Ceramic Extrusion
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Release status: Experimental
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This page describes the research done by Unfold on extruding ceramic materials with a RepRap. The development platform used is a Bits from Bytes Rapman so all extruder cad files are designed for this machine or machine independent. The CAD files or general principles should be easily adaptable to Mendel or other machines. This page describes experiments with various types of paste extruders, ceramic clay recipes and other related topics. We keep a blog about progress on ceramic 3d printing and other topics at [unfoldfab.blogspot.com].
Contents
Forum thread
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?180,21047
Status
Experimental, documentation under construction, in fact I just lost half of my edits :(
Extruders
Claystruder 0.1 (Stepper Driven Plunger)
This design never left the drawing board but was based on the principle of a plunger being driven down a syringe barrel using a (stepper) motor. This can be done either with an expensive linear stepper engine like on the Fab@Home Model 1 Syringe Tool or with a more standard rotational stepper. Examples of the later are the Fab@Home Model 2 Syringe Tool, a very early Syringe Pump Prototype by Adrian Bowyer, Zach Hoeken's Frostruder MK1 or Viktor's (VMX) Syringe Tool
Claystruder 1.0 (Time-Pressure Valve)
Retyping...
Claystruder 2.0 (Auger Valve)
This is the current head under development and not based on previous RepRap developments, the aim is to solve some of the issues observed during extensive testing of v1.0.
Print Materials
Preparing Clay
Filling a syringe
Porcelain
Images
Notes
- designboom: "unfold and tim knapen: l'artisan electronique" "Z33 art centre in hasselt, belgium ... on show until may 30, 2010. the installation enables exhibit visitors to make their own forms using the device."
