It is to your ERCF. I haven’t seen much of it before and it seems “complicated”.
ahhh…you probably used the exact right word LOL. I will say their build documents were really good. There wasn’t much that I needed to look else where to understand. Also the new YouTube series coming out helped a lot. I ended up passing him up but the most complicated part was the filament blocks and he was right on time with that video.
I will try to get some pics for you here in just a few. I will say its kinda “janky” mounted as of right now. I put this on my largest printer by far. I very much see a table/shelf modification coming next time I am home. Lower the printer down some and give space to mount the ERCF at a better “reachable” height and room for dry filament storage
It seems less compicated after watching that video series.
I think if you follow the standard build it will be a lot easier. And if you have experience printing ABS then it will be even easier. I did neither of those LOL
I want to see pictures of your’s Jonathan. You never know how polished the video versions are. But seeing a working one from someone you know is a strong data point.
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Well mine is all janky AF. So keep in mind this is a very temporary mounting solution lol. And still very much in the tuning phase and I know it will be coming back apart next time I’m home…
Trying out the Filamentalist spool rewinders again. I figured out today that I was loading them wrong. That did help some but so far they are still a little too tight for the ERCF to pull from. I am still not getting as good of a grip on the filament as I should be. I believe that is because the bottom gray parts, what the top 2 parts with the rails and selector cart ride on, are still the original too large prints. I think that is holding the rails a touch higher than they should be for good contact on the top hats from the servo arm. So printing those will be top of my list when I get back home. Everything has to come back apart to change those out so I will be taking yet another look at the filament blocks and making sure I didn’t miss anything that needs further cleanup with a file. Once all of that is ready I’ll throw it all back together yet another time and HOPEFULLY then she will be working smoothly!!
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I also plan to do some further ABS print tuning before I reprint anything else. I want my prints looking like Ryan’s prints lol. Even watching the YouTube videos his are much cleaner than mine came out. So I need to figure that out before I print even more bad parts.
You need a winning lotto ticket…this work thing is really getting in the way of us seeing if we are ever going to try this thing ourselves.
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Yes please!!!
Or you just figure out a way for me to stay home and build machines for you every day to sell “ready to go” lol. If I could be here and make what I make there I would be a real happy man LOL.
Oh and I promise to make them “as built” with no mods LOL
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If you want to try that, we can absolutely work that out.
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We will talk for sure!
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Made another attempt at the sign. Figured out how to fix the file. I actually ended up putting it in prusa slicer to fix it. But I’m sure it can be done in orca as well I just didn’t have the patients to figure it out. Once I fixed it in prusa I saved it as a .3MF and then uploaded it into orca and sliced. This time I was able to do my normal .3mm layer height. I think it came out MUCH better!!
Also here is the fixed file if anyone else building a MMU wants to give it a shot…
We Do This Sign Fixed.zip (110.0 KB)
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Perfect is nice but not perfect fits that sign sooo well.
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LOL that’s where the 2 of them together work well. One showing the mess up that I had to work harder to fix LOL
That looks pretty clean to me. Thanks for posting. Pretty intriguing.
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I’ll say. That’s a heck of a lot better.
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Hi Jon. The build really looks great. I’ve built the filamentist buffers. Where can I find files so that I can eliminate the big buffer arms as I don’t need them anymore.
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The guys on the discord told me where to look lol. If you go to the ERCF GitHub and change to the RC2 branch the files are in there.
These are all the files I used…
8 of these assuming you have 8 gates…
One for each gate…
I think that was everything. If anything is missing just ask lol
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Ooph. More thingies than I thought! I may just keep the arms/buffer wheels on for now. But I’ll take a look later and see what it involves. Thank you!