Printing Flex Filament with the Flashforge

[Geoff]

I'm bareing I'm bareing :-)

Flashforge dead.

I have no comments right now, I am in mourning.

[Roxy]

Flashforge dead.

I have no comments right now, I am in mourning.

This is the same Flashforge that the company would not stand behind? Good riddance!

[Geoff]

This is the same Flashforge that the company would not stand behind? Good riddance!

Yep..

BUT it's all good

Besides the prusa... I took a good look at my flashforge and thought hang on.. 2 dead steppers, that means I have 3 working ones.. and a spare off the old extruder.. So I shopped around today and got myself a delta kossel mini too to play around with.

The idea was to have the Flashforge as a spare, but now thats gone so I need another back up or two. If the kossel mini is as easy to build as it looks, i will build 2!

[Assaf]

Yep..

BUT it's all good

Besides the prusa... I took a good look at my flashforge and thought hang on.. 2 dead steppers, that means I have 3 working ones.. and a spare off the old extruder.. So I shopped around today and got myself a delta kossel mini too to play around with.

The idea was to have the Flashforge as a spare, but now thats gone so I need another back up or two. If the kossel mini is as easy to build as it looks, i will build 2!

Welcome to the world of the delta printers have a look at the Rostock Max of SeeMeCNC, not so easy to build for a first printer but after your mini kossel...

[Geoff]

Welcome to the world of the delta printers have a look at the Rostock Max of SeeMeCNC, not so easy to build for a first printer but after your mini kossel...

Built 3 now I have almost finished designing my own actually, I ended up making 2 full delta towers and selling those, and after making that I realized that I could make it in even less parts, and simpler. So I have done away with the linear rails (mainly to lower cost) and a new top and bottom frames, and carriages etc.. I think for anyone actually keen on making their own printer, kossel is like a magic solution I found... no real headaches of re-designing parts by changing printer size etc instead, just recalculating your firmware values. I love the fact you can just about build them any way you like as long as you follow the general rules. Linear rails, V rollers... so many different options. I want to eliminate the rails altogether and increase the diameter of the machine without the head extending outside the print area.