Although I already have several things I want to change I plan to assemble it as much as possible before making any changes. I expect to assemble it a few times before working out all the bugs. So far I like how it is coming together and think this is a good compromise between a Sell's Mendel and a Prusa Mendel (Although it has much more in common with the Sell's).
I bought some T-Rex 500 R/C helicopter gears that I was thinking of using for a new extruder design but I think the main gear may be larger than I want. I have some R/C car gears on the way that should be closer to the size of the stock Wade's gears (they may even work on a stock body).
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Did you manage to use heli gears for your extruder? any results? Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteI did not end up using the heli gears. I found some slightly smaller R/C car gears which are working well. I have not been doing very much with RepRap for the last few months but will be getting back into it very soon. I am also planning to start blogging at RepRapBreeding.com instead of here from now on. (I may double post for a little while until people start following there.)
Thanks Nicholas. Could you please post a link to the R/C car gears that are working for you?
ReplyDeleteThe gears are a 72 tooth main gear (Traxxas 4472) with a 14 tooth spur gear (Traxxas 5640). I found them on eBay but they are probably available at most hobby stores.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot.
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