Guide Rod Covers with Flags - Remix

Guide Rod Covers with Flags - Remix

This is a remix of...

ELEGOO CENTAURI CARBON Z ROD SHAFT HOLE COVER

...posted by mikemakesthings on October 09, 2025 at...

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7166970

The Elegoo Centauri Carbon printer, and I suspect others of the CoreXY style, has large gaps around the bottom end of the three Z guide rods. The Z belt mechanism and most of the electronics live down there and bits of PLA poop, dropped screws and other foreign objects finding their way into that basement may not be an entirely beneficial thing.

The OP's model printed and fit well, closing the gaps with an easily installed and easily removed set of interlocking half-plugs.

As Murphy observed, however, every solution creates a new problem. I began to notice that the guide rod bushings and housings protrude about 25 mm below the bottom of the bed (see images). When the bed moves all the way down, those protruding bits have to enter the cavities around the guide rods. Having som