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Printing with pellets

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:52 am
by barry99705

Re: Printing with pellets

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:46 am
by Captain Starfish
Forgive my cynicism, but I've seen these promises before with John Buford and Makibox which originally was going to be a pellet printer, then became a filament printer with a built-in filament extruder, then became a filament printer with an optional filament extruder, then became a sodden mess of tears and regret.

Looks great but I'll hold off on the bunting, champagne and fireworks until I see one running with a few reviews, thanks.

Re: Printing with pellets

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:03 am
by Jimustanguitar
Pricey... I'd rather buy two or three more Rostocks and a filastruder :)

Re: Printing with pellets

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:23 am
by Eric
They're able to do it because they have a motionless extruder, so the mass of the extruding mechanism isn't an issue. However, their platform moves in all three dimensions, which means mass/motion effects on the object being printed may be an issue in some cases. The price is the real killer, since the filastruder gets basically the same result from any other printer.

Re: Printing with pellets

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:39 pm
by teoman
They have used a PEI surface ;)