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Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-24T02:16:34Z

Claghorn's Website wrote:

All the little unexpected hitches definitely slowed me down.

Gee that's surprising glad you're up and running. Also, check your PMs.

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-24T02:06:59Z

Actually, the hot end position was a false alarm, I just had to be more careful locating the sweet spot where the combination of Z stop screw and bed leveling screws would let me get the nozzle positioned correctly. Have no fear, E3D, new bed heater, new cable management, and new power supply are on the horizon, but at least I've seen it actually print something again after this week's mods of the new carriages, mk5 extruder, and Y direct drive (pant, pant, pant, wheeze...)

The full tale of the surprisingly painful carriage and extruder conversion can be found at:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/har … riage.html

The direct Y drive was a piece of cake in comparison:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/har … irect.html

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-23T21:33:44Z

Yeah, I wouldn't let the PSU hold you back.

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-23T21:22:31Z

A lot of folks use the stock PSU with the e3d. It should work fine. A supernight is never a bad idea though. I have more power than I know what to do with and that's certainly a good thing.

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-23T21:17:04Z

wardjr wrote:

You own it, might as well install it I don't know what board you have but if it is the stock Sang that came on your SD2 changing the firmware is rather easy.

I have the printrboard, but the firmware isn't the problem (I've got an ISP I've used to try different firmware before), the power supply is the problem. The socket on the printrboard isn't rated very high, so I need to do some soldering to route power directly to the mosfets if I want more power available. I've got everything planned out (I was gonna upgrade the bed heater at the same time), but I've been postponing the surgery :-).

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-23T20:53:18Z

e3d! e3d! you'll wish you hadn't left it in the box so long! do you already have an mk5 for the e3d v6?

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-23T20:41:18Z

You own it, might as well install it I don't know what board you have but if it is the stock Sang that came on your SD2 changing the firmware is rather easy.

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-23T19:45:31Z

Aaugh! Might be simpler to just install the E3D along with all my other mods at this point. I finally got everything put back together, but now I find the stock solidoodle hot end sits so high on the new carriages and extruder that I can't raise the bed enough to print anything :-).

I guess my quickest fix might be to wedge something under the springs in the bed to compress them more so I can raise the bed some more with the leveling screws (the springs go floppy now before I can raise the bed enough).

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-22T05:07:50Z

Update: A small pair of wire cutters worked wonders, gnawing through the plywood with a few bites and cracking the acrylic with a single nip. I now have a freed solidoodle hot end.

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-20T23:17:23Z

The more mods the better I hear Ya!

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-20T19:29:24Z

I've got an E3D stashed away already, but I'm currently working on the simultaneous replacement of the carriages and converting to a Y direct drive, so I thought it would be nice to keep the total number of changes from growing even larger. Maybe next week after I get this much working, I'll tackle the E3D (and I still have an improved bed heater to work on someday as well :-).

My mods (past and future): http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/har … -mods.html

(And I've already been discovering that trying to think ahead and make sure you have everything you need is hopeless, so keeping the number of mods down seems like a good idea).

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-20T14:23:18Z

See I can't even give that away
Seriously, at this point why aren't you upgrading to an E3d? I have a new V5 in the box I'll cut you a good deal on if you'd like.

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-20T05:37:21Z

Cutting them off definitely seems like it would be simplest. I already suspect I'd never be able to reassemble the maze of acrylic that now resides in a plastic bag :-).

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-20T04:35:41Z

Just use a side cutter and cut them off. If you ever decide you want to go back to the original acrylic.... What am I saying you'll never want to go back but I have a whole assembly with hot end that I'll make you a good deal on.

Re: Remove the last bit of plywood and acrylic from solidoodle hot end?

2014-12-20T03:55:10Z

It slides around OK, but There is a lip on the PEEK at one end and the heat block and nozzle on the other and no obvious way to get enough force on anything to unscrew the heat block without crushing something :-).