Duet Gen 3 Teaser
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Bugger. I've spent the last 66 years keeping a low profile. Hardly any pictures of me exist. I don't "do" any social media. No twitter, no Facebook, nothing. But now I have been thrust into the limelight...........
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@deckingman I'd love to get by without facebook etc but I thing my group +/- a few years were the first to go through where socials are expected.
Anyhow you're a blogger!
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@deckingman said in Duet Gen 3 Teaser:
But now I have been thrust into the limelight...........
Now that you are a star, life will never be the same....
Seriously, if you would design it now from scratch, would you do anything differently?
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@zapta said in Duet Gen 3 Teaser:
Seriously, if you would design it now from scratch, would you do anything differently?
Of course - many things. For one thing, I'd pay more attention to fixings when designing parts to reduce the number of different lengths and diameters of bolts and screws. I'd probably make it slightly wider at the base so that it is more stable. I'm not entirely happy with the way the filament reels are mounted because it increases the overall width to the extent that it won't quite fit through a door without taking it apart.
It will continue to "evolve". Now that I have an insulated garage door, I plan to move it out of my spare bedroom, as soon as I can make space for it in the garage. So I'll likely fit retractable wheels or castors to make it easier to move around. Loading filament is a bit of a pain with 5 or 6 reels and I'm not very disciplined at removing it from the printer. So I plan to enclose the reels and fit some sort of dryer/dehumidifier. Or I might enclose the entire thing in a cubicle of some sort. Then I have an old 17" laptop kicking around, which isn't much use. So I plan to hang that on the printer using an arm of some sort. And of course, I have to buy/design/make a better "mixing" hot end......
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I was thinking about your three levels of gantries, (1) hotend, (2) extruder, and (3) counter balance. Theoretically #2 could be fed with only the low frequencies of the movement of #1 and with some lookahead planing. Just to be in the general area. This may also eliminate the need for #3. Also, have you consider having #2 on separate frame/legs than #1, this way it cannot induce vibration to the frame of #1, eliminating #3.
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@zapta If you take a look at my blog you'll see that #3 has no effect on print quality which is just fine. It simply stabilises the printer when running at high speed. If I was starting from scratch, I probably wouldn't bother to add it but having already spent the time and money, there is nothing to gain by removing it.
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@deckingman said in Duet Gen 3 Teaser:
Bugger. I've spent the last 66 years keeping a low profile. Hardly any pictures of me exist. I don't "do" any social media. No twitter, no Facebook, nothing. But now I have been thrust into the limelight...........
Well deserved recognition for having created such an amazing machine!
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Duet and I got another little mention here from about 4:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QRzS1BXy9Y&t=2s
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@deckingman said in Duet Gen 3 Teaser:
from about 4:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QRzS1BXy9Y&t=2s
btw can change the t=2s to t=260s to start at 4:20
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@bearer said in Duet Gen 3 Teaser:
@deckingman said in Duet Gen 3 Teaser:
from about 4:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QRzS1BXy9Y&t=2s
btw can change the t=2s to t=260s to start at 4:20
Oh, that's clever. Thanks.
