Having the right spring tension on your Wade’s extruder can be the difference between a useful part and a broken part. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Wade’s Extruder’
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Importance of Wade’s Spring Tension
August 5, 2011 by Hannah
Category RepRap | Tags: Fix,LM8UU,Print Quality,Prusa,Spring Tension,Troubleshooting,Wade's Extruder | No Comments
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Bowden Extruder Troubles
July 13, 2011 by Hannah
Our Huxley hot end kept popping out from the clamp, which was warping under the heat, and ramming into the print bed gouging out designs in the plywood.
Several iterations of clamp design later and we’ve settled on a beefed up version that seems to cope with the force of the extruder (even when I had set the Z STEPS_PER_MM to 20% of what it should have been). (more…)
Category RepRap | Tags: Bowden Extruder,Build Progress,Extruder,Fix,Hot End,Huxley,OpenSCAD,PLA,Thingiverse,Troubleshooting,Wade's Extruder | No Comments