<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/13106/mk5-extruder-bowden-edition/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:15:22 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111995/#p111995 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder wink
http://i.imgur.com/6ov9z8e.jpg

]]> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:15:22 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111995/#p111995 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111993/#p111993 +1 to direct drive!
+1,000 to WELCOME BACK LAWSY!!

DD doesn't have to be ugly. http://i.imgur.com/I0eVhCFh.jpg
With a mount, a guard with a mounted fan, and a fan blade guard, it assumes all necessities, actively cools, AND looks cool!
here is the motor guard link if you feel like working with it.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:723816

]]> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:10:45 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111993/#p111993 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111991/#p111991 Hehe no shortage of credit for you lawsy!
Exactly... now the extruder's up top, why not stick the y motor out the side?? smile

]]> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:57:07 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111991/#p111991 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111988/#p111988 It's not the original belt, it's upgraded if that gets me some credit. Mounting the stepper on the outside would be ugly, but then again the extruder is on top now.

]]> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:40:05 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111988/#p111988 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111854/#p111854 Not to be critical, or to add to your holiday list, but can see a drive belt in the back of your printer there lawsy.
I think next job is direct drive. smile
Welcome back!

]]> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:21:43 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111854/#p111854 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111852/#p111852 It's sitting behind me and on the list for over the holidays.

A friend borrowed my compressor for a while but everything is back and ready now.

]]> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:15:49 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111852/#p111852 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111849/#p111849 IanJohnson wrote:

Lawsy, this is OT but did you ever get that injection molder running?  I was curious how it worked out with hard plastics.

Inquiring minds would like to know wink

]]> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:27:59 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111849/#p111849 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111845/#p111845 Lawsy, this is OT but did you ever get that injection molder running?  I was curious how it worked out with hard plastics.

]]> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:13:44 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111845/#p111845 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111842/#p111842 it gets cold here too. Have to keep it closed all the time. heres my current setup. http://soliforum.com/i/?SM4pU44.jpg

]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:24:34 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111842/#p111842 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111821/#p111821 lawsy wrote:

+1 to not needing the lid to stay hot for me.

Says the guy living where it is currently summer wink

]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:03:42 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111821/#p111821 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111819/#p111819 mdrVB6, I thought your post was a double and mistakenly deleted it. I use the following crimp tool:

http://www.jaycar.com.au/Tools-%26-Sold … s/p/TH1834

I usually add a little solder after it's crimped to get everything as strong as possible.

+1 to not needing the lid to stay hot for me.

]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:01:08 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111819/#p111819 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111812/#p111812 Yep, It's what works for me.  We all have our own ideas and there is no right or wrong way as long as you're having fun doing it.

]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:29:48 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111812/#p111812 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111810/#p111810 Okay, I think I understand what you are saying.  I didn't realize that the top ring of the pyramid was removable and it could be broken down.

]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:21:19 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111810/#p111810 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111806/#p111806 It tends to get cold here so for me the top is very helpful.  In the summer I can definitely print with no top.
As far as wire and tubing management, study my top picture.  Everything is in the sheath which goes through the top yellow printed ring in the second photo.  At that point all wires and tubes are outside of the enclosure.  Then as the sheath meets the rear of the frame the tubes then reenter the enclosure and go up to the motors.  The wires exit the sheath and go down to the board.  I have had no issues with the tubes and how they are curved around.  My settings were very similar to those listed by Lawsy.  Each panel of the cover is removable and all that remains with no cover is the printed ring which I can easily slide down to the frame should I choose to print with no lid or enclosure.  I currently don't have that printer configured with the Cyclops and Bowden setup or I would provide better pictures.  I will say that I like this setup so much that out of over ten SD printers that I have owned, this is how all of them were set up when I sold them.  I realize that the picture of the top with the tape isn't very attractive but that was when I did the very first one and needed a quick solution to hold things in place.

]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:55:54 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111806/#p111806 <![CDATA[Re: Mk5 Extruder - Bowden Edition]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/111791/#p111791

You mean something similar to this set up?  I couldn't find a picture but my usual pyramid lid with a hole in the center worked fine.  I just had a notch in the back panel that went right around the motors.  There was very little air gap and worked rather well.

Ya, that is one way to do it but how did you manage the wire sheath coming in from the back?  Did you cut a hole for that too or just change the way it runs to run thru what used to be the filament hole?  And then is is hard to remove the top?  Any problems having kind of a lot of curve in the bowden tube?

Anyway, here is my SD2.  I'm thinking of doing my SD4 the same way because it is easy to make this out of wood.  It also allows you to mount a spool right above the extruder for single extrusion and when I go to bowden, I could just mount the 2 extruder motors on the back wall of the top part and have the bowden tubes point right down into the build area with no curve.  Just add a dual spool holder outside of the enclosure to the top.  Note that the front door is off here since that print is woodfill pla.

http://i.imgur.com/lk7kTq4.jpg

]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:03:16 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/111791/#p111791