Ratrig V-Core 3 Open Top XY Motors

I think this may be the best of all worlds in terms of ease of accessibility, maintenance, performance, noise, and motor shaft support. This idea really comes from several mods that have been thrown around the community for some time now. D Jesperson, Daniel Wiehlputz, WiggyWooSaa, BRS, the FMMM, Necro David, the list goes on.

After doing my Enclosure 2.0 with the open front mod i did a while back, I decided to use D Jespersons stepper decouplers (Motor Decouple-Damper by DJ_Designs | Download free STL model | Printables.com) instead of the one's with the original model because they had more room to get to the decoupler. The first one i put together with the smaller decouplers, I had trouble getting everything bolted together. Another nice thing about DJ's design is it has heat inserts that go in from the bottom, and also uses 2 bearings below to support the shaft. at that point, i figure there's not much point in the 3rd bearing on the top, you're essentially doing the same thing as the people running that mod in stock motor cages, so why not get rid of it all together? I'll be putting another 500 together soon, i'll update with results.