Author Topic: Crap hack. Bulk filament  (Read 60687 times)

spegelius

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Re: Crap hack. Bulk filament
« Reply #105 on: March 29, 2016, 02:26:31 pm »
Nice. Is that sliced with Cube's own SW? It's actually not bad with most objects, but there are some corner cases that make it almost unusable with some objects. Also the supports are damn hard to remove. My guess is that Cube SW compensates for the lack of heated bed with well sticking raft and supports.

I got my Bowden extruder installed and so far it's working fine. Had to change the original stepper to new high current Nema 17, it just didn't seem strong enough and the axle was too short for the Airtrippers extruder. Had to reverse two wires to make the extruder reverse it's direction and now everything seems to work fine. Printing my first test object and it does seem that some of the small problems apparent with the original Cube direct drive extruder aren't there anymore: extrusion seems more even and there's no skipping steps when printing objects sliced with Cura. Need to to more testing to adjust prime/suck settings even though current settings seem to work fine.

I also needed to mod my Cube mobo so i can adjust the stepper current. Initial vref was 0.35V, now running at 0.7V.

I bought some wood filament, i might try that hunter skull to see ho it work :)