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General Discussion / Zortrax transitioning to a print farm?

« on: January 22, 2020, 08:14:24 PM »

Not much activity here lately so maybe no one will see this.  Has anyone else noticed that Zortrax seems to be pushing a print farm business model recently?  Makes me wonder if they will stop selling printers to consumers all together.

My old M200 is starting to have issues and I've been thinking about I should looking at for a replacement.  Any thoughts?  I'm partial to the Prusa lineup at present, especially if they release the XL model soon.

Mike

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General Discussion / Z-Temp products compatible with new Zortrax M200 V2 Hotend and heater PCB?

« on: May 04, 2018, 08:24:46 PM »

And specifically is the Zortrax V2 hotend functionally the same as the Z-Temp hot end?

I'm about to replace my heater & T/C as well as the PCB and want to make sure there will be no issues.  The Zortrax V2 hotend looks like functionally equivalent to the Z-Temp hot end so I'm guessing there will be no problems there.

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General Discussion / Error Code 032 in Z-Suite?

« on: January 24, 2017, 07:46:40 PM »

I've been these at the start of about 1 out of 3 prints lately working with MeltInk PLA+PHA using Z-ABS in the slicer a -70° in Z-Temp.  Is there anything that can be done to prevent it? 

In case it matters, I was having dual fan problems on the hot end/extruder a while back and repaired the old-style ribbon cable by cutting off the last 1/2-in or so of the cable and installing a new cable connector.

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Materials Compatibility / PolyMax Strings between parts

« on: July 05, 2016, 01:39:52 PM »

I'm using PolyMax at -80 and 0.14mm, high speed, 100% fan, normal seam on multi-part prints and getting a lot of very fine "strings" between the parts.  Is that pretty normal for this filament.

Oh yeah - Z-Temp V1, and ZT-HE on a Zortrax M200.

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Materials Compatibility / PolyMax raft removal

« on: June 21, 2016, 01:02:14 PM »

I ran my first prints with PolyMax yesterday and the raft seems much more difficult to remove than Z-ABS - are there settings or procedures that can be used to improve this?

I'm using a Rev 2 M200 with:

- FW 1.0.3,
- Zsuite 1.0.5.2,
- the 2015 Z-Temp with a 22k resistor on the bed switch
- ZT-HE with 0.3 mm nozzle
- Bed heating off
- No shim
- (-80) Z-Temp offset on Z-ABS sliced file at 0.19 µ (I think)
- Orange PolyMax (I also have red and black that can be tried if color makes a difference.)

So far, I've tried printing a filament clip, and a little 2.25 D x4 W x 2.25-in H open box.  The raft on the box seemed to be a little easier to remove about 12 hrs after printing but didn't want to budge right after printing.  The raft was pretty easy to separate from the print bed.

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Materials Compatibility / Best filament for least warping but still glue-able?

« on: June 16, 2016, 08:21:25 PM »

I tried to print a rocket fin that is about 150 mm tall, 225 mm long and about 12 mm wide.  The fin is tapered so the best way to print it seems to be with the 12 mm wide face on the platform, making it tall and wide with a narrow cross section.

Z-ABS warps pretty badly on the bottom as might be exepcted, even with glue stick and ABS juice, but the main problem is that it cracks in the X-Y plane about part way up the print.  As I understand it the part will be used in a model rocket that is powered by those Estes rocket engines, so I assume that it needs to have good strength and resistance to delamination and probably decent weather-ability.  It also needs to be gluable with dowels or pins.

I thought I'd try some Polymaker PolyMax PLA but am not sure if that can be glued.

Is there a better filament to try?  Something with a selection of colors would be nice, but that's not a deal breaker.