Dual Extrusion with (mostly) stock parts
Posted: July 8th, 2017, 10:38 am
I had a bunch of left over parts from my recent build of 3DP-11s thanks to upgrading the hotends on two of them to E3D V6s.
I was about to throw all the parts in a box, but started messing around with them, and realized that it would be fairly straightforward to setup a dual-extrusion head using nearly all stock parts if I switched the extrusion to a Bowden (which I found very easy to do on my first Hictop). I just needed to drill two holes in the X-carriage and print the Bowden adapter blocks.
This is really just for fun (I have a FFCP for dual extrusion purposes), and the leveling of the nozzles would certainly be a bit of a pain. However, it is pretty much just a drop in of the existing carriage along with adding the extra wiring. Firmware was quite easy to setup (E1 MOSFET is pin 7 on MKS board, in case anyone is searching for it).
I was about to throw all the parts in a box, but started messing around with them, and realized that it would be fairly straightforward to setup a dual-extrusion head using nearly all stock parts if I switched the extrusion to a Bowden (which I found very easy to do on my first Hictop). I just needed to drill two holes in the X-carriage and print the Bowden adapter blocks.
This is really just for fun (I have a FFCP for dual extrusion purposes), and the leveling of the nozzles would certainly be a bit of a pain. However, it is pretty much just a drop in of the existing carriage along with adding the extra wiring. Firmware was quite easy to setup (E1 MOSFET is pin 7 on MKS board, in case anyone is searching for it).