Taulman Bridge and the Easystruder
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 4:12 pm
I finally got around to playing with the Taulman bridge I ordered.
Quick warning, the filament is oversized, 1.80 nominally by my measurement, this was pretty apparent when I tried to push the filament through my easystruder, there was a lot of resistance, I tried to print it anyway, with somewhat predictable results. My first thought was the issue was the Bowden cable, but after pulling the filament out and pushing it through by hand it became apparent the issue was actually a combination of the plastic guide in the molded piece of the easystruder, and a slight misalignment between that and the aluminum bowden adapter (mine appears to have been drilled slightly off center).
Short version is I ran a 2.5mm drill bit through both the molding and the aluminum bowden adapter, and all is well printing Bridge, which seems to behave pretty much as advertised.
Now I have a very early easystruder, so the molding could have changed and YMMV.
Quick warning, the filament is oversized, 1.80 nominally by my measurement, this was pretty apparent when I tried to push the filament through my easystruder, there was a lot of resistance, I tried to print it anyway, with somewhat predictable results. My first thought was the issue was the Bowden cable, but after pulling the filament out and pushing it through by hand it became apparent the issue was actually a combination of the plastic guide in the molded piece of the easystruder, and a slight misalignment between that and the aluminum bowden adapter (mine appears to have been drilled slightly off center).
Short version is I ran a 2.5mm drill bit through both the molding and the aluminum bowden adapter, and all is well printing Bridge, which seems to behave pretty much as advertised.
Now I have a very early easystruder, so the molding could have changed and YMMV.