On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 2:02 PM Thaddeus Waldner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would suggest that you calibrate the xy shrinkage, and z shrinkage in
> your printer slicer, instead of compensating for it in your design.
>

Yes, then you can rotate the part 90 degress and it still prints
accurately.   I just ran into this here.  I rotated the part and now the
dimensions are different.  I think belt tension does it, not shrinkage.
The tight belt has a different tooth pitch.  0.5% over 200mm is 1mm.   I
might buy some kevlar belt.

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> > On Mar 25, 2022, at 3:29 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > It has come to my attention that one of the potential failures in my
> > harmonic drive with a loose belt experimentation, which seems to be
> > caused by the unequal shrinkage in the xy direction as opposed to the z
> > direction is at least partially caused by the nozzle diameter. If I
> > attempt to achieve a zero clearance bearing simply by shrinking the
> dummy
> > ball from about .5mm bigger than the bearing, as it shrinks, the wider
> > edges of the bearing groove come into zero or a slight preload
> condition,
> > leading eventually to a race fatigue split at the center of the races
> > width. Working in openscad, a scale command would fix this by shrinking
> > the bb shape used for clearing that groove, only in the x direction.
> >
> > Th question is how much would it take to transfer the majority of the
> > stresses on the race from being on the outer edges of the race, to be
> > more concentrated on the center of the race, with an eye toward reducing
> > the splitting force on the bearing race.
> >
> > 1% x shrink, 2%, 3%, what would be the ideal amount of shrink to
> > compensate for the printers .4mm nozzle, being used to only lay .12mm
> per
> > layer?
> >
> > Seems to me there ought to be a way to mathematically predict how much
> > that shrinkage diff there is. Attached, an extra 2 lines to draw that
> > away from the bearing itself, showing how little the difference is for a
> > .97 x shrink.
> >
> > Comments plz?
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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