-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/16/2013 7:02 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > -Does relocating the filament spool above the printer to > straighten out the filament path help? I notice some people do this > and others don't.
Yes. I was going to post the feed tube was not brutally simple. Brutally simple is the feed system I use on my MendelMax: Spools mounted above the printer, without so much as a guide hook (the rectangular opening at the top of the frame serves as a crude guide, I guess). The brackets were printed, and the PVC tube is the re-purposed shipping container for the linear rods and Z axis lead screws. This has worked well for me so far, but I also don't do overnight unattended prints (about four hours is my longest print so far). I realized I don't have any good wide shots in my videos, so I posted a still on G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106079792142766516843/posts/K5FBQmwN19v - -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG90JQACgkQLywbqEHdNFwc7wCgutctwrZ9uFS0F733SBr6x+I2 YFkAoPvh8+xEAWcee5BTwwCbrOqkNDUQ =3J2n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
