Curious if someone encountered and solved this already? My Vac hose is 2.5", stock LR3 hose is 1.5". Currently using Doug Joseph’s 2.5 Hose Hangers which are great, but some things have been bugging me though…
problem: Anyone else observing their 2.5" vac hose with attached power wiring sagging and slapping against their Y-belt, or caught on the rear left belt holder block even? Also seeing hose lifting up the case too, doesn’t help if the wiring is bundled inside the hanger with the hose.
fix: Cobbled together a hanger mod with :
Wider girth for my oversized 2-5" hose.
Ziptie channels so wiring can be fastened outside the hanger.
Lowered hose height so hose doesn’t uplift controller case. But kept height above bottom of gantry.
Extended end brace to help vac/wiring clear the belt.
My solution was to run aluminum flat bar through the hose hanger holes, then velcro the vac hose to that with some bracket made in tinkercad. The flat bar bends over my Y belt to keep it out of the way.
I did have an instance of my hose catching on a belt block that derailed the machine during spoilboard resurfacing.
Had your solution existed, I probably would have given it a try.
I had this same issue with my dust collection hose. Was planning to do something similar to what you’ve done. Will definitely be printing this and trying it out! Thanks!!
Thank you @Frank! Don’t have a 2" version, however the model is somewhat parametric, so… I might be able to create one, either way I’ll upload .step file to printables so anyone interested can modify for themselves/others.
What’s the outside diameter of your 2" hose?
Asking because I’ve noticed hoses with the same declared measurement aren’t the same.
Inside diameter of the hanger is 72mm… So the 2" hose will fit, just won’t be snug
Took me ~hr to tweak, am no Fusion expert, so unlikely to do more variants. Submitted .step files as well so curious folks can tweak more easily for their builds.
Haven’t printed the 2" models, I only eyeballed the new 2" models in Cura/Fusion along side the 2-1/2" models printed and used for my build.
Ok so printed one part.
Apart from my 3D printer defects (I clearly got wet filament as it was a new roll and was popping a bit during the print, so in the dehydrator that roll goes)
There is a clear distinctive line. Anyone else get that issue if anyone else printed it?
My PETG prints were not tuned well, they had bunch of warts (bad retraction/priming?) on the inside wall. The outer surface was smooth, of course what we want is a smooth inside surface, I just sanded down the warts to get smooth enough finish I could live with.
Next time though… I’d look at the slicer preview before printing and maybe tweak z seam corners to help hide retraction/priming issues.
My wart stricken part had “Hide Seam”, maybe “Smart Hiding” would have worked out better?
All good, yeah will sand it down a bit, not to fussed about the “ knife fight scar” now that you called it that, I kinda like it lol
Don’t believe prusaslicer has the setting, sure they would have something similar.
But yeah you could be right about the Z seam, but would of thought it to be straight at least as in the pic.
Seams to be kinda angled.
Here is another pic of it, excuse the “stringy bits” lol
But like I said, not really fussed about it, will be hidden by the tube anyways, plus I got a half pipe angled aluminium to give it more strength across it all so
