Screwless Heart Gears - Plated
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Published on February 26, 2012
Derived from
Screwless Heart Gears
by emmett
Description
I have plated (and resized) all components of the screwless heat gears (by emmett) so that it can be printed in a single over-night job. STL file is sized for HBP/ABP. This is a work in progress.
Instructions
1 - Make sure your printer can print very well. A runined print means everything is ruined. Also, be sure to center your platform.
2 - Turn on raft - if you go in SF to adjust your setttings, I suggest enlarging the raft so that the parts are anchored to a much larger raft than is typical.
3 - You might want to generate GCode to run slowly! I ran mine at 10 mm/sec. to get better quality. YMMV. Since you're running "overnight", you shouldn't care if it takes a long time to print...
4 - Print. Clean. Assemble.
Note - my first run of this I specified 15 % infill; yet the tops of the gears seemed to be filled at 100% -- my filament parameters were a little off, because there were evidence of it extruding just a little too much plastic, and it ultimately caused the raft to break enough for the parts to start rocking. I "saved" that print with some tape, but the result definitely had some quality/fit issues.
BTW, my job took 7.5 hours.
I'm hoping to tweak it to a point where I can kick it off when I'm going to bed, and have another print ready in the morning.
2 - Turn on raft - if you go in SF to adjust your setttings, I suggest enlarging the raft so that the parts are anchored to a much larger raft than is typical.
3 - You might want to generate GCode to run slowly! I ran mine at 10 mm/sec. to get better quality. YMMV. Since you're running "overnight", you shouldn't care if it takes a long time to print...
4 - Print. Clean. Assemble.
Note - my first run of this I specified 15 % infill; yet the tops of the gears seemed to be filled at 100% -- my filament parameters were a little off, because there were evidence of it extruding just a little too much plastic, and it ultimately caused the raft to break enough for the parts to start rocking. I "saved" that print with some tape, but the result definitely had some quality/fit issues.
BTW, my job took 7.5 hours.
I'm hoping to tweak it to a point where I can kick it off when I'm going to bed, and have another print ready in the morning.
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Mjolnir
on
February 26, 2012
said:
It'd help to tell us what machine and/or platform size this sits on.
Zarquon
on
February 27, 2012
said:
The build plate is about 100x70mm. I made a copy as my first try at the heart gears. It only took my prusa a little over 2 hours to print this plate
It would also help if toybuilder would include the scale these are from the original. I broke a pin on my first try at spinning it and had to make a spare.
License
Screwless Heart Gears - Plated by toybuilder is licensed under the Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike license.
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