We are building a big size 3d printer (a university project).

What are the parts you need such a printer for?

Forgot to tag in +Peter van der Walt​ on the previous Openbuilds team tag

@Alex_Krause The concrete bit I started with had rather shallow flutes. I hand ground the flutes progressively deeper towards the start of the feed.

When printing that large, I wonder if you could use built supports covered with PTFE, to support large flat bridges? Might need some glue stick. :wink:

The auger bit is going to give you poor flow rate control compared to a proper extrusion screw, but depending on what you’re trying to do, that may be ok.

may i ask of what size of bead or regrind can used with this or do the plastic have grind fine like coffee grown… ricklanden@juno.com / makerspace 757 of hampton roads virginia usa

Are there other open designs out there? I’ll build em all to try!

@Zviad_Sulaberidze Well done! I was working on a pellet extruder last year, but I got side-tracked with other projects. Are you planing on releasing the design?

yes, as soon as I get it working, I will put design

Where can we follow progress on this build very interesting

here, probably, I will put a progress here, time to times

@Robert_Rapplean1 screw speed versus nozzle backpressure. For a particular nozzle size, material, and temp, you can associate screw RPM with a particular flow rate. It’s actually much like the old RPM-based DC motor extruders before 5D was a thing. Or you can ignore all that and just treat the screw like an extruder with a wacky e-steps value, but you typically end up with crap volume control if you do that. (There’s a reason why non-spiral-vase hobbyist pellet prints usually look crummy.)