This is my ‘short bowden’ setup as of a few days ago, it is working well enough I am sure the concept is not a rabbit hole to a worse issue so I am sharing it online. I wanted to remove the weight of extruders from linear motion and have a very short bowden tube. The setup is unique to the build area and effector travel for any printer the concept is applied to. Swingarm length and placement height and bowden length are all relative to a relatively slack tube to all coordinates of the build area in X Y and Z. Much more explanation in the video.
That is one of the most overcomplicated, AWESOME things I have seen done to shorten bowden tubes on a delta…I’m laughing so hard at how awesome it is. Seriously, no sarcasm at all, I love this.
@ThantiK its really not complicated
laughing is ok only if you explain to everyone how a 3 foot bowden is no issue on multiple retractions to print short segments on narrow vertical ‘islands’ on the same print. You made that claim but you never explained how you do it, and look what I had to create!
Awesome. The whole explanation and the solution is actually as simple to understand as the flying extruder is, but I somewhat I like it more.
Lovely solution 