Frankenstein also known as Frank Enstein is a light weight fanduct for the Ender 3 or similar printers. It adds a 5015 blower fan and is also compatible with a wide range of Hotends and Extruders.
I built the BMS7 version for the Orbiter v2 ince it says that one can be used for the Spider Hotend.
However I had to make some serious modifications in order to make it fit:
the upper of the 2 mounting screw holes is not fitting, needs to be placed more up left (at least on my Ender 3 V2 that is)
the right carriage mounting hole needs to be placed a little more to the right it seems (also maybe related to my Ender 3 V2)
the spider Hotend is too big, the right side where the BL touch can be attached needed to be cut off by 3mm
the fan guide is also much too deep for the Spider, had to cut off like 5mm to make it fit.
The upper issues I could correct by drilling a bit, but the one below could not yet fix easily:
the orbiter sits too far back if used with the spider hotend, around 3-4mm
I have a short PTFE Tube connecting Orbiter and Spider now, but that one is now seriously bent back
The extruder works but I am uncertain if that bent PTFE tube affects performance as also the filament then has to travel that cruved path.
Some other issues (maybe not supported):
I use a CR touch, but the mount is much too high if used with the spider hotend. For now 2 M4 hex nuts used as spacers do the job.
I have a Sunon 5015 fan but the duct is much too tight fitting when the screws are mounted and I broke it easily (not the best way of attaching, maybe that could be enforced? For now I simply glued the whole duct directly to the fan which works fine it seems.
Besides that I really like the FrankEnstein-Duct :)
Hi,
I built the BMS7 version for the Orbiter v2 ince it says that one can be used for the Spider Hotend.
However I had to make some serious modifications in order to make it fit:
The upper issues I could correct by drilling a bit, but the one below could not yet fix easily:
The extruder works but I am uncertain if that bent PTFE tube affects performance as also the filament then has to travel that cruved path.
Some other issues (maybe not supported):
Besides that I really like the FrankEnstein-Duct :)