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New to the forums. Where can I get one of these or the plans to make one? big_smile

SD2 Pro + RH + Slic3r on Win7Ent (~Craigslist Oct. 2016 my 1st printer: upgrading & calibrating to near perfection)
- E3D V6 hotend; 30A PSU; Glass bed for ABS or Blue Tape on glass for PLA
- X-axis NEMA 14 press on fan (thing:1871741); Lawsy almost everything else; 3mm Z axis rod (thing:1868824)
- Sang board w/all headers, ATmega1284P w/OptiBoot and Marlin beta firmware; VRef tuned

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At https://www.filastruder.com/ of course!

FuseBox 1.5 CoreXY - e3dv6 - Graphic Smart Display
Solidoodle 2 - e3dv6 - Hobb Goblin - e3d Titan - lawsy carriages - Direct Drive Y Axis - T8 Z axis - OctoPi

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http://soliforum.com/i/?WPYzcBI.jpg
Picture of filastruder #2689 finally working after so many hours of work
http://soliforum.com/i/?sLqf2WC.jpg

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Just finished my new Flilastruder 2.1? Its black and sleek and full of smoo.

If I had a little bit of feedback.
I would be very interested to see how people did their wire management in that little space.

It appears that the directions for 84.5mm on the auger may be a bit off. I couldn't get my collar up that far, and the auger was solid against the socket and motor's shaft. My guess with the thrust washer was to allow just few thousandths of play from the motor when the auger is pushing plastic, so that you don't put pressure on the gear box, but maximize engagement on the socket. If that's the case, perhaps a feeler gauge measurement between the motor housing and seated socket would be an alternative?

The filter and clip for the machined tip are a bit big. I'm not too sure how I am going to get them back out. I had to 'dome' the filter to make it fit, and the clip was butted at the open end.


For anyone interested, I uploaded a photo of my new struder and a video of the plastic being pushed out. This is with the filter and you can clearly see bit of junk being pushed out. As well this is only about 30 min into the  first run.

A shout out to Tim for getting me the latest product. Now on to the winder!

BTW: This is the first run, so please don't give me a hard time about nothing be secured. I just wanted to see if the darn thing worked.

http://soliforum.com/i/?uiqaOBK.jpg

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Smow wrote:

Just finished my new Flilastruder 2.1? Its black and sleek and full of smoo.

If I had a little bit of feedback.
I would be very interested to see how people did their wire management in that little space.

Its tight for sure. I think short of changing switches to smaller ones there isn't too much to be done unfortunately.

Smow wrote:

It appears that the directions for 84.5mm on the auger may be a bit off. I couldn't get my collar up that far, and the auger was solid against the socket and motor's shaft. My guess with the thrust washer was to allow just few thousandths of play from the motor when the auger is pushing plastic, so that you don't put pressure on the gear box, but maximize engagement on the socket. If that's the case, perhaps a feeler gauge measurement between the motor housing and seated socket would be an alternative?

Hmm, this is puzzling. If you had less than 84.5mm of distance from the shaft collar to the end, I'd have expected less socket engagement, not more.

At any rate, the goal is for the thrust bearing to handle the thrust load, not the motor. Generally if there's thrust on the motor, you'll see it reach the current limit.

Smow wrote:

The filter and clip for the machined tip are a bit big. I'm not too sure how I am going to get them back out. I had to 'dome' the filter to make it fit, and the clip was butted at the open end.

Hmm, perhaps the clips have changed somewhat. I'll look into this today.

Smow wrote:

For anyone interested, I uploaded a photo of my new struder and a video of the plastic being pushed out. This is with the filter and you can clearly see bit of junk being pushed out. As well this is only about 30 min into the  first run.

Very cool! It looks like all of those particles are smaller than ~200 microns, so the filter is doing its job removing anything that would plug a printer's nozzle.

