Ender 5 bed supports (The Original "Super Struts")

Update: 3/15/20 - (PLA) Material Warning!

Due to a number of reports from users who have printed their struts out of PLA having issues with cracking.. I dug in and did a bunch of testing, using various brands and colors of PLA.

After MANY hours of testing (due to only having 1 working printer right now), I was able to conclude that YES, the strength and durability of this design will vary greatly from one PLA brand (and color) to another, and many of the sample prints that I made out of PLA during my test were, in my opinion, not strong enough for this design!

Initially, I had intended on publishing the results of each PLA I tested, but after a lot of deliberation I decided that it wouldn't be fair to the PLA manufacturers to post data that shows MY results, printing this one particular design.. when your results could vary greatly.

Also, there are a lot of new people who are just begining this hobby who buy a new Ender 5 and come here to print their first upgrades, and I don't want to scare them away from particular brands of PLA, just because my data show that it performed poorly for me, when printing this one design!

My results DID conflict with reported results from users for several brands/colors of PLA, leading me to the conclusion that there are just TOO many variables to be able to fault or favor particular brands of PLA for use with this design.

So.. In order to prevent users (especially new users) from spending hours printing this design out…