Anyone tried feeding the filiment from off the head through something like Mig gun liner - ie same way a Mig welder does it? Wondering if by doing this, you could maybe feed more than one filiment into an adapted hotend, enabling you to switch colours/filiment types during print. or is this going to cause some loss of control/add some lag into the system, reducing acuracy/cause other problems. https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100647#msg-100647 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:54:33 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100738#msg-100738 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100738#msg-100738 -------------------------------------------------------
> Has anyone successfully done it with multiple
> filiments going into the same hotend?

Not that I have seen, doesn't mean that it hasn't been done though.]]> NewPerfection Plastic Extruder Working Group Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:22:51 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100679#msg-100679 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100679#msg-100679
Nice to know the name of it and can look into it further now.

Erik looks like he's got some good documentation: [reprap.org]


Has anyone successfully done it with multiple filiments going into the same hotend?]]> se5a Plastic Extruder Working Group Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:04:00 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100663#msg-100663 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100663#msg-100663 See:
[reprap.org]
and
[blog.ultimaker.com]]]> NewPerfection Plastic Extruder Working Group Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:51:30 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100647#msg-100647 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?70,100647,100647#msg-100647
Wondering if by doing this, you could maybe feed more than one filiment into an adapted hotend, enabling you to switch colours/filiment types during print.

or is this going to cause some loss of control/add some lag into the system, reducing acuracy/cause other problems.]]> se5a Plastic Extruder Working Group Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:32:13 -0400