UM2+ Lazy Lever

Makes it more comfortable to lift and hold the lever in place

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Description

Disengaging the feeder lever on the Ultimaker2+ can be a bit of a pain, on your fingers mostly. This is a slightly re-designed lever that is longer and has a "jammer" that you can slide into feeder to lock the lever in place so you can feed in or remove filament easily.

A word of warning, your original lever might be glued together. This will make it very difficult to take apart without breaking it. If you do break it you obviously void your warranty.

I suggest printing it solid for strength and I also used CPE+ for some extra heat resistance. You might also want to consider glueing the two halves together. I haven't put a whole lot of print time on mine yet (only 50-60 hours) so I don't know if it'll split apart at the seam.

Update: I've now put a few hundred hours on it, and it's still going strong

Materials and methods

Bearing from original lever

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Mini nina   copyNinaHedge added this to the vjh collection ago
Mini rowiac avatarrowiac added this to the UMO Mods collection ago
85b4744bb777a694a5c3ef23e1e7a318?default=blank&size=40Arayel added this to the Ultimaker 2 collection ago
8107bb62621276b1efb33e0884d612e6?default=blank&size=40jhirschman printed this ago
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Printed on:
ultimaker 3
Result:
I printed it in PETG. I had to file out the pivot hole a little bit to get a smooth rotation, but it's working great!! Thank you for this design -- it got my printer working again!
8107bb62621276b1efb33e0884d612e6?default=blank&size=40jhirschman added this to the 3d Printing Infrastructure collection ago
384eb1dba6ccde385b4684b82db576cc?default=blank&size=40Flyntm commented ago

This is great! Definitely a nice upgrade to my UM3. Well designed!

9ef29c349f91fc33e728ef9307ace5ab?default=blank&size=40Q3Soft added this to the Q3soft collection ago
C6f0193c25723df61ce85f3d894b5300?default=blank&size=40David F. added this to the UM2+ collection ago
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C6b9660b73aca8d3310f437cdd9107ab?default=blank&size=40Xander added this to the UM2+ upgrades collection ago
F5e2568eceb45ad046d74c83aca83bfc?default=blank&size=40Damien Hanser added this to the FEEDERS collection ago
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3bfaff92c540447b677fd1f2b0c09ef5?default=blank&size=40Quim Laurens added this to the UM2 collection ago
Ca9728cd6e765ad8d92b30603db54240?default=blank&size=40Lee1978 added this to the Ultimaker 2+ Parts collection ago
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B41afc770ae7ab5bb46d8b71816eef59?default=blank&size=40JoshCraft3D added this to the Ultimaker Mods collection ago
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C56bb8a7a01df4e38fc1e58135de6d23?default=blank&size=40JustKrys added this to the Things to Print collection ago
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Mini 150609   casual portrait  square Telliria commented ago

Looks excellent, I will try it!

Mini reiner 001 2Reiner Bühl added this to the Ultimaker2 collection ago
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