Anet A8 Airflow 360 Inlet

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<font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What's this?</span></font> <font face="Arial"><a href="#">A</a> 360 degree turnable air inlet, so you can decide if you want the cooler air from above or the warmer air coming from the bed below running through your cooling system.</font> <font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Why?</span></font> <font face="Arial">- Reduces fan noise.</font> <font face="Arial">- Keeps particles out of your fan.</font> <font face="Arial">- Sucks only the air from where you want it to the cooler, which can rotate 360 degrees.</font> <font face="Arial">- Adds a new variable for tuning your setup. (Control freaks love this one).</font> <font face="Arial">- Industrial look just looks awesome on your Anet printer :P</font> <font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">How come you made this?</span></font> <font face="Arial">Since the smallest things can have an impact on your prints, and everyone is tweaking all those aspects, I was kind of surprised to only see (a lot) of nozzles for the cooling part of the printer, and no tweaks to make the air intake more efficient.</font> <font face="Arial">So I came up with this Industrial looking, 360 degree turnable Air inlet.</font> <font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Out of the box the cool fan would suck random air into the cooling system from all around him, including the hot air coming straight from the bed, thus making the air to cool with warm.....ehm...that sounds a bit like it needs a tweak :P</span></font> <font face="Arial">I figured if I could make an air inlet that I could turn away from the heatbed, I will suck in more 'cooler' air, and do a overall better job in cooling.</font> <font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">When designing the inlet I thought it would maybe be useful if you could adjust the intake so you could suck in the warm air from the heat bed to maybe aid in printing and cooling some filaments.</span></font> <font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Let me know your experience and findings with the inlet!</span></font> <font face="Arial">If you like my design, please think about a small donation for a nice hot coffee, and for further development as well! Thanks!</font> <font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><a href="#">My Other Thingi's</a></font> - <a href="#">Anet A8 heat bed Anti Stress Connector connector</a> https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2551438 <font face="Arial"></font> <font face="Arial"><a href="#">My Dutch Blog:</a></font> - <a href="#">3DRC Blog pagina</a> http://www.3drc.wordpress.com