HydraRaptor

My attempts to make a rapid prototyping machine that I will use to make parts for a machine that will be able to make parts for a copy of itself.

Showing posts with label GM3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GM3. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 October 2009

Toothless

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Irritatingly, whenever I try to make a new extruder using my existing one, it always breaks down forcing me to have to repair it, even thoug...
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Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Fantastic PLAstic

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I have managed to get the GM3 to extrude PLA reliably with the following tweaks: - I locked the clutch as per Solarbotics instructions . I l...
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Monday, 7 April 2008

Locking the Solarbotics GM3 clutch

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All the adverts for the Solarbotics GM3 gearmotor say the clutch can easily be locked but don't say how. I emailed them today and got a ...
Sunday, 6 April 2008

Wear and tear

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Half way thorough my evaluation of PCL the extruder's flexible drive coupling started to break up again. When I moved to ABS that was th...
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Sunday, 30 December 2007

Running repairs

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No sooner than I had fixed my heater, the extruder motor failed! I bodged the heater connection by putting some more solder on it. It's ...
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Saturday, 13 October 2007

GM3 motor suppressor

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I have also been asked for more details on my motor suppression circuit that I first blogged in dc-to-daylight , so here goes :- The Solarb...
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