K40 Height Adjust

For those of us who cut a hole in the bottom of their K40 laser to fit a rotary tool, this may be useful to change the height of the laser. These legs replace the castor wheels which are a hazard anyway.

Legs let you change the height of the laser by turning the sleeve sections.

The thread is 2.5mm pitch so one turn will change the height by 5mm. The sleeve has 10 flutes so one flute of turn will change the height 0.5mm. One of the flutes has a reference mark, you may want to write on the others, 0 to 5mm in 0.5mm steps or every second one for 1mm steps

The post should be firmly fastened to the laser body to prevent it turning when you adjust the sleeve. I used 3 line count for the shell and 45% infill. Uses 15g/5m of material taking almost 2 hours to print. Screw a 3/8-16 stud into the centre of the top section. It has a recess for a nut and you can tighten the steel nut down onto it, I cut about 50mm sections from a threaded bar. All 4 of the threaded top sections took abo