Can I use a different diameter extruder gear in my printer? I.e. 8mm Rather than the 9mm.
I also neeed a spare gear ASAP. Please
This should not be possible, because you would decrease the material flow without adaption of the moving speed of the printhead. You would probably run into “underextrusion problems”.
Regards
Oliver
Paulo, as stated a different size (smaller or larger) gear can cause problems but thats because we are unable to adjust the feed rate on the zortrax. The other issue with using a different od gear is that the roller is fixed (non-adjustable/sprugless) so if yougo over sized you wont be able to feed filament and if you go undersized there will not be enough bite. Regardless of zortrax’s proprietary master plan i think the lack of extruder tension is a HUGE mistake on their part, take away the fact it causes problems for the end uses, it just worries me that the lack of the adjustments means the lack of filaments zortrax will be able to indroduce in the future. I do feel that zortrax will, one day, offer an upgrade otherwise we might as well move on now.
Back to the gear, now i did upgrade my i3 with a larger gear a while back and forgot to re-config the feed rate before printing but to my surprise the print was better then with the oem gear, im going to chaulk that up to maybe it wasnt set properly at the factory though.
What i have been trying to hunt down is a zortrax factory size (od & id)gear but just with more teeth. If i find one im thinking i can start printing with my abs carbon filaments.
What i have been trying to hunt down is a zortrax factory size (od & id)gear but just with more teeth. If i find one im thinking i can start printing with my abs carbon filaments.
5mm ID with 0.5mm depth flat, 9mm major OD, 8mm minor OD
5mm ID with 0.5mm depth flat, 9mm major OD, 8mm minor OD
Thanks chunky, i have the dimensions and have been looking for a few month now but to no avail. All 9mm od gears are the concave style which means the contact od is like 7mm.
What i have been trying to hunt down is a zortrax factory size (od & id)gear but just with more teeth. If i find one im thinking i can start printing with my abs carbon filaments.
I have printed Carbon ABS on a standard M200 with the only problem being the filament is very brittle and has occasionally broken coming off the spool whilst printing. I have tried both Z-ABS and Z-Ultrat setting to print the Carbon ABS and both printed well.
The finished printed parts when tested the ABS Carbon is stiffer than Z-ABS and Z-Ultrat but it is more brittle and breaks at less load.
I have printed Carbon ABS on a standard M200 with the only problem being the filament is very brittle and has occasionally broken coming off the spool whilst printing. I have tried both Z-ABS and Z-Ultrat setting to print the Carbon ABS and both printed well.
The finished printed parts when tested the ABS Carbon is stiffer than Z-ABS and Z-Ultrat but it is more brittle and breaks at less load.
Thats good to know, my problem currently is just being able to feed the filament into the extruder.