Anyone heard from Larry? Any idea how he is doing?
...Just bought an anycubic photon...
I posted in another thread where my buddy had the plastic forward reverse gears break on our lathe and asked about having someone print them. Also I would like a full set of change gears for my craftsman 109 lathe and they typically run 120-150.00 for the originl zamak ones.
After reading through this thread some, and watching a TON if videos and reviews on youtube, I figured it would be best to skip the hassle and middlemen, and dropped the hammer on a Creality Ender 2. I figured it would be a good place to get started and learn, as i have 0 experience with anything really CAD or CNC related (i want to get into both) and for 130.00 i don't think i could go wrong. Going to start with 2kg of PLA filament to get me started and to figure out what I'm doing then ill order some nylon filament to upgrade the gears. I already have fusion 360 though I haven't messed with it much since I got it.
We are machining our first set of 3d printed, steel, injection mold cores right now.
We don't have a printer. Our customer has one and they provided us with the pieces.There's been a lot of talk around our water cooler about acquiring a metal 3D printer... What did you guys select and how's it working out?
We're looking at one to make actual prototype parts and I keep leaning toward the side of a machining center instead...
We don't have a printer. Our customer has one and they provided us with the pieces.
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after a bit of a break i fired up the ol printer again. Time to print some D&D mini's for a game we are running.
But im failing pretty hard. will get 10 minutes into the print and just stop extruding. i was just watching it as it reached its fail point. and it just prints air. i pushed the filament down into the extruder and it started working again, but it was too late to save the print.
i pulled the fan off and blew out the extruder gears but they have a bit of build up i cant get to.
any one have any advice?
I've never had to hit a nozzle with a torch before... Whatever temp the hot end will come up to is usually plenty to get a good purge going. I suspect your issue is, or at least wasn't until it got all gooey from that small mishap, probably not a contaminated nozzle if you had to get that aggressive with it.
Other food for thought, if your print is failing at the same exact place every time, there's probably something up with your gcode. Maybe try a different slicer or attempt a different part and see how it prints?
I have tried two different models with very similar results.
I have been trying This goblin assassin
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1256348/files
And I can't find the link for the other module I'm trying.