Change your printers!

I thnk you should start putting fans by the extruders and heating elements like most 3d printers. You didn't do that on the portable brief case on and the heating element fried pretty quickly. Just a suggestion.

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colecago over 13 years ago +1

I thought the fans were to cool the material faster? You can control the heat of the element by not putting as much current through it and it will cool down itself.

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colecago over 13 years ago

I thought the fans were to cool the material faster? You can control the heat of the element by not putting as much current through it and it will cool down itself.
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colecago over 13 years ago

I thought the fans were to cool the material faster? You can control the heat of the element by not putting as much current through it and it will cool down itself.
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evan.stoddard over 13 years ago in reply to colecago

Actually you may be right, but either way the brief case printer that he built wasn't built to well because about 3 days after I got it the heating element fried. Plus the rails the axis were on weren't straight. There was little support for the z axis and all the connectors weren't clamped to the wires. It pretty much fell apart. Luckily I have some engineering friends that were able to fix it up and redesign it. I'm hoping to check out his printer that he built with printrbot though. I gotta get 1199 dollars first. I'm a sophomore in hs and have no time for a job anymore with my work load.
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