Ender 3 BL Touch Cover Plate Clearance Mods

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On your journey to make your Ender 3 go pro you may run into a clearance issue after installing a BL Touch. If you find that the motherboard cover will no longer fit after plugging everything in, these files may help you. To fix this I thought about buying a different plug, but I had already paid for the kit and wanted to use the one supplied. So, at first I made a whole new MB cover plate with nifty snap in fittings but I didn't want to stow away the original MB cover plate unused. So for the brave, you can do what I did, take a hole saw to the cover. I have the benefit of having a workshop, so doing it this way was fine for me. If you don't want to go this route, there are other spacers you can print on Thingiverse that will give you the clearance but you will need longer screws. Both of the the types of fixes I've supplied here use all the original screws. There's the full plate, and then there's the choppy-choppy route with inserts and all that jazz. The metal plate insert files are the fan shroud (which is used in both approaches), a mounting bracket, and a nifty little (totally unnecessary) snap ring that goes between the fan and the cover plate gripping onto the shroud bottom plate. There's also a cover for the old fan vent exhaust port, its split in two so that it can be printed in two haves. Depending on if and where you cut your hole youll have to snip a bit of it off to make it fit. Everything is made to be printed flat surfaces down with no need for supports. Just glue 'em together and enjoy. Cheers