[Lab] 1.75mm or 3mm for extruding

[Darcy Whyte]

Oh I see

I will see what happens with the 3mm on my cnc.

I am starting to set it up now

I guess I need a controller for the stepper.

Also some material for testing. I suppose I should have ordered that at the
same place I got the extruder. Nutts I forgot.

I suppose I need a some suppliers for that. Plasto-filament.

Darcy




On Jan 21, 2011 9:02 AM, "Andrew Plumb" <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:

No, it allows you to use smaller-diameter nozzles, which in turn gets you
the higher resolution because the filament is smaller to start with.  It's
easier press cold 1.75mm thru a 0.25mm nozzle than starting from 3.0mm.

In theory you can print faster because there's less volume of material to
heat on-the-fly.

Andrew.

If your positioning system isn't up to the job though,

On 2011-01-21, at 8:51 AM, Darcy Whyte wrote: > So you're saying that the
source filament affects...
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