Filament extruder machine developement

need more inputs from experience user and makers, such as ideal price, complete assembly, in kit form,
in lose component, horizontal or verticle etc.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2015 02:53AM by [email protected].

Hi,

AFAIR, the most inportant point is filament cooling and spooling,
to get a constant filament density and diameter.
It's not as simple at it seems.

I was interested by the past and I saw a lot of videos and tutorials.
I noticed that filament machine builders,
still have commercial spools on the desktop,
even a long time after their build.
Maybe the process is not as cheap, or too long,
or the filament's quality is not as good as expected.

Any honnest feedback will be appreciated indeed.

Another thought, some manufacturer's filament quality
is not realy good even with regulated heavy filament winding machines
between $15.000 and $30.000.
Looking at those closed machines,
it looks like difficult to reach the same quality
with a two planks machine laying on our desktop corner.

++JM

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2015 03:32AM by J-Max.

A cheap filament grinder with varying filament diameter could still be useful with a precise filament sensor on the printer.
-Olaf

Here is the completed mechanical parts

It's a simple design with minimium parts, small footprint