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bortek

over 3 years

How do you actually change the filament? Do you just push in a new one and it starts rolling in? There is no open-close mechanism like on iRoberts V2 feeder.

SolidPrint3D

almost 10 years

Takei, just to elaborate, the quick change is used in the middle of a print now, while paused at z you change filament, and resume printing. As far as optimized pathway, the only thing youd need to do is to release tension on the bearing. the pathway would remain the same. You don't need a hinged design (which seems to be a little flimsy) if you could disengage the tension on that bearing using other methods. Anyways, just a thought, maybe I'll work on it some.

Takei Naodar

almost 10 years

<p>The MK8 Version of the main Body is for the use with the MK8 Drive Gear. Also thanks for your kind Words. Although i do not intend to do a quick-change Variant of the Feeder because of Problems with the Stability of the whole thing and it would be hard to keep the optimized pathway for the filament. For me it works nice enough with the standard change Material option built into the Ultimaker 2.</p>

SolidPrint3D

almost 10 years

I just noticed there are 2 sets of main-body halves where the filament channel is slightly offset. Is this part of the v3.1.1 revision? When was this revision posted? I believe I downloaded this model 90 days ago +/- . I've got some killer filament in from Zeni Kenetic that prints super nice and thought it's about time to print a new one, but I want to make sure I print the correct version. Just loaded everything from the zip into Cura and there are in fact 2 sets, a 3.1.1 and a 3.1.1 mk8 ? I'm using this feeder now, and I must say, it works very well. I've tried them all and this one seems to be pretty rock solid, and I print 24/7 every day of the year basically. I just took it apart for the first time in about 2000 hours printing, and it's still very nice on the inside. filament rubbing at the entrance hole has rubbed an oval shape into it, but other than that, it's holding up good, and more importantly, filament extruding problems are a thing of the past. One thing I would love to see is this rock-solid design in a configuration that allows for quick material change so I can do more things with the new firmware (pause at z) for the UM2

Takei Naodar

over 10 years

Yes this is on my Spool and Feeder holder. Your assumption is correct. ^^

AaronAlai

over 10 years

I'm having a little trouble seeing how this thing goes together. Did you just take the extruder motor completely out of the UM2 and affix it to something. A picture from further away might help clear things up for me.<br><br>Edit: Did you mount this to your spool holder design?  