Carbon fiber string. Possible ?
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nicholas.seward Wrote:
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> For a standard Simpson it is potentially bad. It
> could possibly destroy the hot end and a few
> plastic pieces. However, if you turned gravity
> around the failure would be no big deal. For a 1
> arm SCARA design that Quentin Harley and I are
> contemplating, the failure would also be no big
> deal. When I get this going I will try to get an
> estimate for the cycles to failure. I can then
> give a recommendation as to how often you need to
> change out strings.
Updated: I agreed about Kevlar braid. And sorry I seem to distracted this thread a bit.
Anyway, Kamermaker use shipping container. Maybe we can design a float raft for leveling a very scalable platform and able to print a whole building while SLS can't.
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nicholas.seward Wrote:
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> For a standard Simpson it is potentially bad. It
> could possibly destroy the hot end and a few
> plastic pieces. However, if you turned gravity
> around the failure would be no big deal. For a 1
> arm SCARA design that Quentin Harley and I are
> contemplating, the failure would also be no big
> deal. When I get this going I will try to get an
> estimate for the cycles to failure. I can then
> give a recommendation as to how often you need to
> change out strings.
Updated: I agreed about Kevlar braid. And sorry I seem to distracted this thread a bit.
Anyway, Kamermaker use shipping container. Maybe we can design a float raft for leveling a very scalable platform and able to print a whole building while SLS can't.