Hi EMC folks, Apologies for the off-topic, but I would like to confer with the wisdom of real and practiced machinists here...
I have a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer with a dual extruder head (see http://www.etotheipiplusone.net/pics/kewlmoter/rep7.jpg) As assembled, the flatened tips of the extruder nozzles are not quite matched in Z-height, causing the lower nozzle to gouge the output of the higher nozzle. The recommended fix from the factory is that you can shim between the dual-head assembly to the carriage to raise the low side until the nozzles are matched in height. It seemed to me that that's not the proper way to get a matched and coplanar nozzle tip that is trammed to the head's travel axes. I *think* one could basically run the heads over a cutting/grinding/sanding/polishing surface to plane the heads. My understanding is that it's a common practice to mate assemblies and then machine flats to the entire assembled item. But not being a machinist, I don't know what the correct terminology is for that operation. So, here I am asking for your advice! Please feel free to reply off-list. Thank you. Joseph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
