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  • MPCNC: Pen Holder Crunch

    A few tweaks to the Customizable MPCNC Mount for Round Tools produces a Sakura Micron pen holder:

    MPCNC - Sakura Pen Holder - Slic3r preview
    MPCNC – Sakura Pen Holder – Slic3r preview

    The pen body seats atop the holder, with its narrower snout inside the clamp, giving positive control of the point position:

    MPCNC - Sakura in pen adapter
    MPCNC – Sakura in pen adapter

    Unfortunately, should one forget to zero the pen tip to the paper surface before starting a plot, Bad Things happen to good tips:

    MPCNC - Sakura pen - crushed tip
    MPCNC – Sakura pen – crushed tip

    The holder really needs at least a few millimeters of compliance, as a fiber-tip pen makes a fairly delicate tool not intended for applying much force at all to anything.

    But the holder might make a Z axis probe …