Showing posts with label heater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heater. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Rebore

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My Mendel has been very reliable and consistent running virtually 24/7, but about a week ago, after putting on a new reel of plastic things ...
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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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Saturday, 7 March 2009

Simply better

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I find it very satisfying when making something simpler also makes it better. I tested the simplified heater / nozzle design using the same ...
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Saturday, 17 January 2009

Yet another quick heater hack

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The ideal off the shelf heater would be a cartridge heater but they tend to be at least 1" long, need mains voltage and are very expens...
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Sunday, 11 January 2009

Thermal gradients

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Although my last extruder design seems to work, I am not very happy with it. I don't like the little fan because it is noisy, it isn'...
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Friday, 9 January 2009

Heater in a hurry hack

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The heater in my last design has two layers of Cerastil that take 24 hours each to cure and the bobbin takes some time to machine. Attaching...
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Sunday, 4 January 2009

New year, new extruder?

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The RepRap design has always aimed to be cheap and easy to make from readily available materials. What I desire though is good performance a...
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Do we need nichrome?

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While making a new heater I decided to try using stranded tinned copper tails rather than the solid tinned copper wire I used previously. T...
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Sunday, 21 December 2008

Sticking point

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sid , who is a regular contributor to the RepRap forums, had an idea to get a soldering iron manufacturer to make a heater barrel assembly f...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

J-B Weld Heater

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I ordered some Cerastil H-115 high temperature ceramic glue today but it will not arrive for a few weeks so I made another heater with J-B W...