1 (edited by chorobe 2016-08-11 14:33:20)

Topic: Da Vinci Jr Filament Not Rolled Right?

Has anyone ever had this experience with the da Vinci Jr filament kind of knotting up then breaking off?  I bet that was not good for my gears, and of course I was away from home so could not cancel when it first happened.

It looks like it was not rolled properly at the factory when you see the filament looping under another.

Check out the pic!http://soliforum.com/i/?053xEO8.jpg

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Re: Da Vinci Jr Filament Not Rolled Right?

@chorobe - never happened to me with stock rolled spool. Happened couple of times with used spools before I started to use small bulldog clips to keep filament end in place when stored unused in filament box.

Actually I made little hack device to prevent situations like that.
(I've build filastruder to recycle random everyday household plastics and some of my early spools where I haven't mastered proper cooling had tendency to stick and behave like a nut in your case)
I use spool holder attached to the side of 2020 aluminium extrusion (orange and white Jr plastics are gone as you can tell) and underneath the spool I have attached microswitch (aka endstop) which is then connected to the relay to cut out power on Jr if that happens.

Also I'd suggest not to leave printer unattended while printing (like leaving the house). Don't forget that it goes up to the temperatures around 200c. It's like leaving soldering iron plugged in. You wouldn't do that.
Ok I do leave studio while it's printing but I have security measures in place like my spool endstop, camera to observe situation and couple temperature sensors in various places.
All that is hooked up to raspberry pi zero which is going of battery in case if I lose power.
Yeah, you can say I'm paranoid but better safe than sorry.

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Re: Da Vinci Jr Filament Not Rolled Right?

@kr15_uk, Thanks for the suggestion.  What I did was show my wife how to cancel because she was home and noticed it was doing this but did not know what to do.

Maybe in the future I'll have to set up some kind of failsafe like yours lol!