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What are the advantages of a eavl and pinion over the standard belts and pulleys?
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gmh39
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Hi I am a US based (NYC area) product design engineer. I work professionally developing optical products and accessories.
I have extensive experience 3d printing along with other various manufacturing and techmiques.
If you are interested in having me work of a project shoot me a PM and we can talk more.
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gmh39
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"Hello, I'm a designer." "I'm an engineer."
I'd be more than happy to. Shoot me a PM and we can work out the details.
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Would this temperature controller work for regulating the heated bed temp?
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gmh39
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ok cool. the previous owner installed a heated bed with a reprap PCB and aluminum build plate, but it takes forever to heat up and I am having trouble measuring the temp.
Since I would prefer to stick with the BFB electronics, is there any particular place on the bed I should put the 200k thermistor? I am not sure if there is enough space in the center for it, so would the end of the bed prov
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gmh39
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I got it off craigslist so I can't exchange the filament. Plus its all loose.
I ordered a ramps kit just as a back up. I think setting up an external temperature monitor would be the easiest.
Also, since it is a single extruder and the board can support dual extruders, would it be possible to hook the heated bed up to the second extruder input and monitor/set the temp via the second extrude
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gmh39
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So i bought a Rapman 3.1 a few weeks ago with a heck of a lot of filament. The resolution is great, but I absolutely hate the raft that Axon automatically puts on the print. It also does not have a heated bed and all the filament I have is ABS.
Now I am not sure what exactly I should do with it. Would switching it over to RAMPS 1.4 and adding a heated bed be pretty straight forward? Or would
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