Robert Oakley
R&D intern at re:3D
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Pellet Extruder Update 8/10
It has been a busy summer here at re:3D HQ wrenching away on the pellet extruder. The prototype we highlighted in the last update has been finished and has been printing for the past few weeks. Thi...
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Robert Oakley commented,
Wanted to post another update on the pellet extruder. We have been hard at working getting a new extruder design made and refined for testing. This disign should be able to address the problems fou...
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Gigabot and ULTEM
If you follow any sort of printing news or community you will know ULTEM is not an easy plastic to print with. You have to have both high bed and nozzle temperatures as well as a special bed surfac...
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Pellet Extruder Updates
There have been quite a few update since our last posting about the pellet extruder. For starter as you can see the pellet extruder has a new home here on the re:3D forums where we will be posing f...
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Pellet Extruder: Questions for the Community
Hello everyone, If you did not know yet, re:3D had been hard at work on designing a pellet extruder for our printing platform. we already have a working prototype, which we have been tuning and per...
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Robert Oakley commented,
Over the past few weeks we have made huge leaps and bounds. We have gotten a rough first revision done of an actual extruder on the bot and have gotten it printing. to do this we had to create a wh...
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Robert Oakley commented,
We have had our nose to the grindstone for the past few week testing and getting new designs ready. There has been a major shift to a new screw. we have gone with a smaller diameter screw, that has...
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The New Worlds Largest Hairy Lion Print
There has been a kind of weird competition over who can print models the biggest now that 3D printers are getting bigger. One of the most recent models that this is happening with is The Hairy Lion...
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Robert Oakley commented,
we have been hard at work on the pellet extruder. over the past week we have been doing testing on our current in house pellet extruders to test torque and help us pick the proper motor for the job...
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Printing With Pellets
We have started work on a pellet extruder for our printers, with the end goal being able to print from trash plastic. We will be periodically updating this thread and would love to answer any quest...