Tevo Michelangelo Dial Indicator Mount

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Dial indicator holder for Tevo Michelangelo. Leveling the bed of the Tevo Michelangelo can be pain sometimes, if you want all corners at same height, and you have a dial indicator laying around, this mount will make it little easier. Just level the bed the way you usually do and then check back with the dial indicator, to see if all corners are at same height. There is no space to mount the dial indicator to get accurate reading, so there is a little modification needed, you have to drill a hole just behind the Bowden tube entry, this way the needle of the dial indicator will be close as possible to the nozzle. The dial indicator needs to be mounted facing to left side, when I made the first version facing front the PTFE tube was touching the dial indicator and causing inaccurate reading while moving to right side of the bed. When you put the dial indicator on, make sure needle is not lower than nozzle to avoid damage to your dial indicator, you can use a small half round object to keep the need high at the top of the dial indicator. You can leave the mount/holder on the printer. Normal size dial indicators need a extension to reach the bed, you can get these cheap from next links, you need to check what size you need, my 10mm and 0.01mm resolution dial indicator needs a 50mm extension: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/-/32862728484.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/OOTDTY-Extension-Rods-For-Dial-Indicators-Probe-Connecting-Rod-HSS-Accessory-More-Specifications-M2-5-10mm/32862754426.html Here a little demonstration video how it works, the resolution of my dial indicator is 0.01mm so the leveling is pretty equal on every corner, it is almost impossible to have it exact same reading on all corners because of the way bed leveling screws and X axis carriage made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADJCdECoxY DISCLAIMER: If you damage your printer while drilling or using this mount, I won’t take any responsibility.