Flying Bear Tornado Magnetic V6 Hotend Mount

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This is my design for a magnetic hotend assembly for the Flying Bear Tornado 3D printer. The stock hotend on the Tornado is pretty junky, being a cheap kit as it is. I tossed that before even plugging it in and got to work designing my own. I've had a number of 3D printers, and experience has taught me that easy access to the hotend is crucial. I've had frustrating times with different printers, where I had to disassemble more than I'd like, than needed, just to service the hotend. My design tackles this problem aggressively. It's an open design for easy access and viewing, and the magnetic base makes it even easier since you can remove the whole assembly and work on it away from the printer altogether. The magnetic base also adds the advantage of easily swapping the hotend assembly. I plan to make a Volcano variant, and a Chimera variant. Swapping in a volcano as being useful in particular. This design adds a part cooling fan, and moves the X endstop from the side of the H-carriage onto the hotend assembly, like it usually is with normal printers. There's a screw on endstop bump included, for putting on the frame where the endstop originally went. The magnets are round disc magnets, sized 10x2mm. The magnets should be press fit (they were for me). The fan for the hotend heatsink is a 40x40mm, and the turbo blower is a 50x50x15mm.