My other printer
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:07 am
I'm still printing those structured water devices on my Afinia printer and other than then "natural" filament having a few bad spools it's been plugging along with no problems. Well, today two prints aborted with a jammed nozzle. I ran a wire through it and extruded some more and looked at in under a microscope. OMG! WTF, there's assorted crap in there! I extracted the filament and cut off the end to look at under the 'scope. Crap on the very end but nothing up higher. ?? Had the thought to take the extruder apart, there was a ball of black fuzz in there going around with the drive gear. I presume bits were getting stuck to the filament and fed down to the nozzle. Cleaned it all out and starting a new print now. Hadn't expected to find dust balls inside the extruder.
I do run the filament through a piece of foam rubber, some spools seem extra dirty but this one seemed to be running clean. No idea when that fuzz got in there, I've run dozens of spools through that machine since the last time it was apart. Even the build-tak surface is running around 250 uses and still going strong.
Almost forgot: sharks with frickin lazors
I do run the filament through a piece of foam rubber, some spools seem extra dirty but this one seemed to be running clean. No idea when that fuzz got in there, I've run dozens of spools through that machine since the last time it was apart. Even the build-tak surface is running around 250 uses and still going strong.
Almost forgot: sharks with frickin lazors