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Off head extruder/feeder

Posted by se5a 
Off head extruder/feeder
October 08, 2011 09:32PM
Anyone tried feeding the filiment from off the head through something like Mig gun liner - ie same way a Mig welder does it?

Wondering if by doing this, you could maybe feed more than one filiment into an adapted hotend, enabling you to switch colours/filiment types during print.

or is this going to cause some loss of control/add some lag into the system, reducing acuracy/cause other problems.
Re: Off head extruder/feeder
October 09, 2011 02:51AM
It's called a Bowden extruder, and has been used on many machines.
See:
[reprap.org]
and
[blog.ultimaker.com]
Re: Off head extruder/feeder
October 09, 2011 05:04AM
Ah, so it's been done, and successfully too.

Nice to know the name of it and can look into it further now.

Erik looks like he's got some good documentation: [reprap.org]


Has anyone successfully done it with multiple filiments going into the same hotend?
Re: Off head extruder/feeder
October 09, 2011 03:22PM
se5a Wrote:
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> Has anyone successfully done it with multiple
> filiments going into the same hotend?

Not that I have seen, doesn't mean that it hasn't been done though.
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