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best duel extruder?

fatesalign

best duel extruder?
May 15, 2015 09:15AM

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Hello everyone. I'm in the market for a great duel extruder. And I was curious of your thoughts. I'm looking at the chimera, but I'm not sure if there are better options.

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epicepee

Re: best duel extruder?
May 15, 2015 04:55PM

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Two E3D-lite6's? Or the Kraken?

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fatesalign

Re: best duel extruder?
May 15, 2015 05:07PM

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I just want to find the best plug and play duel extruder around.

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fatesalign

Re: best duel extruder?
May 16, 2015 12:21PM

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Anyone else?

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epicepee

Re: best duel extruder?
May 19, 2015 05:16PM

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Do you want an extruder (pushes filament) or a hotend (melts filament)? For the extruder, you have a variety of options, just look on Yeggi. For the hotend, I'd recommend a Chimaera or a pair ov e3d-lite6's.

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fatesalign

Re: best duel extruder?
May 19, 2015 05:33PM

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epicepee
Do you want an extruder (pushes filament) or a hotend (melts filament)? For the extruder, you have a variety of options, just look on Yeggi. For the hotend, I'd recommend a Chimaera or a pair ov e3d-lite6's.

My mistake. Hot end. The chimera looks really cool, but someone said one time that's it's just like a trial for e3d, so it isn't all that reliable.

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cristian

Re: best duel extruder?
May 19, 2015 05:37PM

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Then I'll pose a naive question, since I am interested in dual extrusion but I have 0 experience in this respect: why a dual extruder instead of two (good) single extruders?

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dc42

Re: best duel extruder?
May 19, 2015 06:08PM

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Then I'll pose a naive question, since I am interested in dual extrusion but I have 0 experience in this respect: why a dual extruder instead of two (good) single extruders?

That is essentially what I use (2 separate hot ends), except I use a single heatsink to cool the upper ends of both nozzles. See my blog for details.

Btw unless you have a mechanism to retract the non-printing nozzle, it helps to have quite a large separation between the nozzles.

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fatesalign

Re: best duel extruder?
May 19, 2015 08:36PM

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I would just think it's easier and them being closer together let's them go further to the opposite side.

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thetazzbot

Re: best duel extruder?
May 20, 2015 12:01PM

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Separate hotends means separate heat controls. Could be useful....

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fatesalign

Re: best duel extruder?
May 20, 2015 12:08PM

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thetazzbot
Separate hotends means separate heat controls. Could be useful....

You have separate heat controls with a duel hotend I'm sure. Otherwise, you can't use it for support material.