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  1. Cryoine

    POS is Alive! It's Alive!

    all the parts in grey are PETG and the blue and purple ABS i also scale everything up by about 0.3 - 0.6% that gives me good results too
  2. Cryoine

    POS is Alive! It's Alive!

    with the ABS i print at 100C bed temperature though 80C should be good, but more important than that was to disable print cooling, we has massive issues with that when we did this then that sorted that problem out
  3. Cryoine

    POS is Alive! It's Alive!

    any printer that has an autolevel feature is a nice quality of live improvement lol, when it comes to material though ABS, PETG probably nylon are your best bets ABS is similar to PLA but can survive a higher temperature range PETG is a very tough and somewhat flexible plastic, good abrasion...
  4. Cryoine

    It appears I've broken my printer...

    if you are able to change the driver chip, then you need to ensure that vref is set before you use it on the motor
  5. Cryoine

    It appears I've broken my printer...

    It depends and I don't have much long term data on this, if there is very little heat and slight compression then it would last a really long time, I wouldnt use it for o-rings though as the cross sectional area is round so the layers arent the best but flat gaskets are fair game. I had...
  6. Cryoine

    Printing with nylon filament

    we have success with our ultimaker printers and nylon, what settings are you using to print? also what size filament are u running? we run with glue stick on the bed glass bed 250C nozzle temp 255C for first layer 60C bed temp thermal settings also print cooling and 2-5mm brim helps to keep...
  7. Cryoine

    It appears I've broken my printer...

    don't do this, some of these NEMA 17 motors dont operate at such a high voltage, some of them run on 3.4V, the driver chip that runs the motor in some cases can accept up to 48V, the principle is sound though you can use a 3V low current source
  8. Cryoine

    It appears I've broken my printer...

    hey hey, Im not sure how i missed this post lol Direct Feed printers usually have the advantage with some materials in particular TPU, TPU is good for printing seals and spacers that need a bit of squish and oil resistance, however in filament form it is super flexible so the drive of the...
  9. Cryoine

    ML7 Lathe

    so there will be updates soon
  10. Cryoine

    Garvin No12 Plain Mill

    i tracked down this so 1902 is the date
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