On Wednesday 22 July 2020 03:34:01 Chris Albertson wrote: > Gene, > > There about many settings in Cura for supports. You can waste tons of > time and plastic experimenting or just use a pair of needle-nose > pliers and pull it off as you did.
Except I don't own any needle-nosed pliers. I was introduced to suture clamps in 1961 while building Titan 1's up in South Dakota. Never looked back. If I am wearing a shirt, there's usually a curved nose version clipped to the collar. Or 2 of them. > The best fix is to get a second extruder on the printer and load it > with water-soluble filament and print support with that. Then dunk > the part in water. But this at least doubles the price of the printer Not something the ender-3 has room for. So I'm stuck useing the tools at hand. Since the base of the flexgear has 6 driving holes for bolts that drive its output flange, I am tempted to drill a long stick in the bolt pattern, put screws into it to engage those holes and twist it out in one piece. Two problems remain, one being that I think the motor mount it makes is for a nema-23 and what I have are 17's, but small 23's are cheap, and looking at the bearing bar, the shaft hole isn't fitted with a shaft grabber of any kind. Might have to cobble up a taper-lock to fit whatever motor I use. Smaller than what I made for converting TLM. The last thing, and biggest, is the housing and end cap. Over 3 days to render each pair of parts. By then I'm sure I will have opened the 2nd spool of PLA I ordered with the printer. > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:17 PM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > And had a hell of a time removing the internal supports, which > > probably out-weigh the gear, digging it out about 1/4" at a time > > until I was able to actually get a grip on the edge, at which time > > the last half of it popped right out in one piece, clean as a > > whistle. But it seems like there ought to be a way to pop it all > > out in one piece as opposed to a couple hours work with a miniature > > back hoe in the form of the e. tech's ever present 5" flush cutters. > > Looks good, meshes well and walks around the ring gear like it > > should. 2nd one building, be done around a late dinner time tonight > > as its an 18+ hour job. Don't know if theres enough PLA on that > > spool for 3 of them. With all the support structure it uses a lot of > > PLA. Cura estimates it but I've forgotten now. > > > > But is there a support removal tool that isn't radioactive? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > > respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
