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Poor Man's Hydra/Trident - Hydrant?

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Inexpensive substitute for the Zero-G Hydra Mod, for use in addition with the Mercury One.1 conversion.

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The cost of the Hydra Mod is rather large to swallow and, due to some variances in occupation, was a bit much for me at the time of development. Hence, I sought to develop an auto-tramming system similar to the Trident and/or Hydra, with 3 point bed leveling without the use of many if any extra parts. This is the result, and seems to work well enough.

Re-using the components from the original Z drive, and the purchase of a single extra lead screw, we can create a Voron Trident like system, however, this utilizes linear rods and lead screws in the same manner as the majority of consumer printers today.

In addition to this modification I have installed on my build: the Ender 5+ version of the Zero G Mercury One.1, as well as front mounting the X-Rail with slightly extended X-Joints, and the Mad Max Tool Changer modification, I have included some additional items to center the X-gantry rail (it's spaced specifically to my machine [which is 468mm between joints vs 469mm in the model], but is easily modified) in the appropriate folder along with tool head docks for a 54 x 20 mm bolt pattern.

Assembly should be self explanatory from photos in the attached pdf, hoping to improve that as time allows.

BOM - Hardware & purch parts as far as necessary

TBA:
- 3x GE5C
- 17x M5x10 BHCS
- 9x M3x6 BHCS or FHCS
- 6x M3x10 BHCS or SHCS
- 6x M5 Self Aligning ball spring T-nuts
- 10x M3 Heat sets

FLA:
- 6-10 M5x10 BHCS (Mad Max / No Mad Max)
- 6-10 M5 Self Aligning ball spring T-nuts (Mad Max / No Mad Max)
- 0-2 M5x20 w/lock washer from Rod mounts (No Mad Max / Mad Max)
- 3x M3x6 BHCS or FHCS

BLA:
- 4x M5x10 FHCS
- 2x M5x10 BHCS
- 2x M3x10 BHCS
- 2x M3x10 SHCS
- 2x M3 Heat Sets
- 3x M3x6 BHCS or FHCS
- 1x TR8X2 Lead Screw

To Reiterate, Parts to purchase that aren't hardware:
- 1x TR8x2
- 3x GE5C spherical Bearings

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