Stock Ender 3/CR10 hotend mount/adaptor for CR10-V2/V3

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After much frustration and perseverance, I decided to ditch Creality's poor attempt at cloning an E3D V3 hotend, and the terribly unfriendly housing that is a PITA if you need to access the hotend. Using a fantastic <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4657309">model</a> created by <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/siganberg"> Siganberg </a> I have adapted it to fit the carriage mounting points of the CR10-V2/V3, (and tweaked the internals somewhat) to allow you to use a standard Creality hotend (found on the Ender 3/Ender 5/Older CR10 variants) on the CR10-V2/V3, whilst using stock fans/front section of the stock housing. This design requires a few additional fixings: - 2 x 16mm or 18mm M3 screws for mounting the hotend to the rear housing. - 2 x M3 nuts that are recessed into the rear housing. - 3 x M3 threaded inserts (pressed/melted into place in the three holes provided for attaching to the carriage assembly on the X-axis. Either use a soldering iron to heat the insert, or pliers and a flame) - 3 x 6mm M3 screws for mounting housing to the carriage assembly. Both fans use stock screws and are what hold the two halves of the housing together.