Creality Cr-10 Steel Fan Shroud Modification to Accept 20mm Thick Cooling Fan
screen capture of Fusion360 steel fan shroud with my modifications I purchased a cr-10 V1 printer on Facebook marketplace that I am in the process of upgrading. I would prefer that the printer be relatively quiet, and the stock hot end fans are relatively noisy. There are many 3d printed fan shrouds that others have designed, which are plastic of course. I want something relatively sturdy and resistant to both melting and burning. Furthermore, for this bedslinger type of printer, I am not going to be trying to achieve fast print speeds, I am going to have a direct drive extruder, so the weight of a sheet metal shroud at the hot end and larger cooling fan will not make a major change in weight. I want to make parts as strong as possible and there is some evidence that printing too fast may result in decreased layer adhesion resulting in weaker parts. The original CR-10 fan shroud has a 40mm wide, 10mm thick fan directed at the cooling zone heat sink, I am not certain what cfm i
