Semi flex succesfully printed with hack

[brett]

Today I printed ICE-Flex filament. The first 2 times it wound around the extruder gear. So I looked at the problem and the filament seems a little small/ flexible for the extruder wheel. So I took some electric tape and wound it 4 times around the extruder gear and tried again.

https://youtu.be/ltjoHhVpe7c

This time it went perfect, it feels really strong. Im thinking to try and print a smartphone protector out of the material.

[Julia Truchsess]

That's awesome, thanks for sharing! Ive tried to develop a guide to prevent gear wrapping, but there's very little room in there for anything. I must try this

[paulo]

nice hack brett. i tried something similar by re making a slightly bigger gear out of colorfabb ht. it worked for about 2 mins then disintegrated. the principle is there. ive also just read about some success with raftaway and slower speeds which are better for flex filament.

[Julia Truchsess]

Yes, with speed reduced to 50% with RaftAway all the issues with feeding flex filament went away for me.