First day of test prints from the short bowden floating extruder setup

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First day of test prints from the short bowden floating extruder setup

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exceptional surface quality!

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Thanks! The aquamarine was .2mm layer and the black pearl was .4mm layer height. I had issues with the black pearl (some kind of powdery residue) on my smaller nozzle, but it goes through the larger nozzle reasonably well.

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Incredible!! What printer are you using??

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It’s a delta that I’ve “winged” Here’s some of the initial build photos

https://plus.google.com/photos/100588352984244566304/albums/6072088333202959393?authkey=CPiDh8fyp-u18gE

I designed the new extruder system from what I liked about Steve Graber’s gigante.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-19ZHS3tc_H8/VKQyN9SAV8I/AAAAAAAAVic/QZqbzR4jFb0/w745-h993-no/IMG_20141231_122819.jpg

I made it lighter and ended up using some thicker surgical tube.

The design is here http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:615563 for that.

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Those prints looks amazing! Now I really want to add a delta to the collection!

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Looks like a printed table cloth in the last shot :slight_smile:

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@Peter_L I bet you’d like this http://basdebruijn.com/2014/07/old-school-hard-core-making/