Re: [Emc-users] filament feed, was Re: Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-17 Thread Ed Nisley
On 06/16/2013 01:24 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Coyote being the handle I'd been using since about 1962. Ah, now, were you kye-OH-tee or COY-ote? I have an amateur radio in the van, but discovered I don't have enough brainpower to drive and talk at the same time. Heck, I can barely drive and

Re: [Emc-users] filament feed, was Re: Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 June 2013 08:50:44 Ed Nisley did opine: On 06/16/2013 01:24 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Coyote being the handle I'd been using since about 1962. Ah, now, were you kye-OH-tee or COY-ote? I pronounced it like we did in the S.D. hills, Ky-yot with a long o. I have an amateur radio

[Emc-users] filament feed, was Re: Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/16/2013 6:57 AM, Ed Nisley wrote: On 06/16/2013 04:24 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: current printer implementations just drag the spool with the filament feed capstan It's brutally simple: the filament drive hauls filament through a flexible tube that arches between a holder at the

Re: [Emc-users] filament feed, was Re: Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/16/2013 7:02 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: -Does relocating the filament spool above the printer to straighten out the filament path help? I notice some people do this and others don't. Yes. I was going to post the feed tube was not brutally

Re: [Emc-users] filament feed, was Re: Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Nisley
On 06/16/2013 08:02 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: relocating the filament spool above the printer The ones I've seen align the spool axis with Y axis, with the filament unrolling from the top toward the center of the printer along the X axis. I think that's a good non-powered approach that shouldn't

Re: [Emc-users] filament feed, was Re: Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 June 2013 12:58:45 Ed Nisley did opine: On 06/16/2013 08:02 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: relocating the filament spool above the printer The ones I've seen align the spool axis with Y axis, with the filament unrolling from the top toward the center of the printer along the X axis.