RepRap Extruders
Contents
Strategy
Select based on what Lulzbot and Prusa i3 Original use. Week time scale
- Select - By Monday
- BOM - by Tuesday
- Order - By Wed
- Test -Saturday
- Compatible with ramps, using existing RAMPS system
Tech Tree of Choices
Evaluated by:
- Open source
- Ramps compatible
- Simplicity + high performance
- Easy to source parts
- Easy to build (little to no cost for fabrication after parts are secured)
- Naturally low cost
- MK8 Extruder - $18 - [1]
Links
Choices
- Mini J-Head - GPL - [5]
- Lulzbot, with Hexagon hot end - [6]
- J-head does polycarbonate - [7] - $13
- J-head .5 mm - [8]
- $35 j-head .5 mm prime - [9]
- MK8 Direct Drive Extruder Assembly - $35 - [10]
- Prime - j-head - $12 - [11]
- Universal extruder - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:183982
- Compact 3 mm extruder - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:375894
- Lucas - experimental - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:378330
MK8 With Direct Drive?
- This says MK8 can do 3mm filament - [12]
- 3mm drive gear for MK8 - [13]
- Geetech on Amazon prime - 3mm? - [14]
- MK8 gear is strong enough to stall stepper motor - [15]
- Pros and cons of direct vs geared extruders - [16]
- "and move the filament's drive gear away from the heat that radiates up from the hotend. As far as I'm concerned it is a fatal design flaw in the Mk8-style extruders - [17]
Wade Extruder
- Genealogy - very nice - [18]
- $15 for parts, minus hot end and motor - [19]
- About - [20]. Making a Hobbed Bolt is relatively easy.
