Yep, we are looking into it. Thanks. The volume is getting such that it is relevant to consider other means of shipping. Lykleby Lykle - General
Oh man that brings back good memories! Thanks for that! Brings me back to when I was building this: Richard, have your Nimbles arrived now? Hope you have seen the review Michael posted of it? Let me know if they have or haven't, then I can chase them up. Lykleby Lykle - General
Alternatively, you can make the model so that the nuts are enclosed. Print until the layers are high enough to cover the nuts, pause, insert nuts, continue printing. Captive nuts are so much more secure. Lykleby Lykle - General
Happy days, we have our first official review and a few customer comments. A review by Michael Hackney no less. On his blog Sublime Layers He is happy with the Nimble and ordered a Dual for his Chimera/Cyclops hot end as well. It is good to see the Nimble finally in customers hands and to hear how well it performs. The nicest comment I got back was from Tomas: "Thanks again for a fantastic prby Lykle - For Sale
Quotereifsnyderb Given that the induction heater requires more electronics, people aren't going to want to pay for it, either. If there is a clear benefit sure they will. And the costs can come down by quite a bit after the initial experimentation. As to the clones, that should not be a reason to stop developing. E3D do it very successfully. Yes they are cloned, but I will still buy original. Uby Lykle - General
Cable driven setup is when you use a Remote Direct Drive (RDD) The RDD leaves the stepper mounted on the printer frame somewhere and a drive cable then powers the extruder part mounted directly on the effector or print head. This makes sure the extruder part is as light as possible, in the Nimble case less than 27 grams, while you still have a direct driven extruder. Basically, you have all theby Lykle - Delta Machines
Yes we used Shapeways for a lot of our prototyping when developing the Nimble. It is a good resource to use. Looking forward to the results of our work. Lykleby Lykle - General
Hey Tomas, Nice to see the flexible vase finally being printed. Happy with the fact that you are happy with the Nimble. Thank you for the great photo's. Also, I like the fact that you are using the 1730 hot end. It had kind of slipped my mind, so it was good to get reminded. Nice to see that the flexibility of the Nimble makes it possible to fit any hot end. One more thing that can help you wby Lykle - Delta Machines
Wow, interesting design. Looking very stylish and well shaped, so that is a win already. Any idea when you will be able to print? Really looking forward to see the results of this. Lykleby Lykle - General
You should have it within a week. But of course you will get the tracking number so you will know exactly where it is and when it will arrive. Looking forward to some nice photos of your setup, show off those Nimbles! Lykleby Lykle - General
I can imagine. And I am anxious to see the results. Talking about results, the first Nimble is in the hands of a customer. Nice post about it: Shipping yours on Monday. Lykleby Lykle - General
Nice idea! Will not necessarily make it lighter, but will make it better to control. And generating the heat exactly where we need it is perfect. I can see a whole range of experiments opening up, like, what is the optimal distance from the nozzle tip to put the heat. Things that are not possible with a heating element. Composite nozzles, made of different materials to focus the heat and the cby Lykle - General
Hi Richard, No, I went to visit family, back in Cyprus now. Brian will ship, he has been stuffing boxes all weekend in prep for the final push to ship it all. Nice work! Like the way you narrowed it down to this. But 24 magnets? wow! I know what you mean with the PTFE. There is no good way to do it after the Nimble, as you will want to still be able to print flexible material. Putting it abovby Lykle - General
Nice work Richard! Love the way you managed to get it into a simple clean package. What are the issues you are still working on? Do you want me to modify the adapter to make the box fit in? Your constraint is about to be lifted as your Nimbles will be arriving within a week or so. All orders will be shipped by the end of week 21. Can't wait to see it all in operation and printing for you. Lyklby Lykle - General
Finally found the time to test this idea properly. Here I am using the Nimble to transmit the tap force from the hot end to the sensor sitting directly underneath the back of the Nimble. I am seeing a perfect tap signal in the scope, all I need to do now is mount to to the printer with the sensor board. But happy that so far it works. Now on to the sensor integration for the Black Widow and sby Lykle - General
