What’s the slowest speed that a person could run a Makerbot Replicator 2 at?
I’m hoping I can get a quality print, and since time doesn’t matter to me so much, it could take as long as it needs to.
Speed doesn’t seem to be the high order bit for my replicator, filament, temperature, and extruder settings all have a bigger impact. One of the issues is that the plastic in the previous layer has to be hot enough for the plastic in the next layer to adhere to it. Once you get to the point where you’re not getting back to the plastic in time, you are going too slow.
@Chuck_McManis Have you had it go too slow?
You can, or at least should be able to, make it run as slow as you wanted. Down to fractions of a millimeter per second if that’s what you really wanted. But there’s going to be a sweet spot where you’re going slow enough that you have zero overshoot, little to no vibration, and yet you’re still going fast enough that your nozzle isn’t keeping the plastic beneath it too hot.
Normal print speeds should be relatively close to that point, but if you’re consistently seeing issues with overshoot you could turn it down 10-20% and see if that fixes it.
These machines can run very slow, but I wouldn’t go below 10mm/s without trying different temperatures and other options first. 10 is slow unless it’s an exotic material and particularly, flexible material.