MakiBox A6 - Keeping the Junk in the Trunk
2022-03-10 20:59 by Jonathan Buford (comments: 0)
MakiBox A6 - Keeping the Junk in the Trunk
One part of the design for the MakiBox that hadn't been detailed before was exactly how we transported material from the drive to the extruder.
It was always the thought to use a small Teflon tube to guide the material, but how to keep it within the envelope of the box was something of a question.Two ways were obvious: use a rotating right angle joint and then fix the guide tube somewhere in the frame to allow for the tube to sweep as it needs to flex during the movement, or use a fixed right angle bend coming off the extruder and then have the tube slide through a guide somewhere and have a coil of tube that allows for the movement.
It ends up that the first solution, which I tended to prefer, is pretty simple to accomplish. I was mostly worried about the rotating joint. Using Teflon tube and a bored out M3 screw to anchor it created this joint for free. Bingo!
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Thanks, PCBs are just a bump. There is usually at least something that pops up like that for any production preparation.
Ok... the wait could be easier for me than for the others... Ultimaker@home ftw.
Cheers,
Florian
Read up on it here:https://plus.google.com/116416453568555193309/posts/VRCgpXPW1y9
Good luck with the PCBs.