Glass Retainer for Anet A8 when using Auto Leveler

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For those that want to have a glass bed, an auto leveler, and not have paper clips on your Anet A8 bed, this is what you need! Quick and easy print, depending on your settings, all 8 pieces could probably be printed in less than an hour. Because I have my settings a little slower, it took just about 3 hours to make and I was really happy with the results. When running the G29 Gcode command for the auto leveler to probe the bed, the clamps stay out of the way and don't cause interference. The only kind of difficult part (for me anyways) is finding all the screws you need. You'll need a total of 12 M3 screws since each little retainer assembly takes 3 screws; one to secure the heating bed to the slider and 2 to clamp the glass to the heating bed. I was able to scavenge enough screws left over from my Anet a8 build. I'm not entirely sure, but I think you'll need 4 25mm long M3 screws and 8 30mm long M3 screws plus all the nuts. I did find that lock nuts will stay on better than regular M3 nuts because of all the motion and vibration. In the images, you'll see my auto leveler proximity sensor and the bed support it came with that I modeled my retainers off of. Lastly, I did have to file down a tiny, tiny amount from my printer frame so just one bolt in the back would clear when the bed is at the 0 Y position.