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Just checked on the melt filter nozzle. The C-clips are rated for 0.625" diameter fully compressed, but a sampling of recent nozzles shows that diameter where the clip goes to be 0.615-0.620. I'll talk to the machine shop about getting that opened up a bit.

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Yep, I can confirm that the ID for the alternate machined nozzle on mine is .614 (I have two).

that would explain the difficulty with getting it in smile

As for the auger: the primary shaft has a taper on it (a weld?) which then leads to the actual auger implement. This is where I was having difficulty with getting the collar to the correct length. By-and-by, its solved because I simply allowed a few thousandths of play on the drive sockets and I don't have any issues. I would argue that this could be added to the manual for checking the 'throw' of the thrust bearing, to insure that we are not applying pressure to the gear box.

BTW, so far so good. With out the winder, I am getting 1.77 to 1.80 at 187.7c

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Finally! Filastruder 2607 is now doing a full-on run with visually consistent filament. Everything is working as far as I can tell.
The material is recycled from green (plus some yellow and blue) print scraps processed with meat grinder, then dried with a food dehydrator, and kept dry with a 1 lb. bag of dessicant in the hopper. Here's the Filastruder, with an "extended" hopper and a vibration motor:
http://soliforum.com/i/?W9jxD58.jpg
Then the Filawinder with a stronger arm support and a mount for a thickness gauge:
http://soliforum.com/i/?35X0TCc.jpg
As well as a printed version of the sensor unit, since the original broke:
http://soliforum.com/i/?aUn4mIq.jpg
Now I can start working on making virgin filament with colorant powder, and eventually some composites.

Filastruder 2607 w/ Filawinder @1.75mm.
Dual-extruder MaxMicron Prusa Mendel: RAMPS 1.4 w/ Repetier Firmware+Full Graphic LCD Controller, stock hotends, 3Dator extruders w/ MK8 gears, insulated enclosure w/ 2 heat lamps, RPi 2B w/ Repetier Server.
0.1-0.2mm layer height, heated bed w/ PEI surface, inductive-sensor autolevel, 0.5mm to 0.2mm nozzle diameters.

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Well, I got the Filastruder working again, this time at the right diameter and with decent extrusion rate, but thanks to my incompetence at the drill press I poked a hole in the mesh filter, and my intake has way too many contaminants in it, something I never noticed with the mesh filter. No Filastruder clogs, but the filament kept breaking from the sheer size of the contaminants in it.
Aside from that, consistent 1.67-1.75 recycled ABS filament at 195 degrees Celsius. I forgot to measure the actual speed, though.
Soon I'll get the time to take off the nozzle, burn off the plastic, clean it up, pop in the new filter, and start another run.

Filastruder 2607 w/ Filawinder @1.75mm.
Dual-extruder MaxMicron Prusa Mendel: RAMPS 1.4 w/ Repetier Firmware+Full Graphic LCD Controller, stock hotends, 3Dator extruders w/ MK8 gears, insulated enclosure w/ 2 heat lamps, RPi 2B w/ Repetier Server.
0.1-0.2mm layer height, heated bed w/ PEI surface, inductive-sensor autolevel, 0.5mm to 0.2mm nozzle diameters.

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Got my Filastruder (#3284) and Filawinder working this week producing PLA! Definitely a bit more particular about temp/dryness, but it's coming out at a consistent 1.6mm with pretty even color. Once I drill the hole out a little, it should be closer to 1.75mm. Pretty excited about it since I go through a decent amount of filament for my CAD class. Nice kits, easy to put together and good instructions!  Thanks!

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I went to the URL and clicked the PDF link and got an instant 404 error.

I am curoius to know how and the whats and wherefores of this, seems that I already have about 0.5kg of junk prints already...

Any information on the quality of the filament it pushes out, like has the chemistry changed, heating generally alters the chemistry of something, even if it was originally heated to make that item, with each heating cycle, a change takes place.

So how good is this filament to print with?

