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General Discussion / flex filament widget

« on: April 04, 2019, 03:29:31 PM »

hello z temp world!

after many hours trying to crack this myself. someone else has done it and it works brilliantly. so well in fact ive managed to print my first ever 12hour print on using ninjaflex with no jamming and amazing quality. shit the bed! its the best mod i have ever made to my zortrax.... apart from a ztemp of course

https://library.zortrax.com/project/spacer-for-flex-filament/

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General Discussion / all metal feed tube

« on: October 21, 2017, 12:40:13 PM »

Hiya

just got to play with all metal feed tube but am having problems with blockages/ feeding. ive measured the filament and its definetly getting stuck in the feed tube. Im using a pa12 filament. i ve swapped out to a new 0.5 nozzle and tried up to 300c to ensure the material is viscous enough.

what should the bore size be in the tube?

by the way customs took another £20 off my hands for just the two feed tubes you sent over. thats almost the cost of the parts!

thanks
paul

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General Discussion / grabbing setting from zcode

« on: October 05, 2017, 01:50:12 PM »

hi guys

maybe oxdeadbeef can help. or others...

i have some old zcode on an sdcard which i know worked out great. But i cant see what the settings were. I know i should have written them down but its the 2017 and nobody uses a wrtting implements anymore.

thanks in advance.
paul

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General Discussion / TCT in uk?

« on: September 19, 2017, 07:00:26 AM »

Hi guys

are you going to the TCT show in uk per chance?

thanks
paul

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RaftAway / error?

« on: June 23, 2017, 09:11:32 AM »

Hi guys

i havent fired up raftaway for a while but i keep getting errors see below. any ideas?

thanks
paul

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General Discussion / Zortrax top cover

« on: April 18, 2017, 10:43:19 AM »

Hi all

ive just knocked myself up a top cover for my m200. it works a treat!

I found it to be useful to stabilise temperatures and virtually elimainate warpage on large coverage prints. It also dumbs down the fan noise too.

Its produced in durable PETG, very easily installed and has a lift up lid. I can also supply fixings and brackets

There are others on the market which are ridiculously expensive and OTT.
https://www.octrom.com/3dp/product/top-cover-for-zortrax-m200/

what are peoples thoughts?

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2256659

cheers
paul

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RaftAway / Printing to glass

« on: April 10, 2017, 06:00:46 PM »

Hi guys

I need some tips for printing to glass. I'm now using z sense which is working out pretty well but the bracket is a little flexy. I could do with the model so I could reprint with some stiffening ribs.

Anyway I'm trying to print raffless with pla onto glass so I can get a near perfect hi gloss base.
I've tried a lot of things and have managed one decent print but it's too inconsistent and risky.

I'm normally printing pla with abs profile at -60/-70 with z temp, slowing the print down by 50%, over filling the first layer by 300 and constantly tweaking the z sense height.

Cheers paul

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Materials Compatibility / Strongest material holy grail

« on: October 18, 2016, 03:23:46 AM »

I doubt I'm the only one but still have spent countless hours and money trying to find the strongest material. Fit what I generally do the parts I produce are not generally flat and regularly require support so support removal is important.

Materials I've tried.
Z abs. Basic and brittle
Z .ultrat. Best compromise of quality, consistency and strength.
Z pcabs. Really good but only comes in ivory and can split on the layers.
Z petg can be really strong if printed as single part but hard to remove support
Z hips. Pretty similar to z abs.
Colorfabb xt cf - comes very hard with hard material support. Can be brittle. Really good for gears
Colorfabb ht - the strongest material I've found but really hard to remove support and raft.
Poly max- I've experimented a bit but it seems very similar to z ultrat but with harder to remove support
Pc max - no played with enough but has been hard to remove support.

My conclusion after all this is the fundamental weakness is either the layers delaminates through stress or the depositing of material is so good that the material is truly welded but results in hard to remove support.

Before buying the m200 I was quite close to buying the inventure but that has only the one material still. However if the inventure could print colorfabb ht with its dissovable material may well be the best thing ever.

The only other thing is post processing. I've tried baking prints but that dries the material out so much that it is brittle. I've tried chemicals but that is messy. I've thought about boiling parts but not got around to it yet.

Thoughts anyone?

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General Discussion / flexion extruder

« on: August 29, 2016, 04:37:26 PM »

anyone else thought about fitting a flexion extruder? i kinda figure its not easily doable but i was thinking about replacing the idler bearing with a tooth gear to help grip flexible filament. thoughts?

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General Discussion / perforated plate contacts

« on: July 05, 2016, 11:19:28 AM »

hi guys

ive installed the bed heat control and afterwards i got a "check perforated plate contacts". i checked through a few forums which mentions the molex connectors. i checked these, couldnt see anything but decided to add some solder nonetheless. No effect. I orderdered a new perforated plate. no effect.

ive taken the base off and checked all connections, removed all the z temp parts but i still get the same error.

Help!