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Topic: Worn filament feeding gear ?

I love my Davinci 1.0 printer and am looking for an "Office Space" moment soon. After the cartridge/software many exciting hours, the heated bed filament failure, the calibration hours, the power supply replacement, the head cleaning to fix multiple jammings, the loose nut that makes calibration so much fun, now I believe the aluminum gear is getting worn.

Why I think that ? Because when the bed is too close, there no clicking, it just does not feed until I stop the print job, do a reload of the filament and check it comes out. Because at the last cleaning of the head there was quite a bit of black dust in the extruder area that I believe is actually shavings of the gear.

Where can I get a new, hopefully better, feeder idle gear ?

Thanks,

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Re: Worn filament feeding gear ?

What filament are you using, stock xyz or other? I have the blue Shaxon stuff and its constantly getting clogs where it snaps off in the feeder gears.It maybe just my batch because it seems way more brittle than the stock filament.  I Never had this issue with the xyz filament.
I notice also if i do a larger print with  no issues. Smaller pieces with more intricate details is a guaranteed clogging. The breakage can happen in 5 minutes or hours later on the same object at different layers. 

If it is a weak stepper gear who makes a good one that would work in the Davinci 1.0?

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Re: Worn filament feeding gear ?

darcwarrior wrote:

What filament are you using, stock xyz or other? I have the blue Shaxon stuff and its constantly getting clogs where it snaps off in the feeder gears.It maybe just my batch because it seems way more brittle than the stock filament.  I Never had this issue with the xyz filament.
I notice also if i do a larger print with  no issues. Smaller pieces with more intricate details is a guaranteed clogging. The breakage can happen in 5 minutes or hours later on the same object at different layers. 

If it is a weak stepper gear who makes a good one that would work in the Davinci 1.0?


I have had the same issue with Shaxon Bright yellow, bright green, and bright pink. I think I am going to give up on Shaxon. The only colors I have had for them, that are reliable are natural, red, and black.

It's not a machine fault, but the filament. I am printing with orange from Midland which is Microcenters house brand with no issues.

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4 Reply by kszwab (edited by kszwab 2015-05-12 18:37:00)

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Re: Worn filament feeding gear ?

Third party Microcenter Inland ABS one, 230C. Worked fine before.