G8 Lens Holder by KrenbergPrime

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

After printing a G8 lens holder by DOugl I found that the shaft that the lens sat in was a bit too short for my Ortur LM2 20W. Also, I found that it was difficult to thread the lens holder perfectly straight.
I remade the lens holder and increased the lens shaft length to 13 mm. In order to thread the lens holder as straight as I could, I also designed a barrel guide that the lens holder will fit in to.
To thread the lens holder, I bought this M9 x 0.5 mm Pitch Thread Metric HSS Right Hand Tap from amazon.
The barrel guide worked great for me. I was able to thread the lens holder and the new lens has a snug fit. The only other thing I added (forgot to take a pic) was to add a bit of silicon tape to the G8 lens part that screws in to the laser unit.
I'm having trouble finding the type of o-ring that came with my Ortur LM2 20w so I'm just reusing the only 1 I have.
The PLA I'm using is from amazon.
So far, the lens holder is sitting firmly in the laser unit.
it appears that the thumbnail order is not working on thingiverse. The way I had originally lined them up made more sense
Cheers