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Extruder change and upgrade

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:16 am
by Neil
On my continuing mission to elevate the weight on the z axis I was thinking of removing the hot end and extruder motor, in favour of mounting the motor to the frame and running the filament to an ed3 titan v6 style hot end.
I understand the filament will need to be run through a Bowden style set up.
Now my main question is has any one modified their printer on this way and could you point me in right direction of where and how to start

Re: Extruder change and upgrade

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:26 pm
by _kaktus_
Hi
:mrgreen:

It won't hurt if you look at the design of the M201 printer.
;)
By the way, a very interesting concept.

Re: Extruder change and upgrade

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:45 pm
by Neil
I've found some resources for printed brackets and parts should run me to the cost of about £20 GBP (> $25 USD)
I'm thinking of adding a filament sensor of some sort, but I need to work out the programming