensor is yes garbage at that point yeah I guess they'd better get back to work here
so just wanted to show you the bed level sensor all updated don't put any follow-up
videos over here on the left side and yeah if you have any feedback on on how those sensors
work if they're meant to spin like that or not let me know and as always thanks for watching