E3Dv6 on Solidoodle Press (Page 5 of 21)

Yes, there will be a kit. Just waiting for MacGyverX to finalize things.

Have you found an improvement in quality between the bowden and direct drive setup? I'm honestly okay with either setup but I feel like the direct drive may be a better option as I would rather not make any damaging modifications to my printer like drilling holes and such.

Really? I used RH to reposition the STL and resave late last night.
I just reopened all the STL's again, they all opened and sliced correctly.

Maybe cause I am using an older ver. of RH? I'll change the orientation in fusion is and upload those.

I'm not familiar with using github, but "save as" on the stl file did NOT download the stl.  You get like a 27Kb file.  I had to get the Github for windows software.  Once I got those, modeled seemed fine and I printed them all off this morning.  I found an 11mm spring that's a little too big.  I think a 10mm would be perfect.  I just need to source my screws.   I'm also curious between the print quality of the bowden vs direct.

github is awesome. I was pleasantly surprised when you used it. Folks probably don't realize you have to right click save as on RAW to get the actual file.

What spring did you use? The spring coefficient and length are probably important.

elmoret- The spring I used came from a 5$ variety pack from Home Depot. I'll yank it out and measure it later.

Dream-Cypher- After shedding the weight of the stepper on the gantry, I changed some of the accel. values in the firmware. That includes bed leveling (aka z-offset). As for the Z "Fast and Furious" mode- you can change that now.

Just do a M203 X500.00 Y500.00 Z55.00 E3.00 (The Z value before is 5.00) Then do a M500.

The only thing I did was make that change in the FW so I didn't have to reapply that every time (which really on applies if you reflash alot- And I have). Now. Set that with caution. Although *I* have not had any issues with it running that way, I am not responsable if it does eff' anything up.

This is kinda the main reason why I did not release what's running on my Press. I don't want to get angry email from someone telling me their steppers caught on fire (unlikely but I don't want to take that chance.) But that was a risk *I* was willing to take.

As you can see, I've changed a crap lot of stuff on my press so I figured what the hell. Let see if it can handle it.

Sorry for disclaimer mode. I've already gotten a strange msg about if I provided a warranty if they screw up.

What PTC fittings did you use?

Edit: Ah completely missed it.  Thanks!

Why again 5/32 tube for the Bowden setup versus 1/8?

oh ok, i just wasnt sure if the 1.75mm filament needed to have a certain "space" within the tube to move freely and not get messed up. 1/8th is just much more common of a fitting at my local NAPA store's selection of truck air brake fittings. 

now that i type this out 1/8th (.0625) may be too small for the PTC fittings because i believe that they measure those on the OD.  so if 1.75 (.0689) is needed for the filament the fit may be too tight in the end.

As for the prints Bowden vs. Non-Bowden. Here are some pictures.

Left is Bowden - Right is direct drive (Non-Bowden)

Bowden

Non-Bowden (Direct Drive)

*Edit - The white ring on the bottom of the Bowden mount and lever was left over glow-in-the dark filament. Didn't purge enough between prints.

I am talking about print quality. The yellow part was printed with the bowden setup, The black part was printed with the non-bowden setup.

Please excuse my stupid question....These were printed on the press?

They look great.