Splicing Filament
Re: Splicing Filament
That's a great looking splice - never tried ABS so your way is probably better. (Isn't that one pretty flexible too?)
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Re: Splicing Filament
The filament is flexible, but the splice... not so much. It will break on the splice if bent too much. Maybe the high temp of the soldering iron damages the plastic and it loses some of its elasticity. I had it set to 800F, next time I'll lower it to 500F
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Re: Splicing Filament
Try my pliers
4 M3 and 1 M4 screw required.
4 M3 and 1 M4 screw required.
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Re: Splicing Filament
Splice was 10" away from the extruder when the job finished. Talk about close!
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Re: Splicing Filament
That's cuttin' it puuuurty close, but i believe the record is something like a quarter of an inch from the top of the filament drive. Who held that one guys?pyronaught wrote:Splice was 10" away from the extruder when the job finished. Talk about close!
Anyway, congrats! (I guarantee if you hadn't spliced it, it would have run out before it finished. That's an immutable law of nature.)
BTW, just ran a little test on the "feeding in" method with PLA, and had excellent results. I took some photos while it was going on - i'll do a write-up for the tips section.
Re: Splicing Filament
That was me. That wasn't always blind luck, I've failed plenty of prints by slurping all the filament off the spool.
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Re: Splicing Filament
Thanks. Pliers have been printed... and my splice survived the printjsc wrote:Try my pliers
4 M3 and 1 M4 screw required.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.