Timeline for Insulate hotend on Makerbot Smart Extruder
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 14:30 | comment | added | Joal Heagney | WHOOPS. On further experience, I can't recommend this just yet. I DO get a distinct hot wool smell on very long prints. Let me get back to people about how well this works over a longer time. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 9:40 | comment | added | Joal Heagney | I didn't NEED to pull the extruder apart completely. I was able to unscrew the nozzle/block and tube arrangement from the stepper array. On the Geeetech, this is easy to do if you first unclip the stepper's cables, remove the fan from the stepper, then unscrew the whole array from the x-axis assembly. Remove the nuts from the extruder tube, and you're good to wrap. However, I DID pull the nozzle and tube from the aluminium block as I needed to blowtorch a LOT of plastic off and out of them. I had to replace the teflon tube after, but it needed replacing any way. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 9:29 | comment | added | Joal Heagney | I just grabbed a 1/2 metre of felt from the fabric shop, cut a strip out using scissors and then snipped a hole for the extruder tube. Then wrapped the felt around the aluminium block, snipped another hole to let the nozzle through, then trimmed it to length. Then I just grabbed the thread tape and kept wrapping until the extruder block was one plastic pink slab, with the nozzle and the tube poking through. | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 3:37 | history | edited | Greenonline♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2018 at 1:17 | comment | added | Stacie | The flat pieces of felt? I might try that! I've been afraid to Crack open the extruder housing. Did you have to do that to re-wrap yours? | |
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| Jul 8, 2018 at 22:00 | history | answered | Joal Heagney | CC BY-SA 4.0 |