kefka

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   by kefka 14y ago

   Damn straight I would. I also do casting, and natural PLA has a nice burnoff for it. I also have access to a metal lathe and a few other pieces of heavy equipment. I can make. out of junk and scrap, pretty much anything I want. My next work
2. 1382.▲
   by kefka 14y ago

   I'm already thinking of ways to automate this machine to "print money". Run a fan at the end of the filament guide. Then, attach a mouse recovered wheel encoder to monitor amount of filament extruded. Then make a simple geared wheel that tu
3. 1383.▲
   by kefka 14y ago

   We deal with your type fairly regularly over at hackaday and other discussion sites. The Lyman extruder documents (including BOM and assembly and 3 view drawings) are published for free. The parts are easy to obtain. How are you (the possib
4. 1384.▲
   by kefka 14y ago

   Not really. Just run maybe 50g of new material. You'll end up with blended colors, and then solid color of new material. If you are really deadset on perfect color, you can take it apart and detail clean it. HOWEVER, this is also a way to m
5. 1385.▲
   by kefka 14y ago

   You would require a Bowden extruder to build a pellet-filament engine. There's no way a Mendel I2 or similar models could handle the inertial load on the Y and Z axis. And the video shows rather slow extrusion speed. My printer tip velocity
6. 1386.▲
   by kefka 14y ago

   You can thank Rush Limbaugh politik for the "government death panels" garbage.