Carved and Pinned Gantry for The100 v1.1

Gantry carved to remove material and replacing m5 bolts with 5x45mm pins.
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updated December 27, 2023

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In an effort to reduce weight I modified The100 gantry geometry by carving out excess material and replacing m5 bolts with 5x45mm pins.

There are holes that can be used to remove pins if needed.

Print Settings

Designed to be printed with the recommended The100 v1.1 print settings.

  • 0.25 Layer height
  • 0.5 Line width
  • 3 Top layers
  • 3 Bottom layers
  • 3 Walls
  • 25% Infill
  • Grid Infill Pattern

Notes

Moving from bolts to pins is rumored to improve gantry motion by avoiding potential vertical idler movement induced by threads. I haven't noticed a difference, but I'm focused on speed not quality.

Carving was done purely for aesthetics. It doesn't save significant printed part weight and I haven't validated whether it helps or hurts printer tuning.

The biggest weight savings was found by replacing 5x45mm steel pins with 5x45mm carbon pins. I have these in my Voron v2.4 and they've held up extremely well.

  • Old gantries with m5 bolts ~80grams
  • New gantries with 5x45mm carbon pins ~66 grams

 

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Only contains gantry geometry modified to remove material and replace m5 bolts with 5x45mm pins.

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