On Saturday 15 August 2020 09:05:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > Slim chance I might get the rest of the screws I need later today.
I did, almost, get enough screws to put one together & take it for a spin. Screw lengths very critical. Works but the motor only has enough torque to turn it at over 2.5 amps/coil drive. But that will get the motor hot enough to soften the plastic in about 15 minutes so I quit at about 5. Now the 64k$ question is, it is worth building an air cooled shaft extension to isolate these from the motor heat? I'll have to think on that. I've been thru hell with this printer and anything I need is 3-5 weeks away. The whole hot end of it is a pisspoor design, leaking hot plastic out thru the nozzles threads. Or anyplace else. The si sock on it is dragging on the work as its filled up, now that its cooled, with about an eighth of and inch of solidified plastic from the leakage. Its also ripped up from the leaking PLA glueing it to the hot end, and damaging it during removal. The final fix might be a strip of teflon pipe tape on the nozzles threads, but that would have to be done to brand new, clean parts I don't have. > And thats the news from Lake Woebegon. :( 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
