Prusa MK3S 5.5mm nozzle camera mount

UPDATE 2019-09-03 Added new mount with a screw tightener to keep a camera in place while it gets hot.
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Für MKS3+ Halter ohne screw tight verwenden.
Sonst stößt der Halter beim Leveln an die linke Gewindestange.Mit meiner Billig-Cam kann ich zumindest die Nozzle erkennen und das, was sie tut - ideal für Obico.

For MKS3+ use holder without screw tight. Otherwise the holder will hit the left threaded rod when leveling. With my cheap cam I can at least see the nozzle and what it does - ideal for Obico. (edited)

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Unfortunately the viewing angle was not suitable for my camera. It is a cheap one and advertised as 5.5mm, but I suspect that it is not 5.5 but maybe 3.5 or so.

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Works great. Wish it was a bit more rigid, but I'm hoping to solve that by reprinting with a stronger filament

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Works like a charm

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Thanks for your great Work. Like it

AH!! Now I understand JP powers comments! Good catch! I had to bend it out of the way.

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Hey, just notice you are the long range mavic mini custom drone guy. Thanks for the print. Top cover does not fit well because of filament sensor PCB. I have 7mm so heated up with hot air to fit. I use spare screws from prusa kit. Lucky me. Then i notice I need lots of light! The one on my endoscope just died. Need to figure that one out. The camera angle I think is not bad at all. (edited)

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Using it with a 3.9mm borescope from Aliexpress (with gaffer tape wrapped around the camera to increase it's diameter slightly).

Nicely designed mount. It does not contact my Z axis at all when printing. (edited)

I was using this camera holder for a little while, and while it's pretty decent I did have a problem... that caused a bigger problem.

Since the screw holder is on the left of the camera it scrapes against the Z axis threaded rod when the X axis is all the way to the left. This isn't a big problem but over time it weakened the print at the layers, snapped off during a bring, got caught causing a ~10mm X axis layer shift, etc.

I saw the problem coming but figured the layer adhesion wasn't quite so weak on my print. I'm debating doing a remix with the screw older above the endoscope instead of to the left, but figured I'd mention it here. If you still have the design files it'd probably be easier to do the same if you also see it as a problem?