Flexidrive is Flex3Drive Early Birds
Posted by Mutley3D
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Re: Flexidrive is Flex3Drive Early Birds October 19, 2016 05:44AM |
Heres mine
Yeah thanks for that i recently changed a the blog name sligthly thanks for noticing theres not much content on it anyways as been busy doing alot of things past cpl of years
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/2016 05:49AM by chris33.
Check my rubbish blog for my prusa i3
up and running
[3dimetech.blogspot.co.uk]
Yeah thanks for that i recently changed a the blog name sligthly thanks for noticing theres not much content on it anyways as been busy doing alot of things past cpl of years
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/2016 05:49AM by chris33.
Check my rubbish blog for my prusa i3
up and running
[3dimetech.blogspot.co.uk]
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Re: Flexidrive is Flex3Drive Early Birds October 20, 2016 11:27PM |
I want something thats better than the normal bowden setup which is good for a 3mm filament but not good for 1.75mm, ABS prints ok not PLA...always jamming and I tried different brands of filament, the flex3drive looks like a winner for softer filament. I have a prusa i3 in my garage and I print only ABS but the mini kossel is inside the house and I print only PLA because the fumes.
Thats a big ass fan
Thats a big ass fan
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Re: Flexidrive is Flex3Drive Early Birds October 20, 2016 11:41PM |
I checked your blog and you stopped for more than a year... let me guess, married? Kids? 
For your bed you could buy PEI (mine is a 0.8mm thick glued to the glass) which I have on my printer and you don't need anymore any spray, tape or glue to hold your printouts, the flexi3drive sales the building plate which I may buy as well because I need to replace mine after in the beginning I used a sharp blade to remove the stuff I printed out when the bed was still hot - patience is not in my name.
For your bed you could buy PEI (mine is a 0.8mm thick glued to the glass) which I have on my printer and you don't need anymore any spray, tape or glue to hold your printouts, the flexi3drive sales the building plate which I may buy as well because I need to replace mine after in the beginning I used a sharp blade to remove the stuff I printed out when the bed was still hot - patience is not in my name.
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Re: Flexidrive is Flex3Drive Early Birds October 28, 2016 12:24AM |
Slanwar - PB will be on its way. Thank you. I managed to find some time to get some other stuff completed as you can see below, on the KosselFlex I have also included a couple of other images I thought worth sharing. This post should address a couple of questions I have had recently about retraction performance on the Flex3Drive, aswell as the request for Kossel Mini info.
Here is the hotend fan shroud for the Flex3Drive G4 Kossel Mini. It fits under the end effector (stating the somewhat obvious). The brass inserts are for M2.5 screws to hold the print cooling ducts and fans in place. Two fans horizontally opposed, with a third fan self contained within the cowl for hotend cooling. The cowl was printed in Black ABS on the Kossel.
This image shows the complete installation printing Aria the Singing Dragon by the wonderfully talented Loubie from Thingiverse. Printing in unknown old crusty black PLA, needless to say the print didnt actually finish do to a self destruct when printing one of Arias legs, the cause I will point out in the next image
Here is a profile shot of the print cooling fans. Just a tiny bit too low. The self destruct occured because on this installation the fan caught a very slight curl on a leg, because the ducts are probably a mm or two too low, so I have subsequently reworked them and they are now good. It was tricky to get the right trajectory of the ducts so as to cool the print as efficiently as possible, but without actually blowing onto the nozzle tip. the other consideration was ensuring the maximum possible printing area was maintained. I think 165mm of the available 170mm can be printed on without intersecting the belts or extrusions with the fans.
So thats a nice little installation that im very happy with now in design terms, for the Kossel Mini Flex3Drive. Fans, ducts, shroud. aswell as the end effector and extruder assembly, aswell as motor mount and other ancillary items are all part of the Kossel Mini Flex3Drive product. There is also a very short clip of the start of the installation lap here (for you slanwar ) It is only a short clip but I will get a better clip in the coming days.
