Anet A8, Tronxy X8 - Hotend Carriage Upgrade to Piezo Bed Leveling

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This is an upgrade to popular cheap Anet A8 or clones like the Tronxy X8. It replaces the hot end Carriage to be able to put in a E3D v6 hot end and to upgrade to the Piezo Auto Bed Leveling option on most boards that support this type of probe to use the nozzle as the probe. It's a work in progress and really just wanted to dust off my old Anet A8 and upgrade it to auto bed level. You will need to upgrade the firmware to enable the bed leveling and have a board that supports it like the MKS Gen L or similar. Parts needed are your mounting screws and for the X belt mounting the best fitting are M3 screws and nuts pretty much everywhere. It mount the new carriage you can just re-use the existing screws. There is a retention screw hole for the Piezo board, but I have found it's not really needed as it's pretty snug in there, but for that extra confidence that it's not going to fall out while printing you can put in a M3 short screw and nut if you want. A lot of parts were inspired from others that I have seen and I pretty much put them together in one neat package just to keep everything together. All the items in this are remixes and inspiration from others and years of looking at designs and improvements made all along the way. The piezo board is from Aliexpress and it's the clone or knockoff from another manufacture and wanted a dedicated mount just for this and not lose 20+mm in height just for a bunch of adapters. **** Screws and Nuts needed **** 3 - 20mm M3 screws for the belt tensioner (Belt_Holder_Body_-_*.stl) 3 - M3 nuts receded into carriage 1 - 30mm M3 socket type screw for the adjuster (Belt_Holder_Tighter.stl) 2 - 25mm M3 screw for fan and E3D V6 mount (E3D_V6_Fan_4040_Mount-3.stl) 2 - M3 Nuts 4 - 14mm M3 Screws to hold completed hotend and fan assembly to the piezo mount and carriage 1 - 8mm M3 screw optional to hold the piezo control board inlace. This should all be assembled on the 3D printer as some screws will not be accessible once all is put into place. If you like it, would be awesome to send me a small tip so that I can continue to develop more items like this.