5015 Angled Fan Adaptor For Thing: 3433290

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I've been using Tunnelcake's simple 5015 fan adaptor for a while now, and it works amazingly well - even with the MicroSwiss hotend on my Ender 3. But one thing is driving me crazy: Every so often the fan body crashes into the X-Belt mounting screw. When this happens, it has an annoying habit of dislodging the fan away from the duct, thereby reducing or even preventing part cooling airflow. I've been hoping that Tunnelcake would read his comments about the issue and update the design. But it hasn't happened yet. So I got fed up waiting and decided to come up with a temporary solution. I didn't want to mess around reverse engineering the whole stl so that I could modify it (I've mentioned before that my ancient copy of Sketchup 8 - the last PC-based free one :P - refuses to import stl files), so I decided to knock out a small adaptor to reposition the fan instead. It glues into the original design, and allows the fan to be angled over to clear the offending bolt when the X-axis nears the end of its travel. I've been using this mod for a little while now, and it seems to work perfectly, with no adverse effects on airflow. Many thanks to Tunnelcake for his original design. I hope you'll all pop along and give him a like to show appreciation for his work. He's definitely got a fan in me!