A2L: Dual-Head Kit

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One belt. One shuttle. Two mechanically switched toolheads.

  • One X-axis belt

  • One permanent drive shuttle attached to the belt

  • Shuttle mechanically locks to one toolhead at a time

  • When the active head enters its dock, a fixed cam or release pin opens the shuttle latch

  • The dock holds the parked toolhead while the shuttle travels to the opposite side

  • The shuttle locks into the next toolhead, then the dock releases it

  • No independent toolhead movement

Think of a garage door trolley. The shuttle stays attached to the belt, and when the toolhead reaches the dock, cut lever gets pushed to release the latch from the shuttle.

Just a rant for now… but maybe it turns into a project.

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Not sure I see the benefit of two separate heads here… Dual extruders, like on the H2D or X2D, make more sense for a bedslinger.

top weight on bedslinger - more ringing and gantry flex - already spend our mass budget moving the bed. Plus speed... the second head can stay loaded, hot, primed, and staged independently. Dock, swap, go.

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wait till you hear about the A2L max pro

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/dont stare into the abyss too long

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We wanted

No, you wanted.

true... thinking print farms - support material on a workhorse...

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…but why?

Bambu has already developed the H2D toolhead that accomplishes the exact same thing without having to couple and decouple from the x axis drive belt.

Thanks for your great comment - that's a really interesting point of view.

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Budget bedslinger + support-material toolhead - I think there is a market but maybe not. Even induction is slow compared to the competition. Most are moving to IDEX - both toolheads stay hot, loaded, and primed.

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