Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Mk IV is printing

Today Mk IV got ready.

After making the parts

they were assembled.






It extrudes ABS very well.

For the first time I dared to bore a nozzle with a cheap 0.3 mm PCB drill on my drill press. The drill went through the brass without any difficulty.

The nozzle prints very well. Unfortunatly I broke my 1 mm center drill on Saturday, so I had to use and ordinary 3.5 mm drill for the inside of the nozzle.




5 comments:

  1. Can you try to replicate "prusa nozzle"? I think thin alum spacers (9-10 pcs) on steel tube will work good.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/prusajr/7855243338/in/photostream/ or google "prusa nozzle"

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    1. Soldering aluminium on a stainless steel tube would increase the thermal conductivity of the tube. This would contradict my intention to keep the transition zone (between glass transition and melting) short.

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  2. Ok steel spacers can be used with thickness less than 1mm
    and gap about 2mm. Prusa uses 0.5mm wall thickness tube and small "spacers" and mystically does not require cooler.

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    1. But if you solder them with silver the heat conductivity will be high in the vertical direction. Prusa's barrel can't be made without a lathe. And to bore a centric 3.5 mm hole along a 65 mm stainless steel tube actually doesn't sound like fun. ;)

      Personally I believe that a hotend with a cooler allows you to control the length of the transition zone much better than without.

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  3. I plan not to solder spacers but use tight fit. So heat will do not go up through soldering. And yes do not make tube myself but buy a tube, solder one tip and drill a nozzle.
    BTW Measurements of allmetal hotend with cooler were made by french reprapper http://forum.allinbox.com/aspectgeek/AutresElectronique/3DPrint/termine-repstrap-imprimante-sujet_8600_3.htm

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