I’ve been running fixed idler for about 500 hours now and it’s been working amazingly and showing no signs of wear on the bearings or anything. Absolute insane amount of grip too, no slipping on the filament up until it skips
another benefit of fixed idler is that you can set the spur gear tooth mesh to the ideal amount. They have a pitch diameter of 8.5mm. Adding a little for tolerance and 8.6mm between shaft centers seems to be ideal. Optimal gear meshing should be ideal for extrusion quality and wear life.
@@clborrello ah the fixed idler fighter himself. Yep it seems to help with extrusion consistency and reliability especially between different filaments
really glad I found this channel. It’s helping me so much with my own printing. THANKS Not sure I would have ever found that but about shaping the tip of the filament before removing
I love seeing that hollowed out X gantry! Also, thanks for the video. With Orbiter 1.5 I had to properly learn how to tension and it would be a real shame if I Destroyed this nice peace of engineering with too much tension :(
I tried this method and found the right amount of tension but on 1 print, the screw was vibrated loose because there wasn't enough backforce provided by the spring.
I printed a tpu benchy in 5min 😂. If you put too much pressure and try to push more plastic than your hotend can melt, it will twist the filament...but if you run it properly i have no issue
Is there a model I can print to extend the lever so that I can open it manually? I like to do "hotpulls" whenever I change filament. Essentially manually forcing down the filament quickly until I feel a resistance that tells me that cold filament has reached the bottom of the hotend. I then quickly pull it out and it removes 95-99% of any filament left in the hotend. Repeat and it's clean. Thank you for your work, love your videos!
maybe write a g-code at your end script so it will extrude, and then fast retract the filament from the nozzle. Then it is ready for filament change if you would want that next time.