I've finally cracked the Taulman Bridge I had hanging around.

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I’ve finally cracked the Taulman Bridge I had hanging around. It’s printing really well on hairspray coated glass at 50c and Nozzle at 255. Images below are printed at 30mm/s at 0.28mm height with a 5 loop 3 layer brim.

I’m currently printing out a set of 8mm Nylon Bushings for the FB2020 plus just to sate my curiosity of using Nylon Bushings over standard bearings.

I’m using the 9mm inner diameter model from http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:24990. Due to the nylon shrinkage it works out dead on with no slop on the rods.

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would love to hear how they work out, i’m trying to figure out if to try this or get some cheap graphite bushings from aliexpress

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@Tom_Keidar - Im going to drop the XY gantry later and insert them. I’ll update once I’ve run a few prints off.

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what nozzle diameter did you print it with?

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@Daniel_F 0.4 mm. 100% infill. 2 perimeters 0.4 extrusion width

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I’ve been kicking around switching to bushings like this. If I have some extra nylon around I’ll try it

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My bushing failed (printed with 106taulman nylon), but makes a great housing for igus plastic bearings, still prints using it, I’d go with tribofilament from igus for these bearings

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At almost £70 with shipping for 250g of filament for the Tribo-Filament, I’ll give that a pass.

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Ooh, maybe I should print some of these out in bridge.

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I’m trying bridge soon as well. Hopefully they will work well.