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Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-03-05T01:22:39Z

Idid replace the wooden part (I guess this is the groovemount) of my solidoodle 3 with a aluminium I made on my drillpress. Its keeping up better then the original part made from wood..

Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-03-05T01:21:51Z

Idid replace the wooden part (I guess this is the groovemount) of my solidoodle 3 with a aluminium I made on my drillpress. Its keeping up better then the original part made from wood..

Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-03-05T01:14:45Z

adrian wrote:

3dcad wrote:
maybe i should replace the groovemount then
Okies - should be a fun journey.
I personally would think along the lines that given its the defacto standard, there can't really be that much of a problem with it since so many companies and systems use it effectively all over the world so maybe I should examine what/why/how I'm having an apparent problem since it would seem to work successfully for 10000's of both printers and users before I declared it horribly broken and in need of replacement for a new standard.... But maybe that's just me and my conformist attitude

Problem fixed :-) It looked like the filament was jamming because of the peek not in the right place but this was not the issue.

thanks anyway

Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-02-28T14:05:45Z

3dcad wrote:

maybe i should replace the groovemount then

Okies - should be a fun journey.

I personally would think along the lines that given its the defacto standard, there can't really be that much of a problem with it since so many companies and systems use it effectively all over the world so maybe I should examine what/why/how I'm having an apparent problem since it would seem to work successfully for 10000's of both printers and users before I declared it horribly broken and in need of replacement for a new standard.... But maybe that's just me and my conformist attitude

Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-02-28T09:59:18Z

maybe i should replace the groovemount then

thanks for the reply

Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-02-28T02:21:03Z

.... groove mounts for hotends are also quite well entrenched... so if every hotend practically uses it be it all metal or PEEK I'd suggest there perhaps isn't an intrinsic flaw in the design

Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-02-28T00:26:38Z

2n2r5 wrote:

on a lathe.

They're really great for production!

Re: why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-02-28T00:09:47Z

3dcad wrote:

Maybe there is a reason for the peek to be round but can someone please let me know why? im having problems with mounting / aligning the peek properly. To me it looks like a square peek (outside) would be easyer to mount and KEEP in the same place.
thanks

Peek usually comes as a rod and works well to machine on a lathe.

why is peek usually? a round part?

2014-02-27T23:23:06Z

Maybe there is a reason for the peek to be round but can someone please let me know why? im having problems with mounting / aligning the peek properly. To me it looks like a square peek (outside) would be easyer to mount and KEEP in the same place.

thanks