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  1. Louis Tiger

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    I was wondering how much I would need to spend to upgrade the printer so it could produce 10mm gears and screws that could mesh together. Is this possible with just really good free mods and calibration?
     
    #1 Louis Tiger, Jul 26, 2015
  2. Mike Kelly

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    With a 0.4mm nozzle the smallest radius it can achieve is 0.2mm.

    Layer heights below .01 have been achieved on stock printers
     
    #2 Mike Kelly, Jul 26, 2015
  3. Louis Tiger

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    What are the settings that would allow that to happen?
     
    #3 Louis Tiger, Jul 26, 2015
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  5. Mike Kelly

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    Set the layer height to .01mm and adjust the other settings appropriately, such as top fill layer heights.

    Also calibrating your esteps per mm is very important.
     
    #5 Mike Kelly, Jul 27, 2015
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    One thing I will say is that I had to lower overall speeds as I upped the detail.
    It was pretty much a linear relationship with speed and layer definition.
    At 0.01 it will want to be moving rather slow.


    P.S. I got that advice from @tesseract and it payed out pretty well :)
     
    #6 mark tomlinson, Jul 27, 2015
  7. janot928

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    0,01mm..... gotts try that
    wich plastic did you use : pla/abs/something else
    and is the auto bed leveling usefull at those resolutions ? (assuming that the X axis is yell calibrated)
     
    #7 janot928, Sep 23, 2015
  8. mark tomlinson

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    Autoleveling is not critical for anything if you have the bed manually leveled.
    I used PLA. At those resolutions you can't tolerate any warp/curl.
    These days you would have many other choices that would be OK, you are not stuck with 'just' PLA.
     
    #8 mark tomlinson, Sep 23, 2015
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    PLA smells so good printing though. Pancakes. ABS i cannot stand the smell. Gives me a headache. Haven't tried XT or anything else really. I need to use these 20 spools of PLA first.
     
    #9 jbigler1986, Sep 23, 2015
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    Oiler makes it smell more like french fries :)
     
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  11. janot928

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    i am curently printing a karambit knife at 0.05 layer hight and i've already printed a chess piece at 0.025. The resluts are amazing but like @Mike Kelly said "Also calibrating your esteps per mm is very important." that also include the extruder calibration.

    I'll post some pictures once it finished (but the blade looks gorgous
     
    #11 janot928, Sep 27, 2015

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