Good day everyone!

This is in regards to a forum thread for Snapmaker 2 https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/3dp-part-cooling-fan-5015-replacement/10038/93

It's time to unveil my contribution to the blower mod upgrade!

Starting with Brent's printed mod, the blower itself, the diode, the double sided tape and the pack of connectors with wire leads, I completed the work as indicated above with success.

I have now taken this a little bit further.

In order to get the wires inside of the print head neatly, while also allowing room for the connector and excess wire, I have created a replacement side plate for the module.

Keep in mind, I have done very little modeling and was really struggling with using fusion360 (interface is very unintuitive and at some point they just stop letting you edit the shape without starting over) so the radius of the corners is not an exact match, but first lets take a look at the original vs my new one:

Seemingly quite similar, grill holes, screw holes, general shape all present.

However, the depth is a bit different - there is an outer flange to space the OD of the new bracket out to allow room for the connector to fit above the circuit board, and theres also a notch for the wires to feed through!

So what you will want to do is find some quite thin filter medium as the original has. In my case, what was readily available was a coffee filter. I cut this to size with some scissors

Added a small number of drops of super glue to the bracket around the grill in order to place the fix the filter medium to the bracket

Next, I took the connector coming out of the Y splitter and connected to to the blower, and simply folded the wires up in such a way that the lid would fit on top.

Using the existing screws, I placed the new top on (feeding the wires through the notch) and fastened it into place

The holes are counter sunk deeper to accommodate the extra thickness of the material, and on a 2nd revision i opened them up a hair to make it easier to insert the screws.

From there, complete the installation as intended with the double sided tape, and you are good to go!