AMS Lite Top Mount Screw Latch Modification

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AMS Lite Top Mount Screw Latch Modification

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
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I installed the AMS Lite Top Mount onto my A1, and like many others, felt the latch was less than confidence inspiring. I noticed the standard print profile created an extra screw, so put the pieces into tinkercad and copied the existing internal threads from the upper half into the lowerhalf and made a hole in the latch for that extra screw, adding a small peace of mind assurance that the latch will hold. Probably not necessary, but if it's something you would want, here it is. :)

 

While I was installing these modified pieces, the original extra printed screw broke. Bambu has a negative part added to the original printed screws to force them to be hollow. I removed that hollow, and reprinted the screw at .20 strong, with 5 walls. I also added some flats to improve the horizontal printing that results in a significantly increase strength. I added two to the latch mount plate and have the .stl file in downloads too incase you also want to print an unreasonably strong screw for a probably unnecessarily reinforced connection.

 

Simply print these new pieces, and use the existing metal hardware screws to attach the new lower half to the new latch together, snap onto your top bar in place of the original pieces, and use the printed screw to ensure the latch doesn't come open on it's own, even though it probably wouldn't happen anyway, but now you're maybe more sure it won't.

 

Enjoy.

 

UPDATE: 25/02/12- Re-uploaded the 3.mf file with improved supports, added strength, and added two improved screws to the plate.

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Unfortunately one of the “stronger” screws failed on me when putting a tiny little pressure. See picture.
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you will want to change the print orientation to avoid the failure at layer lines like that. I printed at an angle
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Replying to @MillCasaMakes :
Thanks for the tip! Would printing the screw flat (as opposed to vertical) solve the issue based on your experience, or does it have to at an angle ?
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Replying to @Witschey :
this guy does a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiQek0wei1g TLDR: horizontal is best for strength
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Awesome adjustment. Thanks for making this change! This should be part of the standard bracket. Also printed your modified screws and they feel more solid. I am a lot more confident that the AMS won’t collapse.
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looks great!
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I repurposed your clamp because it was the best of the bunch for robustness and ease of use - I hope you don't mind. LOL - I needed a way to mount my swing-arm lamp over the printer without it hitting the print head after a tall print. I used 30% infill, removed the post in the slicer, and drilled a 1/2" hole in the top. Works great!
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nice! I recently improved the strength, especially the screws. glad it worked out for you
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Perfekt!!
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wish saw it earlier
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I was thinking about getting the top mount but really worried about that clamp and did see reports of that coming apart after a few months and falling down onto the A1 causing damage. This would make it feel much more safer to me and would actually give it a try! Your print description says you included a new screw but there is no file for it. Can you upload that as well? Thanks!
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The screw file is under the "Download STL/CAD Files" It's the one labeled "AMS+Lite+Top+Mount-Strong Screw.3mf"
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Just in case anyone else prints these parts in PETG instead of PLA, they might want to swap to tree supports for the M3 screw inserts. The top one didn't have quite enough support for me with the standard supports resulting in a messy overhang which ruined the snap fit (Not the designer's fault though, thanks for the more secure version)
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Thanks for the information! Yeah, I just kept the supports the same as used in the the original Bambu profile. What brand of PETG did you use?
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Replying to @MillCasaMakes :
I used Bambu Lab's black PETG-HF with stock settings except I had "Don't slow down outer walls" checked in Orca Slicer. Tree supports with the threshold set to 20 and "Top Interface Spacing" set to 0mm worked for a clean result though
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Replying to @Zelraithe :
nice. thanks for sharing this for others.
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Awesome work! I love it! i printed it with 5 wall count and 45% honeycomb infill. Very very strong!
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Nice! Sounds Strong 💪
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this is amazing its just wat you need for peace of mind but i twisted the head off bolt and then ended up printing 100% fill
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Same, that's why I made the 100% fill. I'm not sure why the bambu one had a forced hollow center...
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Works great, feels much safer.
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glad to hear it works for you!
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