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Motor City 3D Print

Icarus 2 - QIDI X-Max / X-Plus

$340.00 USD
$340.00 USD
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Icarus 2.xis a strong, lightweight and dimensionally accurate one-piece carriage for the QIDI X-Max and X-Plus that was designed focusing on strength and ease of maintenance while keeping it very lightweight.

The items are printed on demand using PC-CF. Therefore, you will receive the most recent stable version of the carriage at order processing. 

Icarus 2 is based on Humebeam's popular Icarus 1.x mod but with a number of key improvements:

  • A universal carriage for all supported printers, regardless of extruder and hotend. Instead, you print a mount for your chosen extruder and hotend that install with just four screws meaning you can quickly swap to another extruder and hotend while still using the same carriage, improved maintenance.
  • Hotend fan upgraded from 4010 to 4020 - improved cooling performance and lower noise level (4010 fan is still supported with optional printed distances).
  • The belt teeth are now on the belt peg and tensioner instead of the actual carriage.
  • Proper belt tensioner for both open and closed (stock) belts. For the stock belt the tensioner is optional but recommended, you can attach the belt peg alone if you like.
  • Support for the new wider Qidi PCB supplied with some printers.
  • Increased blower fan stability.
The whole carriage is very light and only around 70 g depending on infill and filament type used and the extruder and hotend are easily accessible without removing any other parts. Once the carriage is installed, there is no play between the bearings and the carriage.

Using one of the supported Orbiter or Sherpa Mini extruders makes the Icarus printhead very capable and lightweight. This allows for higher print speeds as there is less mass to move around when printing and it will also print flexible filament with ease. 

This means the Icarus printhead is about 250g lighter than stock.

Supported Extruders

  • Orbiter 1.5
  • Orbiter 2.0
  • Sherpa Mini R1
  • LGX Lite
  • BMG extruder

Support Hotends

  • Dragon
  • Dragonfly BMO
  • Dragonfly BMS
  • Rapido K500 HF
  • Mosquito (and clones)
  • V6 (and other hotends with V6 groove mount)
 
Assembly instructions available on Printables (https://www.printables.com/model/130789-icarus-2-qidi-x-max-x-plus-i-mate-carriage-orbiter)

Licensed for sale us to sell by designer Humebeam

The carriage as such was posted for the community under Creative Commons Licence A portion of every order will be donated to the original designer per our commercial agreement.