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A request was made for this after someone spotted it in one of my threads. I've finally gotten around to modifyingit to be a better state that should fit nicely (albeit very tightly).
Guides filament through the hole in the rear of the machine and safely past the Z rods and Z screw. Originally my filament was brushing past these and collecting grease on the way to the hot end.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:85707
Thanks Lawsy,
Already on the table!
Just a quick question, my sd3 has arrived with the head cables in the filament hole as shown in my photo do u think this is something new? I thought it looked like the obvious place for my filament to go through but was worried it would get trapped by the wires?
Cheers
All SD3's come with the cables through the center hole - it reduces the binding of the cables against the y-axis.
So you can't use lawsy's mod.
I never got a clear answer on whether Solidoodle expects us to even run the filament through that hole in the SD3, but I found that running it over the top of the frame, rather than through the hole, makes it easier to feed and less likely to bind up. The only downside is you can't easily keep an enclosure top in place, but with a glass bed, I don't need the top enclosure during printing anyway, only during the pre-printing heat-up stage. So ultimately, the SD3 just doesn't need something like this.
Ok thanks well it printed well anyway!
Incidentally what temp do u run your bed at with glass and hairspray?
Thanks for posting this up.
lawsy, can you share the SKP file? There's an SKP in the Thingiverse posting but it's not the same object. I was looking to extend it for MolecularSavage, but I can't import the STL (and importing STLs rarely produces usable starting points for remixes anyway).
Solidoodle definitely needs to update the beginners guide, because when I unboxed the printer I carefully followed the instructions that said to feed the filament through the centered hole... Only to find that the rubber ring increased friction so much that the extruder was sliding off during the job... I still have my first print, a deformed sheep 
Take a look at my guide I just posted to Thingiverse, designed for the SD3.
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