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My opinon it works ok. That being said i only use abs because, i have had no luck with pla the heat rise up to the coldend (even with fan on 100% all the time) causes it to skip on pla. That would be my biggest complaint. Also the tension on the filament is not adjustable wich could be part of my problem. But for me when i use abs it works pretty flawlessley.Quote
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So what's the consensus on the stock Folgers hotend that comes with the kit? PLA/ABS, Jams, print quality?
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 29, 2015 11:00AM |
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So what's the consensus on the stock Folgers hotend that comes with the kit? PLA/ABS, Jams, print quality?
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 29, 2015 03:36PM |
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Ive never herd of anybody using the exact mesurement of the specific role. Great advice ill give that a shot.Quote
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So what's the consensus on the stock Folgers hotend that comes with the kit? PLA/ABS, Jams, print quality?
I have no problems with the stock extruder/hotend printing PLA or ABS (both work fine for me). You just have to learn to work with it and avoid the dreaded 'clicking'. Get your temps right, set the actual filament size in your slicer (don't just use 1.75... measure your roll!!). If you still have problems calibrate your extruder (axis_steps_per_unit for the extruder).
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 29, 2015 05:45PM |
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Believe me, I tryed anything to make that rubbish thing works properly ! To be honnest, it works fine until you don't print extra large parts or too long prints, until you need to raise temperature too high for some filaments, until your fan gets lazy, until you overheat your stepper motor.Quote
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So what's the consensus on the stock Folgers hotend that comes with the kit? PLA/ABS, Jams, print quality?
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Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay February 11, 2015 11:39AM |
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Believe me, I tryed anything to make that rubbish thing works properly ! To be honnest, it works fine until you don't print extra large parts or too long prints, until you need to raise temperature too high for some filaments, until your fan gets lazy, until you overheat your stepper motor.Quote
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So what's the consensus on the stock Folgers hotend that comes with the kit? PLA/ABS, Jams, print quality?
My opinion of Folger's extruder. First, nothing is adjustable and that's a problem when you buy 1.8mm or 1.62mm filament Seccond, there's no efficient cooling on the extruder. The 10mm fan is low speed and the heatsink is a secondary part fixed on the mounting block. When your heatblock gets warm, the heat diffuses first in the mounting block, then diffuses mostly on the motor (bigger) and a few diffuses by the heatsink. Poor engineering. Result : my extruder stepper motor is out of order, and the print quality was evolving from start of the print to the end, while the whole system gets too hot. I spent a lot of time trying to adjust temperatures (works fine with a 20mm cube, but not with bigger parts). I tryed to stay in front of the machine to reduce temperature slowly as the heatsink fails progressively to lower the temperature. Both with no succes. It allways started with an acceptable print to end by a jam. So I found another 40x40x10mm fan (from an old computer) and noticed it worked two times better than Folger's. That helped a lot, but was not enough. 2/3 of the printed parts was not acceptable to my eyes. Meanwhile the extruder's stepper stopped, impossible to turn the shaft even with plyers ! I found an old nema17 on a copy machine, same size than Folger's but much more powerfull. Some people said I used cheap filaments, or that my filaments was too wet. I bought new filaments with the same resutls.
So, a bit upset, I decided to stay in front of the machine until I'll be able to print parts of a new extruder, and home made a E3D V5 hotend. Make some pauses during long prints. It took some time, especialy to print large parts as you imagine. Since I mounted a geared extruder with my new hotend, thing became so easy. Whatever filament I used. I could lower or raise temperature with no jam or overheat at all. Pure happyness, at last !
Folger's extruder is the lower quality you can find. If it works fine for you, I'm glad for you. My advice : repace it as son as possible.
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Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay February 20, 2015 11:49AM |
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I tried printing off my first configuration cube last night. Everything had gone smooth until I clicked print for the first time. I had no problems with homing the printing in manual configuration. The x, y, and z axis all moved in the correct direction and made no funny noises. I used the sample filament Folger sent with the kit and had no problems extruding out a small bit manually. I placed a configuration cube and sliced it without any problems. The cube was centered in the 3D modeled print area and no errors came up during the slicing process. When I tried to print the cube, the printer went straight to the far opposite corner of the home position and started to stutter. If there are any other manufacturing engineers, I am sure you can imagine the sudden panic I had watching a cnc device move at a very rapid pace to somewhere other than intended. I have configured the printer settings exactly to the settings posted by Folger in the configuration manual. I'm at a lost on what the problem might be. I am assuming that somewhere there is a confusion on what the printer thinks and I what I think is the location of the origin. I am not overly familiar with the software portion yet. Is there a place to look at the g-code to see the commands its receiving?
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I am thinking about getting this kit in the next couple months, is this a good kit for beginners? I don't mind the building of the printer. Has anyone tried using ninja flex or the bronze fill from colorfab? Also should I think about upgrading anything as soon as I get it?
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay February 21, 2015 07:56AM |
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Ran Marlins test code and bed heated up;
loaded up default marlin file and was able to get heated bed to come on....no motor controls.
Something definitely with the config.h I just cannot figure it out. Hopefully someone be able help out here.
repetier host - When i connect the heated bed status bar disappears completely.
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay February 21, 2015 01:43PM |
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I am thinking about getting this kit in the next couple months, is this a good kit for beginners? I don't mind the building of the printer. Has anyone tried using ninja flex or the bronze fill from colorfab? Also should I think about upgrading anything as soon as I get it?
The stock extruder will probably have issues with ninjaflex due to the gap between the extruder drive and hot end. You would need a more closed extruder type setup that has no gap between the drive gear assembly and hot end feed tube.
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Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay February 23, 2015 04:42PM |
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The waves comes from a mecanical issue. What you have already changed could not help. Something's oscilating at regular intervals. Are your Z threaded rods straight ? Are your belts perfectly aligned ? Have you got some play somewhere ?