heinzAlways wanted to mount direct drives to my diamond hotend.
This printer design allows for some heavy toolheads, so I gave it a try.
I used an original 5er diamond hotend with heatsinks from an Ender 3.
They are cheaper and fit well without any lathing down (like the original E3D style ones)
and let you choose your own heatbreak. (again, the original heatsinks have integrated heatbreaks
and the bowden tube is supposed to go completely down to the nozzle.)
Now that it's done and I've printed some, the whole assembly (2kg) seems a bit unwieldy,
so I will probably revert back to Bowden.
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Wow! Looks great. What kind of color separation do you get? Any chance you'll try CMYK+W? Is the printer able to completely swing around? Maybe this could host a purge bucket/wiper dangling off the side?
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I tried separated CYMKW here https://www.instagram.com/p/CIF02vZjTjn/
But using different primaries/spot colors than CMYKW gives nice results, too.
Printer can completely swing around, but since you move the bed and not the printhead, you would have to mount a purge bucket opposite of the bed and let it rotate in parallel to the bed. Would work I think, but using a diamond hotend with its small meltzone you can mostly get away with purging to infill or shift the color definitions in the G-code.
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