Printing Flex Filament with the Flashforge

[rovino]

ahh this is bummer news. Ive had a FF dreamer for a little over a month.. Ive been pretty happy with the results overall, its my first printer. And although it has a "looks like its made cheap" quality to it. Ive been over all happy with PLA and ABS prints. I actually prefer abs.. just looks nicer imo.. But I digress.. I wanted to try some ninja flex and bought a spool and as you can guess could not get it to work. come to find out its my spring loaded feeders.. gah.. I shant give up!! 8)

[Roxy]

I wanted to try some ninja flex and bought a spool and as you can guess could not get it to work. come to find out its my spring loaded feeders.. gah.. I shant give up!! 8)

You shouldn't be using one of those spring loaded feeders anyway! I think the Thingiverse people grabbed somebody's design and patented it. You probably owe them money for the license infringement.

[Geoff]

You shouldn't be using one of those spring loaded feeders anyway! I think the Thingiverse people grabbed somebody's design and patented it. You probably owe them money for the license infringement.

I was sure I put a gigantic colour picture up on the first page.....

Anyway, 3D printers do not have a limitation.

Whatever it can't do, you can make it do. Whatever it doesn't have, you can make for it.

I am not sure how the Dreamer extruder works, but seeing it's age it probably is not a lot different to a flashforge X or Pro,
So you need to go and find a DIRECT DRIVE BOWDEN EXTRUDER, print it out and make the conversion.

[rovino]

You shouldn't be using one of those spring loaded feeders anyway! I think the Thingiverse people grabbed somebody's design and patented it. You probably owe them money for the license infringement.

not sure what this means... its the feed mechanism that came with the dreamers dual extruders.

[Roxy]

I'm just causing trouble. Its a smart a$$ comment about what that corporate chain is doing with intellectual property. Of course there are two sides to the story... But this side makes the most sense to me:

http://traverseda.wordpress.com/2014...munity-design/

[Geoff]

I'm just causing trouble. Its a smart a$$ comment about what that corporate chain is doing with intellectual property. Of course there are two sides to the story... But this side makes the most sense to me:

http://traverseda.wordpress.com/2014...munity-design/

Lol I know, and had I had an extra ale or two in me, I probably would have joined in succession