Extruder 3/4 Assembled

I took a little trip down to the hardware store today now that I have
my Mk2 RP parts... things went pretty well. I got to the lab around
9:30pm and started at it... i got it mostly assembled. i gotta wait
for the epoxy to dry (yes, there were some hacks involved... but
everything is looking great, and the test runs looked good.

wednesday i have a work party... bummer

hopefully thursday i can get an extruder barrel up and running. i
certainly have the parts for it.

~Zach
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Are you going to make one out of a brass bolt like Vik did or one of the copper tube ones that I came up with?

i'm probably just going to drill out a couple inches of a bolt and
screw that + jbweld into the wood i'm using as my thermal barrier.
unfortunately i couldnt really find any good hollow tubes that were
small enough at the hardware store... plus i have a drill press so it
should be pretty easy to do that part.

also, the drill press worked really really well in tandem with my
dremel as a cheapo lathe to smooth down the parts of the rod... a
drill press is one of the top 3 tools you should get if you can... i
got mine for $90 from harbor freight. its a pretty crappy press, but
it definitely gets the job done.

~Zach

On 3/21/07, Forrest Higgs wrote:
>
> Are you looking to make the extruder barrel out of a bolt or do one of the
> copper tube ones that I developed?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Zach Hoeken
> To: Reprap Developers
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:50:05 PM
> Subject: Extruder 3/4 Assembled
>
>
> I took a little trip down to the hardware store today now that I have
> my Mk2 RP parts... things went pretty well. I got to the lab around
> 9:30pm and started at it... i got it mostly assembled. i gotta wait
> for the epoxy to dry (yes, there were some hacks involved... but
> everything is looking great, and the test runs looked good.
>
> wednesday i have a work party... bummer
>
> hopefully thursday i can get an extruder barrel up and running. i
> certainly have the parts for it.
>
> ~Zach
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