{"id":30,"date":"2024-04-15T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/?p=30"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:33:09","slug":"mods-that-i-found-useful-when-using-the-neptune-4-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/mods-that-i-found-useful-when-using-the-neptune-4-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Mods that I found useful when using the Neptune 4 Max"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the first mods I made to the N4M is adding X and Y locks which help keep the correct tension on pulleys. They some times do them to loosen after normal use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the X and Y locks I used here by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/SebastianRubner\">SebastianRubner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:6130503\/files\">https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:6130503\/files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next upgrade I recommend is to new shroud + new fans that reduces dramatically the fan noise on the stock extruder. The one I used was designed by Orzorzorz. This has made a big difference in noise as I have the printer next to my desk at the moment and when the stock fans turns on, it sounds like a window turbine. It is so much quieter now. This is a must, IMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/711424\">https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/711424<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For quiter and smoother movement I switch to linear rails provided by tbstrong3d which can be found here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-embed wp-block-embed-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/strong3d.myshopify.com\/collections\/elegoo-linear-rail\">ELEGOO Upgrade Kit<\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/strong3d.myshopify.com\/collections\/elegoo-linear-rail\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/strong3d.myshopify.com\/collections\/elegoo-linear-rail\">https:\/\/strong3d.myshopify.com\/collections\/elegoo-linear-rail<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For vibration I installed dampers designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/@DigitalTeacher\">Digitale Lehrerin<\/a> which can be found at the link below and has worked great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/406908\">https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/406908<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first mods I made to the N4M is adding X and Y locks which help keep the correct tension on pulleys. They some times do them to loosen after normal use. You can find the X and Y locks I used here by SebastianRubner https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:6130503\/files The next upgrade I recommend is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbitshub.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}