vogon

the evil "Website Boy"

member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist

zip's bf

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bluesky
if bluesky has a million haters I am one of them, if bluesky has one hater that's me, if bluesky has no haters then I am no more on the earth (more details: https://cohost.org/vogon/post/1845751-bonus-pure-speculati)
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seattle, WA

I have 5 meters of FEP tubing kicking around from a half-assembled Enraged Rabbit Carrot Feeder, that I got as a cheap substitute for teflon tubing, and I figured I could use part of it as a reverse bowden tube for the surprisingly long and elaborate filament path on the voron 2.4 (which has to go through a bulkhead and then around a 270-degree corner.)

unfortunately, while FEP is cheap and feels a lot like teflon tubing, it's significantly higher friction! and that means its practical bend radius for pulling filament through is nowhere close to what you can get out of PTFE -- I was having really awful underextrusion and jamming problems, particularly with PLA, until I swapped it out.


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