@drmaestro 1 High temp Nimble. Yes we were asked to look into making a Nimble for a high temp enclosure environment. 80C and up. We can do it. 2 Connection with the hot end is done in various ways depending on the printer. The Nimble comes standard with a Groove mount adapter. This is how I use the Nimble on my V6. See second photo here. If needed, we will design an adapter for you, free of chaby Lykle - General
I have the DuetWifi and the panel, but I only use the panel about 5% of the time. Usually it is my laptop and every now and then my phone when I am not in the office. In hindsight I would not have needed to buy the panel. But the few times that I needed it, it was great it was there. For instance, I had shut down my laptop and realised I had not loaded the correct filament. Was quick to stop thby Lykle - General
First of all, I like these kind of posts as they ask for honest opinions and facts. I don't want a mud fight either and will never put a competitor down, so I will only talk about the Nimble. That keeps it clean. I can tell you exactly where and why we feel the Nimble is better, but I would prefer to have an independent reviewer comment on it. So in that respect you will have to wait a little wby Lykle - General
Testing the un-drilled ones is at a standstill at the moment. All my time is spent on getting the Nimble produced. But I recently received the new board and a DIY kit for a scope, so perhaps in a few weeks time I can relax a little and work on it. I am pretty sure the initial idea will work, just need time to test it out. The 20 mm disks fit neatly under the main cylinder of the Nimble. Simpleby Lykle - General
You know, even though I have only played a tiny part in all of this, it still gives me great pleasure to see this develop and become useful. There is a lot of cooperation and sharing of ideas, methods and tests. I simply love it. So, Leadinglights, Moriquendi and DjDemonD, my compliments to you guys for a job well done and still doing.by Lykle - General
Oh darn! I saw a Youtube video of a guy who had a nice little device that welded filaments together. Came out perfectly smooth. But I cannot find it again. Piffle!by Lykle - General
Sounds like you need to do a re-calibration of your extruder and the distances it actually extrudes. If it starts to print better at 80% extrusion, it points to calibration issues.by Lykle - General
The one solution that would help you to avoid the second nozzle scratching is the autolift hot end by D3DGlass or so. There the inactive nozzle is retracted automatically when the pressure of the filament is removed by retracting the filament. That way you avoid a low nozzle scraping. They also have a way to set the height of the nozzles correctly. And of course I warmly support your idea of usby Lykle - General
I think it is mainly aimed at Cartesian printers, so weight is a little bit less of a factor. (I said a little bit!) So it was perhaps not a hot issue. The biggest advantage I see is the reduction in height. That will generate more printable height is a lot of cases. You almost gain the full height of the original V6 heat sink. I like compact designs, love to manage to squeeze a lot of functionby Lykle - General
I use the Duet WiFi, so my opinion is based only on using that one board. Features? To be honest, I think the Duet is better, for ease of use. Upload the file and print. No need for cables, octoprint or anything else. What makes the Duet the ultimate board for me is the support. David and Tony are fast to respond, know what they are talking about and will help if they can. Really really impressby Lykle - General
This is the air ring I made. It uses a 4 mm alu tube that I simply bent into shape with my hands. Every now and then I had to squeeze the tube with some pliers when there was a little kink starting. Then I squashed the whole ring in a vice to lower the profile (3.15 mm) and simply drilled the 1.5 mm holes. It now fits under my V6 heatblock around the nozzle. It will also still fit with the socby Lykle - General
Ignoring the chance to plug my own product here, as that seems to piss some people off. There are two things that struck me with the Aero. 1 In the announcement video they show their own product wobbling like crazy. The normal Titan and normal V6. I know it is exaggerated, but still. Funny. 2 I love the modular approach E3D use on everything. It simply makes sense. About part cooling fans etby Lykle - General
Shit, one more thing I need to get and test! It never stops doesn't it?by Lykle - General
So nice to see this thing in customer hands. And a happy customer as well. Nice!by Lykle - General
Quick answer on the last question. I use a DuetWifi and that code base is RRF (RepRap Firmware) It is not Merlin. There are 2 reasons why I use the Duet Wifi and will continue to do so. 1 It is a fantastic board, well developed and oh so smooth. My printer has never been this quiet and I did get a jump in print quality. 2 The support is just as good as the board if not better. As for the buiby Lykle - General