And finally printed the space wrench.

Gordon_Broom · February 9, 2015, 4:52am

And finally printed the space wrench. Had to replace the idler in my extruder, then upgraded the hotend from a MakerGear to a J-head, added the heated bed, and then changed filament because I ran out of natural PLA.

Justin_Nesselrotte · February 9, 2015, 6:17am

Drumrollll… Does it work?

Gordon_Broom · February 9, 2015, 6:54am

It ratchets. Haven’t tried a socket yet, snapped the drive off of the previous attempts trying to free their mechanisms, so I’m a little gunshy.

Brook_Drumm · February 9, 2015, 7:25am

It’s a tough print but we need tough prints to force us to dial in our machines. Well done!

Aaron_Birenboim · February 9, 2015, 3:38pm

works with a regular socket… but I did a printed one for demos http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:655945

Michael_Hixenbaugh · February 10, 2015, 4:45am

Now if you could just attempt your 3D print in zero-gravity

American_3D_Printing · February 12, 2015, 11:37pm

We gave up after about our 4th or 5th try on a Makerbot 5th Gen. The ratcheting mechanism fuses during the build. We tried fiddling with the JSON file to reduce the extrusion width but even that didn’t work.