Experiences with building and using the E3D Titan extruder (Bowden) September 24, 2017 09:27PM |
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Re: Experiences with building and using the E3D Titan extruder (Bowden) September 26, 2017 06:37PM |
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"but you can't put a heat sink on the stepper like I could on the Thing that I built, which is a drag"
reduce the current to the driver, I've ran 3 T clones for 18 hrs a day and the stepper just dont get hot enough to warrant a heatsink on the stepper.
as for the bolt coming loose you sure you put it in the right hole, first time ever read about one coming loose.
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Re: Experiences with building and using the E3D Titan extruder (Bowden) October 08, 2017 01:11AM |
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Thanks for your effort! The E3D site has a SCAD file that allows you to gen the spacer you require. So I made a 3mm one that now allows the stepper spur gear to sit low enough to be flush with the extruder gear.
I rebuild my Titan with a longer bolt that bottoms out in the extruder shaft hole, with the included washer to close the gap to the plastic housing and now the Titan squeaks during a retraction. Sigh. I will add some washers to snug this up because I think the bearing isn't held well enough now.
Constant fiddling.
DLC
Re: Experiences with building and using the E3D Titan extruder (Bowden) October 25, 2017 07:52PM |
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Re: Experiences with building and using the E3D Titan extruder (Bowden) November 02, 2017 01:04PM |
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Probably so. But now I have 90% of an extruder and some fine metal dust.
I was very careful about tightening that last screw while grumbling about a design that had no safeguards to prevent over tightening. The design is such that the blasted screw will just keep backing out. The lock washer is not much of an asset, I suspect that if one tightened it down enough to prevent the screw backing out then it might be tight enough to bind the bearings. In my case I got shredded bearings all the while having to re-tighten that screw.
Regardless, I haven't heard from 3dmakerworld in several days after I told them about the problem. I hope they respond, or I will simply have to take it as a $50 lesson learned about a particular product and be disappointed. My fingers are crossed.
Thanks,
DLC