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<\/a><\/p>\nOf all my printers this is the one I’m most satisfied with, mainly because of it’s large build area and speed. It’s also easy to modify.<\/p>\n
I’ve changed a few thing on it, to improve the quality and speed:<\/p>\n
Wider spool holder<\/strong><\/p>\n The on that came with it wouldn’t fit all my different rolls of filament, so I printed out this part from thingiverse.<\/a>\u00a0Basicly just makes it hold wider spools, fit’s perfectly. Make sure you print it will high infill rate, I used 80%.<\/p>\n Aluminium heat bed mount & isolation<\/strong><\/p>\n I used a thin sheet of glava isolation which greatly reduce heatup times, and a aluminium bed mount. The bed mount makes it more rigid as large wood sheets tend to flex. You can find glava or similar rock\/glass isolation at your local hardware store. Makerfarm sells the aluminium bed upgrades. Click here to get it.<\/a><\/p>\n Astrosyn stepper motor dampers<\/strong><\/p>\n Not so easy to see in this picture, but it’s impressive how quiet it became after I mounted these to my X and Y axis motors. Haven’t bothered to install dampers to my Z axis motors yet, since they aren’t running all the time while printing.<\/p>\n I also added washers to all my screws holding the motors in-place, this reduces pressure on the wood pieces. Not sure if this is necessary but I felt the small screw head was drilling it’s way into it.<\/p>\n These <\/a>are the dampers for Nema 17 steppers. Since Astrosyn does’t normally ship to Norway I had to contact them and arrange a deal.<\/p>\n E3D V6 with 0.5mm nozzle<\/strong><\/p>\n This one is a major improvement! Faster print speeds and better quality. My main bottleneck now is the extruder mechanism, when running at extremely high speeds it will slip. I had to cut the extruder fan shroud to make it fit on the e3d, but apart from that it’s a easy installation.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n