Folgertech FT5 Duet Upgrade
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Picked up an old Folgertech FT5 a while ago. Finally got round to finishing the upgrade. Has many of the 713maker cnc upgraded mounts and brackets. Swapped out the old controller which was running Marlin with a Duet 6HC, Roto Toolboard, Microswiss NG extruder with a revo nozzle and a Dyze Design Horizon Z probe.
It's not a fast printer but print quality seems good, probably needs a little tuning to get the best out of it.
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@bug2k22 That looks like it's begging for a bit of mass reduction on the X axis and X carriage, perhaps a swap to CoreXY, which would make it faster! Very tidy wiring, nice work.
Ian
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Yes, it's not the lightest, I did need to make up an extra adapter bracket to use the horizon strain gause z probe which added a little weight to the print head assembly. I see there are a few that have done corexy conversions on these printers. Besides slightly faster print speeds are there any other advantages to running corexy?
I did use one of the high flow 0.4 revo nozzles which seems to easily manage 20mm3/s+ with pla, extrusion speed isn't going to be the limiting factor on this.
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one of the advantages of CoreXY is that the motors are static for both axes so you get right of the flying X motor. You pay for that with longer belt runs and a bit more challenging belt tension tuning.
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its just begging to be modded to be a corexy
