Filastruder Kit Gallery - Pictures of Filastruders in the wild! (Page 5 of 7)

Here is the cable - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10646
And the connectors- https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10651

I would send you a longer cable, but everything I have is already cut down.  I recommend getting extra connectors, I always manage to mangle a few.  You don't need any fancy crimping tools, I just mash them down with the flat of my caliper.  Pay special attention to the order of the colors in relation to the locking tab.  The connector is oriented the same way at each end of the cable so you don't have to keep track of which end is which- the connector goes on in the same direction no matter what.

Where can i find instructions for assembling my v1.3 filastruder ?

I'm thinking of getting into making my own source plastic and was wondering through the forum. It's great to see the personalization and ingenuity people come up for their machines. Very cool. Seems like great support for those who are working out their issues....also very cool.

Any luck getting horizontal oriented filastruder to extrude anything good ?
I could not find a way for filawinder to pickup filament so i gave up.
I assume for ABS it does not matter so much because its not as rigid as PLA when its cooled. PLA failed to coil using electric drill because of that, ABS was sorta manageable but would fail once in a while so i still needed a filawinder.

Do new filastruders have an anti-stall addon to them? Is there a photo anywhere? can't seem to find one

I got my Filastruder and Filawinder fully up and running today! Still have to get everything calibrated as far as temperatures go (for size) but soon I'll be making cheap 1.75mm filament.

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Sorry, forgot to change it to hidden rather than private! Also, it's been running for the past 4.5 hours and has finished about a pound of pellets already! At this rate, it should do a kilo in 8-9 hours. Also, even though it's mounted vertically, the filament curve causes it to go from the nozzle to the copper ring which helps guide it through the Filawinder sensor. The Filawinder works flawlessly and the Filastruder is operating at 184 deg C to get ~1.78 +/- .04 mm. I did have to lower the sensor, but only by turning the box it's on on the side rather than the edge.

I give that temp bump a shot next kilo I run through for sure. What kind of insulation comes with the kit? I figure it works well so I might get a long length of it for the barrel. The trick with the ammeter to calibrate the stall board was perfect, I set it to 1.595 A and it runs at a nice constant speed without stalling. I would personally recommend that as the default method for anyone who has an ammeter rather than the 6-8 turns method because when I did 8 turns at first it was only at ~1.25 A.

here's my set up. I made a steam punk style enclosure for my filastruder and mounted the winder next to it. I have a cut off valve in my funnel so I can load and mix then mount it in.Rather Pleased with it.

#1632 reporting for duty, Christchurch, NZ.
Currently extruding a 50/50 mixture of ABS and HDPE, ie shredded milk bottles.
The temp is high for this pull. I will try lower later.
Very noisey, I will enclose the motor.

note: servo is on backwards, leads to min pos > max pos.

hopper and mount

The shredded HDPE is extruding at 2.5in /min, very slow. I'm sure that the issue is the granule size and shape.
The granules are not flowing fast enough down the tube. The shredded granules do not tumble like the ABS pellets.
I will have to shred to a smaller size. These granules are got to size by just reshredding many times (a dozen).

I have spent some time cutting the shredder tooth shape into some sheet metal to go from 6mm thickness down to
2mm. The granule size is very important, maybe not so if the extruder was of industrial size.