I remember using your videos quite a bit while assembling my machines. The OEM instructions left a LOT to be desired, especially by this guy spoiled by PRUSA assembly guides. Unfortunately, even after extensive upgrades in the years since, It's still just not reliable and consistent enough for filament you can trust. Maybe if you used ONLY 100% virgin material pellets, but certainly not if you want to recycle material, which is what most people buy these things expecting to do.
It's still cheaper with virgin pellets. I basically never used these thanks to CoVid. You tried recycling? What was the problem with your prints from recycled materials? Really curious!
@@GordBuildLab A little cheaper, but once you account for the work you do to keep the thing running, let alone building it and getting it working, not so much. Yeah, my intention was to get it going for recycling, and I did. But, the problems were too numerous to continue. The biggest issue is that there's no "smart" tool to measure and make adjustments on the fly to maintain consistent diameter. Coupled with the anemic motor and atrocious auger and pipe combination, getting consistent filament out of inconsistent re-grind is just about impossible. Even when I did get usable material and could ignore the inconsistent diameter, it had adhesion issues. If you check my channel, I have a playlist of my filament recycling videos.
Interesting!
I remember using your videos quite a bit while assembling my machines. The OEM instructions left a LOT to be desired, especially by this guy spoiled by PRUSA assembly guides. Unfortunately, even after extensive upgrades in the years since, It's still just not reliable and consistent enough for filament you can trust. Maybe if you used ONLY 100% virgin material pellets, but certainly not if you want to recycle material, which is what most people buy these things expecting to do.
It's still cheaper with virgin pellets. I basically never used these thanks to CoVid. You tried recycling? What was the problem with your prints from recycled materials? Really curious!
@@GordBuildLab A little cheaper, but once you account for the work you do to keep the thing running, let alone building it and getting it working, not so much.
Yeah, my intention was to get it going for recycling, and I did. But, the problems were too numerous to continue. The biggest issue is that there's no "smart" tool to measure and make adjustments on the fly to maintain consistent diameter. Coupled with the anemic motor and atrocious auger and pipe combination, getting consistent filament out of inconsistent re-grind is just about impossible. Even when I did get usable material and could ignore the inconsistent diameter, it had adhesion issues. If you check my channel, I have a playlist of my filament recycling videos.
Can you relist on ebay? I'm willing to buy
It's relisted.