Filastruder Documentation and CAD/STL files (Page 6 of 15)

Okay - thanks a lot for your help!

As I suspected:

In this day and age we have 4TB hard drives, 128GB microSDs the size of your fingernail, but a 20MB email attachment is too large?

So, I used your company's dropbox, which helpfully provided:

When's the last time someone was on a T1? This is 2014. At any rate, you should be good to go now.

Going through the current 1.5 documentation (what can i say... im excited for this to arrive)
RTA to RTR section 4 -- error. you mention the diagram to the left, but diagram is on the right.

also, from your Wiring diagram, the RTA Kit - RTR Extruder (electrical)
step 6 is incorrect (from wiring diagram).  the switch should turn on the PID Controller, not the heater directly.

The instructions never say where or how to install the thermocouple?  I read thru it a few times, searched it on the pdf and no mention.  By looking at pics, it seems the sensor tip goes into the hole on the side of the brass nozzle?

I have to be crazy, right?

Thanks. 

On the power supply, I don't have a meter and the wires are blue and brown? If I wire it up wrong, will the motor just run backwards, or will it harm the controller?  You can just put all the wires coming into the '10' position under the screw, or do you need to wire nut them together in a Jerry rig harness as the wiring diagram shows.

I'm having problems with the 1.5 assembly instructions, re: compression of thrust bearing.

I've managed to get as far as attaching the main support to the base. In particular, I'm having a problem with these two points:

-Attach the two angle brackets to the bottom of the main support using silver screws.  Position the main support such that there is a 2-3mm gap between the end of the feedscrew and the interior edge of the socket. See the cutaway view to the right. Note that the motor shaft is not shown in this view for clarity.
-Line up main support on the base, slide feedscrew into coupling, ensuring thrust bearing is compressed, then attach angle brackets to base. The goal is to make sure the boards are far enough apart that the bearing will be in compression before the screw bottoms out on the socket.

On my assembly, the auger freely slides in and out of the pipe by about a few centimeters, because the thrust bearing and nylon spacer pass very neatly through the hole that came drilled in the support. However, any pictures or video I see on this assembly show the thrust bearing and nylon spacer pressed firmly up against the support which is giving compression to the bearing. Is this different in 1.5? Is the idea that I do want the entire auger assembly to slide a little inside the pipe, and that the build up of molten plastic near the nozzle will press the auger back against the motor to create that compression?

In general, may I add that I've had a difficult time following the instructions as I didn't initially know what any of the terms referred to. Example, I didn't know what the nipple was until I realized the instructions was alternating between referring to it as a nipple, then a barrel, then a pipe. Might I suggest a pictorial index at the start identifying each of the uncommon items by name or number, and then consistently use such name in the following instructions?

Hmm, both are true on mine. The auger sticking out 1/4" at the nozzle end, and the collar is 95mm from the other end so it sounds fine there. I can't seem to post any links to anything, but every image posted in the gallery in this form, and every image I see on google (at least where this area is visible) shows the thrust bearing well outside the wooden block. At one point the bearing was blue? Or is that something else I'm seeing?

Can I get confirmation that the auger is supposed to slide in and out of the pipe by a couple centimeters after everything has been assembled together? Or should I maybe fix this by pushing the auger tight into the motor socket before attaching the base?

I just got my Filastruder for work.  I work for a government facilty and your assembly instructions are not allowed to be downloaded.  Zip files do that.  Can someone send me a PDF of the assembly instructions?  Or is there another place to get the instructions?  Thanks

I can't get access to the build video, and I stuck with the wiring with no voltmeter

I received my kit today
how do I see this video?
Assembly video, goes with Revision 1.0 of the instructions.

I have a v1.2, and I'm having issues figuring out where in the instructions we went wrong.  At step 10, it says to tighten it without crushing the spacers, but when I try to tighten the bolts, there;s a couple-mm-wide gap between the back flange and the spacer.  Image of what I mean is here: 

imgur.com/VylLsQ7

When it's not on the wood center piece, the auger and the nipple look like this: 
imgur.com/xiiRDr0

Do I have the flange too far on or not far enough on or something? I took apart the filastruder because the barrel was turning, even though it should have been at the right temperature and it had extruded for 8 hours yesterday with no issue.  Now I'm just confused.