Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
Having a go with TPU now, but I needed to set the print speed very very low as any higher and the filament stuck in the printer feed gears. Looks like it’s going to take a full two days to print one tire.
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Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
Hi Terry, what printer & what settings are you using?
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Wayne
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Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
It’s an ender 3. I need to print at 25mm or the filament sticks in the gears. Temps, nozzle 210, bed 67. I am going to swap for Flexable play tomorrow, so hope that will speed things up a bit.
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Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
Hi Terry,
For TPU try your nozzle at 230 degrees, your bed at 55 degrees &30mm per second. Oh, don’t forget to disable retraction!!!
Think you’ll find it will work a treat
Cheers
Wayne
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For TPU try your nozzle at 230 degrees, your bed at 55 degrees &30mm per second. Oh, don’t forget to disable retraction!!!
Think you’ll find it will work a treat
Cheers
Wayne
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Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
At the moment I'm using Sunlu branded TPU, don't even need to turn the bed heater on (on the down side its quite a bit harder than Rigid Ink, but at least I can print at 30mm/s instead of 15)
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Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
I think Terry was struggling with the feed as the nozzle temp he was using was too low
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Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
Yeah, 230C is the way to go - I used to get away with a little bit less with the Rigid Ink, but it would occasionally jam.
Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
I put the nozzle temp up, but still very slow going. Flexable pla works better for me, slow but better.
Re: Dragon 1.6 scale plastic wheels.
For TPU I also use a .6 nozzle, and increase flow to 110%. I'm printing tires like that and it works great.
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