New Nimble announced
We just announced the new Nimble for our Kickstarter campaign.
It is now even lighter, by 15%, down to 28 grams. We also changed the breech loading system to allow one handed operation. It is now a simple close and click.
The whole unit is now smaller and even easier to use. Not bad for an extruder that is not even available yet.
I know, the photo shows the Nimble with no nuts and bolts, but the total weight is including all the nuts and bolts needed.
Lykle
Happy to hear this still moving forward – it looks to improve on the Flex3Ddrive which I’d tried to replicate in the past before lacking the time to dedicate to it.
Thanks.
It took us a long time to create a good extruder. So I know exactly what you mean. 
What mounting options does this have for…say, an E3D v6, etc? I notice you mount it with a plate over a cyclops, but is this something we’re going to have to design a mount for? Are there points on which to fasten the extruder to something?
The Flex3Ddrive uses a Nylon worm drive, because the sliding friction on metal worm drives can cause a lot of wear and tear over time. What material are you using for your worm drive?
We designed the Nimble to use an adapter system.
Standard the Nimble comes with a Groove mount adapter but we will design adapters in case you need something special.
For the Chimera or Cyclops, we have developed an adapter plate, yes and it is available. We will put up a dxf file so you can get your own plate waterjet cut, or print it out yourself.
Other adapters are being worked on and pretty soon we will share a spreadsheet with all the adapters we are working on or have ready.
You can design your own of course is you want, or we design it for you. Simple.
As to the worm drive, we use a self lubricating plastic (POM) that has the strength and slipperyness to handle the work load. We have done a lot of work on this. The gears we are currently using are SLS printed gears and they have held up well, so far. Despite all the hard testing and weird stuff we threw at them. The production gears will be of a lot better quality, so we have no fears about that.
I hope that answers your questions?
Zesty? That’s what I call my chicken…
Hah! Zesti is Greek. It is It means hot.
Lykle
The trick with the shape of this extruder is, we can add stuff to it.
Like the filament sensor, to detect if the filament is moving or not.
Also, I am working on a little brush that mounts instead of the breech block, it cleans the hobbed wheel. This is in cooperation with the garbage shute we build into the Nimble. On the side is a small hole, blow air from a can in there and the filament shavings, if there are any, shoot out the bottom hole.
We have a little clip on holder for a “reverse bowden” that is a ptfe tube to the spool, to absorb the pulling forces of the filament.
So not only is the thing lighter and easier to use than any other extruder (OK, that is my personal belief) it is a lot more adaptable and flexible than any other extruder out there.
Lykle