Filmanent Sensor Switchbox #3DThursday #3DPrinting

from Filmanent Sensor Switchbox #3DThursday #3DPrinting
by Stephanie

Filament sensor switchbox remix for maplin roller microswitch by buxton Thingiverse

From buxton on Thingiverse:

The original Thing by bookmake was nearly a perfect fit for Maplin’s “Minature Microswitch with Roller” (Maplin product code N97AQ), except the gap for the lever arm and roller wasn’t quite right – didn’t extend far enough towards the left.

So, I took their STL in to Fusion360, cut away a bunch of the “out” side of the filament guide path. A test print revealed that the part was also a little too small along the Y-axis such that the switch was being clicked just by putting the microswitch in to position, so I stretched out the space between switch-holder and filament path by 1.5mm to solve that. (The part is not just rescaled in whole – I cut it in a couple of places and stretched just the necessary area.)

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get Fusion to behave to resize the lid in the same way, so I just trimmed it back. It still works (the lid helps hold the switch in place), so I’ve called it “good enough”.

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