Bob's your uncle (and likely your father too...)
I laughed that hard, I burst my colostomy bag.... (When I got my GeeeTech Pi3 ProB)
Prusa i3 MK2 clone by GeeeTech aka Pi3 ProB with a GT2560 board on MX17 Linux.

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What PDF? I visited that link and lit loads fine.

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Here is my Filastruder and Filawinder completed today.   Will break it in next week when I have time http://soliforum.com/i/?qvqx9KJ.jpghttp://soliforum.com/i/?itBpsV1.jpg

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Someone who can give me a hand.
Finish assembling the filawinder and the filastruder.
To the filawinder I already took it easy.
But with the filastruder, after a week I still do not give the exact calibration for the pla to 1.75.
Read the manual, and adjust the potentiometers as indicated.
Tested with several temperatures, and nothing I do not give with the solution, the filament is even thinner or thicker, this makes it stretches.
Tested with pellets and recovered remains and does the same in both cases.
I have extruded filament but it is not valid for the printer

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http://soliforum.com/i/?gBlAfLE.jpg
First trials
http://soliforum.com/i/?soGc5oS.jpg
Decided to add a forward/reverse switch for the motor

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Hi Sebastian from Berlin reports build of filastruder 4510.

My self designed hopper pipe that shall be used also for recycling material can be found here...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0luj0i81ps104 … e.zip?dl=0

http://soliforum.com/i/?BqqUhlv.jpg  http://soliforum.com/i/?TyRIfOp.jpg

"... you have set my feet in a spacious place" Psalm 31,9
Tinkering, improving, making, trying to make the world better.

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http://soliforum.com/i/?MJ0MEd1.jpg
Mr. Filament is composed of the following:

Filastruder and Filawinder
    http://www.filastruder.com
External Electronics Box for Filastruder
    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4599566
Fume Extraction system for Filastruder.
    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4399664
    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4545842
Beta version of Erik's (better) Filawinder replacing original. (link to be added when final version released)
Filawinder Wall Mounted Laser Sensor
    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4199247
Auger Assisted Hopper for Filastruder
    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4386326
Video Showing Current Setup:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLPLXYwhyE

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#413 is online
Got it on ebay as an unopened original kickstarter.
It was sent out 8-8-2013, opend by me 2-20-2021.
It was like a opening a time capsule.
It was as much fun looking and learning about your machines as it was to build my own.http://soliforum.com/i/?WKxINnB.jpg
Its churning away on the vintage abs pellets that were sent.
I think my fan is way too high, that's an easy fix. http://soliforum.com/i/?eLivQQc.jpghttp://soliforum.com/i/?fc2p7j1.jpg
Have some upgrades in mind, but that's for my next order.

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I finished the cleanout and dried some fresh ABS pellets yesterday.
I installed a piece of fine screen before the nozzle, even though my nozzle is a plain ole stock nozzle before running new pellets.
It is amazing how much better the new stuff looks and feels.
My diameter has been +/- .03 and I am stoked.
Ran some filament thru my Ender 3 pro and it prints beautifully.
I left it running last night and woke a couple hours later to a blob, but I think I know why.
My Filawinder nut that holds spool on backed off a little and stopped the reel from spinning, I installed a washer and a second nut to lock it and it seems fine now.
I had issues at first with the filament moving around a lot as it extruded so I put the top hook from a metal clothes hanger in the fan holes as a guide.

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I changed how the guide pieces on the sensor tray were oriented and I didn't have to babysit so much.
They were curving out at first, I turned them around so the Filament was more contained and this made a huge difference in how smooth and consistent the filament was.

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The mod I made today is a vibrator for the hopper. I used an auxiliary battery pack  that holds 4 AA batteries I found on Amazon.
I  had an old thermostat I removed the mercury switch from and Wired it to an old fan motor that I broke a couple fins off of to unbalance.
I put a hose clamp on the drive socket and it tips the mercury switch every rotation for about 1 second.
Man this is fun stuff!!!

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