Hephestos 2 - Z Rod Upper Bearing

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A welcome upgrade or rather a downgrade for your Hephestos 2 Printer. If noisy Z RODS (usually M5 threaded rods) are causing problems due to excessive wobble, this upgrade can help reduce or eliminate the issue. Important note: read below before complaining! You'll lose building space in the Z-Axis with this upgrade. Having upper bearing rods often results in reduced print quality on many printers, especially without an anti-wobble nut mechanism. The threaded rod wobble is usually compensated by air when there are no upper bearings. However, since the Hephestos 2 has fully supported linear rails, the X-Axis stays in place, but this isn't the best solution. To be honest, I used these rods for about two weeks before switching to TR8x1.5 trapezoidal threaded rods. There's little room to pass through the Z rod nut mount part on the Hephestos 2, and in my case, there's even no friction between them. EDIT 1: I just realized that the main part of the actual picture is a different version than the uploaded STL files. I couldn't find it anymore in my F360 cloud; maybe it's somewhere in the STL folder (need to check). But it was just a slightly different version designed to fit if you have my Hephestos 2 Reinforcement Structure installed, available at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2510575. EDIT 2: I found them and uploaded them as well. It's just a little lighter at the top. Only necessary when you have already installed the Reinforcement Structure and too lazy to remove.