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 kapton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kapton. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 March 2010

Heated bed MK3

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My first heated bed worked OK but it was slow to warm up and hard to remove objects. The second one was only ever intended for experimenting...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010

Suck it and see

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The magnetic steel and polyimide tape bed works very well for manual operation but I am pursuing the vacuum bed idea for fully automated pr...
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Sunday, 31 January 2010

Quick release bed

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I am in the process of making a heated vacuum table to hopefully allow automatic ejection of finished objects. In a conversation with Laszlo...
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Saturday, 23 January 2010

Will it stick?

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ABS sticks very well to hot Kapton , so I wondered what else would stick to it. The first thing to try was PLA. This sticks pretty well to c...
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Sunday, 10 January 2010

Golden wonder

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My first attempt at extruding ABS onto hot Kapton had " all the stops pulled out " to make it stick, i.e. 120°C bed, nozzle heigh...
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Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Hot metal and serendipity

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I couldn't get to work today because we had seven inches of snow during the night and a couple more today, so I had an extra day of RepR...
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