Saturday 4 April 2009

Big Extruder

Here is my attempt at the biggest object that I have made. Not a great success!
It is about 20 cm long and 8cm tall designed to have a stepper one end and a tube through the middle.
It warped and the darker discolouring at the bottom is where I used a hot air gun to flatten it!
It is made with ABS
I had my whole extruder assembly come loose in the last part hebce the unfinished flattened top.
Also It lacks strength as the layers are not close enough together.


2 comments:

  1. It looks like you've got several brown strings in the middle of the block (not at the top or bottom). What temp are you extruding at? I had a bit of brown at 240C, and sometimes the extruder gets very stiff.
    Knocking it back to 220C gave a more consistent flow for me.

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  2. At about 240 although I was not convinced of the temperature control at the time.

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