Saintflint Extruder

By mmemetea

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Saintflint Extruder

By mmemetea

74
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Free
It's free to download

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Saintflint Extruder

By mmemetea

at 2024-05-03
This is an original design of an extruder that has the following features:- Symmetrical load on stepper axis;- Adjustable filament pressure without spring;- Simple & open design (easy to see what's happening inside);- No need for a geared reducer, direct drive;- Support flexible filament (anti-buckling support on both extrusion and retraction);- Best bang for your buck;See it in action:*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3HcuB7CWsAFiles for modification are publicly available and with a free Onshape account here:* https://goo.gl/ESpfDwFor details about fitting the coil on the stepper motor, you can find them by looking for #bicgear , #saintflint or #flintfeeder on Google Plus.05-09-2015 Uploaded some variation on the current design, namely:- MK8 gear based version- NEMA14 based version (uses smaller 625 bearings). This last version should perform very well as a "suspended" extruder on a delta with a short bowden. Very light yet powerful enough to get along with the speed.  

Technical

- 1 Coil flint from a BIC or Mini-BIC lighter; - 4 Shims w/ inner diameter > 5 mm (I used rolls from a used bicycle chain; - 1 screw M3 5 mm length OR - MK8 ================================= - PTFE liner 40 cm; - 2 608 bearings; - 2 screws M3 20 mm length; - 3 M4 nuts to secure the PTFE line (2 for the loop and 1 for the start of the bowden line to the hot-end); - 1 Step motor NEMA 1.7A (or even lower);

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m0n5t3r
m0n5t3r
about 8 years
I added a mk11 version (luckily onshape is similar enough with freecad for me to find my way around it; cringy service otherwise, asking for phone numbers and stuff...)
ckaos
ckaos
over 9 years
Thanks a lot , will take it for a spin :)
chris-nobody
chris-nobody
over 9 years
Thanks for your help Michael !
mmemetea
mmemetea
over 9 years
I meant mk8, not mk7... Sorry.
mmemetea
mmemetea
over 9 years
I just uploaded an MK7 version. It should work, please confirm as I don't have any. The only trouble you could run into would be due to some contact between the non-hobbed part and the conical part. Let me know if it's ok. You should reach 150 mm/s without problem (my printer isn't rigid enough to reach this speed in a usable way but I will try for the sake of it).
chris-nobody
chris-nobody
over 9 years
Is your Extruder usable for MK7/8 Gears?Not the lighter Gears from Shauki) Great Invention! Thanks for sharing!
ckaos
ckaos
over 9 years
Very nice design ! Two small questions: - what is the maximum speed you tried it on ? (looking for something that can possible manage 100-150mm/s without too much trouble) - can you also use something other than a flint, ie an MK8 etc ?
mmemetea
mmemetea
over 9 years
Printing speed usually 70 mm/s - Retraction 3 mm @ 40 m/s - Works flawlessly for far. The tricky part is really to install the flint correctly.
rsenas
rsenas
over 9 years
Great!!! What speed settings? Retraction and had never seen such a brilliant idea and a motor pulls it right? And again thank you for providing. Big hug.

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