Thought I would also share a couple of voronoi prints, completed on the Ultimaker UM2 Flex3Drive. The large brown is done in an old Bronze PLA (not Bronzefill) from RepRapSource in Germany. Its very old filament, but came out quite well. The shown item is not post processed or cleaned up at all aside from removing the inbuilt support struts that are part of the model. This was a 20+ hour print 0.12mm layer height. The Orange is 3DFilaPrint Premium brand (I think) ABS 8 hour print @ 0.2mm LH. The small brown one was done on the UM2 also, and is probably just at the minimum size, i think it was 30 or 35% scale down. Last but not least is the little red fella, printed on the Kossel with a 0.25 nozzle, and i think at 20% scale.. It is 19-20mm tall. Im pretty pleased with how it has come out, probably now pushing the limits of plastic, but i have some smaller nozzles on the way for kicks and giggles
And here is a work of art from user MTVDNA over on 3dprintingforum.us original post here and reproduced with kind permission. This is simply stunning, printed using Flex3Drive on a UM2 with Makerpoint Pearl Gold PLA. This was a 24+ hour print.
Aria the Singing Dragon is by Loubie on Thingiverse
The Skulls are the skull lamp by Shiuan on Thingiverse
The Vornonoi Yoda is by 3Dizingof over on Youmagine
Flex3Drive.com
I have also included a couple of other images I thought worth sharing. This post should address a couple of questions I have had recently about retraction performance on the Flex3Drive, aswell as the request for Kossel Mini info.Here is the hotend fan shroud for the Flex3Drive G4 Kossel Mini. It fits under the end effector (stating the somewhat obvious). The brass inserts are for M2.5 screws to hold the print cooling ducts and fans in place. Two fans horizontally opposed, with a third fan self contained within the cowl for hotend cooling. The cowl was printed in Black ABS on the Kossel.
This image shows the complete installation printing Aria the Singing Dragon by the wonderfully talented Loubie from Thingiverse. Printing in unknown old crusty black PLA, needless to say the print didnt actually finish do to a self destruct when printing one of Arias legs, the cause I will point out in the next image
Here is a profile shot of the print cooling fans. Just a tiny bit too low. The self destruct occured because on this installation the fan caught a very slight curl on a leg, because the ducts are probably a mm or two too low, so I have subsequently reworked them and they are now good. It was tricky to get the right trajectory of the ducts so as to cool the print as efficiently as possible, but without actually blowing onto the nozzle tip. the other consideration was ensuring the maximum possible printing area was maintained. I think 165mm of the available 170mm can be printed on without intersecting the belts or extrusions with the fans.
So thats a nice little installation that im very happy with now in design terms, for the Kossel Mini Flex3Drive. Fans, ducts, shroud. aswell as the end effector and extruder assembly, aswell as motor mount and other ancillary items are all part of the Kossel Mini Flex3Drive product. There is also a very short clip of the start of the installation lap here (for you slanwar
) It is only a short clip but I will get a better clip in the coming days.Thought I would also share a couple of voronoi prints, completed on the Ultimaker UM2 Flex3Drive. The large brown is done in an old Bronze PLA (not Bronzefill) from RepRapSource in Germany. Its very old filament, but came out quite well. The shown item is not post processed or cleaned up at all aside from removing the inbuilt support struts that are part of the model. This was a 20+ hour print 0.12mm layer height. The Orange is 3DFilaPrint Premium brand (I think) ABS 8 hour print @ 0.2mm LH. The small brown one was done on the UM2 also, and is probably just at the minimum size, i think it was 30 or 35% scale down. Last but not least is the little red fella, printed on the Kossel with a 0.25 nozzle, and i think at 20% scale.. It is 19-20mm tall. Im pretty pleased with how it has come out, probably now pushing the limits of plastic, but i have some smaller nozzles on the way for kicks and giggles
And here is a work of art from user MTVDNA over on 3dprintingforum.us original post here and reproduced with kind permission. This is simply stunning, printed using Flex3Drive on a UM2 with Makerpoint Pearl Gold PLA. This was a 24+ hour print.
Aria the Singing Dragon is by Loubie on Thingiverse
The Skulls are the skull lamp by Shiuan on Thingiverse
The Vornonoi Yoda is by 3Dizingof over on Youmagine
Flex3Drive.com
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Re: Flexidrive is Flex3Drive Early Birds October 28, 2016 08:52AM |
Some impressive printouts but printing for more than 24 hours 
are the fan mounts part the kit?
are the fan mounts part the kit?
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Re: Flexidrive is Flex3Drive Early Birds October 28, 2016 10:27PM |
Just ordered the flex3drive for my mini kossel and I ordered the PB as well, any idea how long would take to get here? Crap I forgot to request a color... give me any color thats not black but if I have to wait then black is good
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2016 10:29PM by slanwar.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2016 10:29PM by slanwar.
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