Ian -
nice that this topic was already raised; saves me some typing :). Question relating precisely to this thread, which is do you see any hurdles presented by trying to commission a diamond hotend on a delta? Particularly weight, influence of effector angle caused by torques imparted by the Bowden tubes which will need to follow along with effector. I guess I'm trying to ask why you haven't used a delta for your awesome work. Do you anticipate problems or challenges due to the kinematics of the machine?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
I know very little about Deltas so probably won't be much help. I'd guess you've already summed up the issues - "weight, influence of effector angle caused by torques imparted by the Bowden tubes". I doubt you'd be able to get the extruders as close to the hot end as I have managed on my corexy with separate extruder gantry so you'd likely have long Bowden tubes. That might help in that they would be less likely to pull the effector out of alignment. I'd imagine that a Delta would be much more sensitive to the weight of the hot end than my CoreXY and the Diamond assembly alone is about 250gms.
Ian