CR10 / E3D Titan Filament Sensor Arm

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Update 7/29/19: In the first iteration, there is an issue where the filament may not fully compress the switch resulting in the printer reporting a "temp too low" message. Basically, it was missing filament. I updated the design slightly to allow for more compression on the switch to fix this (hopefully). This is a filament sensor mount/housing I designed to work in conjunction with the Petsfang E3D v6 Hotend and Titan Direct Extruder setup, but I am betting it could be used other places. I am using this with my filament mounted on the top of the printer. This mount positions the CR10(s) sensor directly above the E3D Titan extruder input and significantly reduces the "waste" filament at the end of a run. The sensor wire lead can be run along the wire bundle for the thermistor, heating element, fans, etc., but you may need to extend the wire a bit to make this work. This was designed to "slide" between the Titan Extruder requiring only the top 2 bolts to be removed (and the bottom one(s) loosened). It requires M3x16 flathead screws to mount the sensor housing to the arm, and the M3 screws used to mount the extruder to the stepper will probably need to be longer by about 4mm (I used the longer bolts provided by th3dstudio), and you will probably need to adjust the pinion on the stepper. This is my first submit, feedback welcome!