Showing posts with label extruder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extruder. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 July 2010

Broken bracket breakdown

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Whilst printing a 16th set of Mendel parts, my Mendel printed a bed of brackets with bits missing: - On investigation I found the idler brac...
Monday, 3 May 2010

Plumbstruder

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Brian Reifsnyder asked for volunteers to test his hybrid PEEK and PTFE insulator design, so I used it for the hot part of my Mendel extrude...
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Sunday, 3 January 2010

Extruder broke already

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Well my best attempt at making a reliable extruder again resulted in one that only lasted a few weeks! The brass worm pulley that was push...
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Monday, 21 December 2009

Reliable extruder at last?

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... well only time will tell but I have now fixed all the teething problems on my " no compromise " extruder. The first problem wa...
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009

No compromise extruder

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I have settled on using vitreous enamel resistors embedded in an aluminium block for the heater. I think they are the easiest heater to ma...
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Sunday, 25 October 2009

Worm drive

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I have spent a long time trying to make an extruder that is reliable, performs well and is cheap and easy to make. My last design fits most...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Fast extruder

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I put together my new extruder controller , the worm pulley drive mechanism with the GM17 tiny stepper hack and the stainless steel extrud...
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Monday, 13 April 2009

Dinosaur?

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This may be an evolutionary dead end, with the move to stepper motors and pinch wheels, but I wanted to try a couple of things that have bee...
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Friday, 20 March 2009

Pulling power

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There are a lot of extruder drive methods kicking about at the moment, so I decided to evaluate a few by measuring the amount of force they ...
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