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Thanks for the heads-up! I'm wondering how freely your filament comes off the spool though... what kind of reel support do you use?
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I'm not sure it is going to do any harm when it does completely break through. I see no reason to have any guide on the part - surely the filament could be fed directly from the spool to the hobbed insert?
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I don't see how, given that the distance changes so much with X position. A Bowden rotary drive could be used I suppose (like a car's speedo cable or flexible drill drives), but that will almost certainly have more backlash than the push-pull filament. The only other way I can think of would be an arrangement of arms and pulleys like an old-fashioned dentist's drill, but again there would be lots of backlash in that.Quote
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Hi, putting the extruder on the hot end might be possible for the single extruder version but when we want to use 2 or 3 extruders it's going to get very heavy, I was wondering if some sort of flexible drive could be used between the motors mounted on the arm and the hobbed end mounted on the extruder.
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