Hot end assembly

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The airflow system

The stacking height of the fan, heatsink duct, fan duct and the heatsink adds to 40mm, which leaves the 40mm screws too short to connect these parts.

A workaround that was employed was to file away part of the fan body such that a few extra thread turns were exposed to the aluminium cooling block

File:Http://www.reprap.org/wiki/File:Ormerod fan filing.jpg

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