A soft reboot of Xol 2 (https://github.com/Armchair-Engineering/Mantis-Xol) aimed at modularity and quality of life improvements for installation and serviceability. We have left the mantis carriage behind, and thus are now just Xol sans Mantis. Don't worry, it's still ugly, we couldn't fix that.
Project lead: DW-Tas
Xol-Toolhead Release 2023-12-21
- Quality of life improvements
- Cable routing holes are now on both sides of the toolhead
- Cable routing holes can now fit MF3.0 commonly used on hotends
- Awkward M3 Heatset insert replaced with easier to install M3 hex nut for front extruder mount connection
- Rapido hotend mounting points rotated to improve wire routing
- Minimal BOM change
- 1x M3 Hex Nut replaces 1x M3 Heatset Insert
- 1x M3x6 BHCS replaces 1x M3x8 BHCS
- Reworked Extruder mount to Hotend mount interface
- Old Hotend mounts will not work with new Extruder mounts and vice-versa
Xol-Toolhead Release 2023-09-15
- Modular approach to hotend mounts and extruders
- Hotend mounts and extruder mounts are now separate parts
- Extruder mounts incorporate the old Xol-Carriage or TAP adapter plates (same number of printed parts overall)
- "Xol with bones" option: Add some screws for extra rigidity in the hotend mount
- Minimal BOM change
- 1x M3x8 BHCS
- 1x M3 Heatset
- Optional "bones"
- 2x M2x30 SHCS
- 2x M2 Heatset
- Xol-Carriage update
- Stronger belt clips
- bigger probe cable channel with cable tie slot
Xol-Toolhead Release 2023-07-14
- Standardised hotend mounts around the Voron Design CW2/TAP carriage bolt hole pattern.
- This approach reduces the number of hotend mounts and ducts by half - You don't have to search for TAP or non-TAP and we don't have to maintain twice as many parts
- Xol-Carriage
- A new carriage built for Xol-Toolhead
- Uses metal pins and a belt clip to secure the belts instead of having them squashed between mgn9/12 carriage and toolhead carriage
- Improved serviceability - remove the toolhead from the carriage without disassembly in the printer. Unless you use Voron TAP or refuse to buy M2.5 hardware for Xol Carriage. Buy the m2.5 hardware, it's worth it trust us.
- Modular probe mounting system - change probes without changing the whole carriage
*Except for KlickyNG
- These carriage changes mean you can use any carriage that a Stealthburner bolts onto. (Our Xol-Carriage, or the stock voron carriage even.)
- Rapido
- DropEffect XG
- DropEffect NeXt-G
- Red Lizard K1-UHF
- Dragon UHF/Mini
- Dragon ST/HF
- Dragon Ace
- Revo Voron
- NF-Crazy (*without duct LEDs)
- Sherpa Mini
- Annex Double Folded Ascender
- Galileo G2SA
- WristWatch G2
- WristWatch BMG
- Escapement
- Vz-Hextrudort-Low
- LGX-Lite
- Orbiter v2.0
- PCB Klicky
- Klicky
- KlickyNG
- Beacon
- Euclid
- Voron Design TAP
For RC8+ we suggest to use m3x50 BHCS instead of SHCS
- MGN12H - 6mm Belts
- MGN9H - 6mm Belts
- MGN9H - 9mm Belts
Xol-Toolhead can colide with the stock voron front idlers for Trident and 2.4 when the toolhead is in the front corners of the build area. This can cause also issues with the homing sequence when homing X if the toolhead is at the front of the gantry on Y.
Fully compatible idlers:
- clee's BFI (Beefy Front Idlers)
- Ramalama2's Front Idlers
They took ages to make, please read them.
- DW-Tas for giving Xol the giant refresh it needed.
- CorvidBuilds for Xol1 and Xol2, the predecessors to this project.
- Long/Mandryd for the Mantis toolhead.
- Derpimus for the exegesis, some CAD work, feedback, and just being a rad dude.
- KayosMaker for the CAN board mounts and spacers.
- JosAr for Klicky.
- WhoppingPochard and VinnyCordeiro for PCB Klicky.
- Nionio6915 for Euclid.
- VoronDesign for this particular CoreXY flavor.
- AnnexEngineering for the Sherpa Mini and Double Folded Ascender extruders, and the K3 that influenced the air management of the ducts. And also for giving access to an early revision of the DFA so it could be adapted for this toolhead.
- clee, you know what you did.
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