Anycubic Predator Effector mod / Extruder mount

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Since I am actually revamping my whole predator, I needed a plate between the extruder and the print head ( see image attached, the extruder hangs low over the print head without putting weight on it, but isn't swinging that hard anymore. Some additional rubber bands help taking away the vibrations, which are then led to the chassis, which again sits on rubber balls in a fitting. The result of this dampening is pretty darn crazy. I also disassembled the print head, moved the metal plate up ( so it won't cool down the head as it does with the original conf ). Wrapped the coldend with some copper wire for better heat transportation, cut the pipe that goes into the coldend so I could lower the extruder way down to the printhead. Added also some TL smoothers. Prior to all these changes, I couldn't get many successful prints, since a lot of heat issues, clogged nozzles etc were the norm. Now, even with 0.2mm layers, prints look fine and very smooth. ( See pics ). Ghosting on the test cubes has vanished greatly as well. So this plate will be printed as TPU version, since I will screw it down to this plate, but at the same time keep the springs, this should reduce the rattling of the extruder even further, without putting additional weight on the head. One side of the plate has some bumpers to absorb shocks, the other holds threads in M6x1 - many of em so you can mount your extruder in any kind of position.