Solidoodle 4 Print Head Cable Guide

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I'm printing a big object, and my printer's cables are getting in the way. The cable management is terrible - they keep getting dragged across the work surface and caught on the build plate or even the work in progress. It's especially frustrating when it happens 12 hours into a long print. After dealing with this problem for three years, I finally took matters into my own hands and made some much-needed mods to my printer. I replaced all of the carriages with Lawsy's modded carriage, added an X-Motor cable guide, and installed a cooling fan. I also put in a new cable guide for the print head. To make sure everything is working smoothly, I've run the printer enough times to test the cable guide's full travel range and ensure it doesn't bind during operation. However, I still need to lengthen all of the cables, as they're currently too short. The motor bracket mount requires discarding the heat sink on the back of the feed stepper motor - I'm not sure what its purpose is, but the cooling fan will do a better job of keeping the motor cool if it blows directly onto it instead. This motor doesn't get very hot anyway. The endpoint attachment simply slides onto the printer's frame at the back and the wires are fed through the space between the frame and the Y-carriage shaft to keep them away from the Y-carriage shaft. I'll post pictures of my re-wired print head setup.