CR-10 Y-axis purchased drag chain with solid bed mount

Steven Fayer's CR-10 Y-axis drag chain changed to work with a purchased 10x15mm R18 chain along with solid bed mounts
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After upgrading my CR-10S to use kevinakasam's Belted Z mod, I wanted to reprint my drag chain to color match.   Before the Belted Z mod I had printed it in PLA and it was great.  However, I printed it in ABS and I kept having trouble with it staying connected (extra wires for calibrate z mod).  

I modified it to work with a purchased 10x15mm R18 drag chain from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09579CTBG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This also wraps around TH3D's old solid bed mounts.  It would need to be modded to work with the original springs.

combo_YZ_bracket_v7: Use the brackets that came with the cable chain along with heatset inserts with some short screws.

combo_YZ_bracket_v7_short: I'm using this since I'm not using chain on the Z-axis.  It gives me something to zip tie my wires to that go to X and to the hotend in order to keep them from flopping around.

combo_YZ_bracket_v5: retired - link broke too easily when trying to insert the chain.

 

Revisions:

  • 2024-06-02
    • Changed the combo_YZ_bracket to use heatset inserts with the bracket that comes with the chains.  
    • Added a short version just in case you don't really use the Z-Chain (I wanted to still make sure that everything printed correctly so I just shortened the height by 100mm).

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The author remixed this model.

Creality CR-10 Y axis cable drag chain
by stevenfayers (thingiverse.com)
 

Differences of the remix compared to the original

  1. Changed the bed_end_v4.stl
    • Works with a 10x15mm R18 Drag Chain.
    • Made to wrap around a 22mm solid bed mount (old version of th3d's solid bed mounts).
    • Cleaned up some internal geometry.
  2. Changed the combo_YZ-bracket.stl
    1. Y-Axis Works with a 10x15mm R18 Drag Chain.
    2. Z-Axis is unchanged and works with the printed Z-axis drag chain.
  3. Revised combo_YZ-bracket again to utilize the cable chain end brackets and attach using heatset inserts.

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