Nice mash-up, the Aero_Nimble_swapper
Posted by Lykle
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Nice mash-up, the Aero_Nimble_swapper June 30, 2017 03:26AM |
Nice mashup of different products.
MrBlom used an Aero based hot end, mounted a Nimble inside and fixed all this on a print head swapping printer. What a tight package!
Hmm, sorry about the sideways image.
I love it! It looks like a very nice compact unit. It is so well packaged that the Nimble all but disappears from view. It is almost the size of a "normal" hot end, but has the extruder included in there. Ideal for the switching print head mechanism.
Looking at this, it will come as no surprise that there will be others that use the Aero method to reduce the overall size of the hot end package. I don't think it can be much smaller than this. I tried it out and it does work, with a heat sink I milled myself. But more testing is needed before this becomes something that I would want to use all the time.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/2017 03:27AM by Lykle.
Lykle
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Co-creator of the Zesty Nimble, worlds lightest Direct Drive extruder.
[zesty.tech]
MrBlom used an Aero based hot end, mounted a Nimble inside and fixed all this on a print head swapping printer. What a tight package!
Hmm, sorry about the sideways image.
I love it! It looks like a very nice compact unit. It is so well packaged that the Nimble all but disappears from view. It is almost the size of a "normal" hot end, but has the extruder included in there. Ideal for the switching print head mechanism.
Looking at this, it will come as no surprise that there will be others that use the Aero method to reduce the overall size of the hot end package. I don't think it can be much smaller than this. I tried it out and it does work, with a heat sink I milled myself. But more testing is needed before this becomes something that I would want to use all the time.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/2017 03:27AM by Lykle.
Lykle
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Co-creator of the Zesty Nimble, worlds lightest Direct Drive extruder.
[zesty.tech]
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Re: Nice mash-up, the Aero_Nimble_swapper June 30, 2017 04:04AM |
I haven't seen the Aero naked ( without heatsink ) but I'm sure it would be easy to make a watercooled version of it. In combination with a remote direct drive like Nimble or Flex3drive it would be a winner. (I'm trying to stay neutral 
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