Hollow shaft extruder

CNCModeller

If anyone is interested in getting one or two, please get in touch with me so we can organize a group order.

I'd be interested, I need a compact extrusion solution that I can embed in a much more complex print head. I have a hollow shaft stepper I've been playing with, but I'm guessing a closed loop brush less solution will have better performance.

I've only been following the thread superficially so I'd really appreciate if someone in the know could pull together a summary of relevant resources e.g. any cad for printed parts etc, hopefully the resources are Fusion 360 compatible so I can integrate them into my larger assembly.

I have both FDM and resin printers so should be ok to pull something together, albeit I'm maxed out on the day job at the moment so any progress at my end will be relatively slow.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated

All the best.
Barry M

tombrazier

@breed Cool. Are you Adam, then?

tombrazier

@o_lampe You're my only source at the moment. I am interested to see the difference between SLA and FDM. I find the latter works really well but it looks like the SLA print has higher resolution.

o_lampe

@CNCModeller said in Hollow shaft extruder:

I have a hollow shaft stepper I've been playing with, but I'm guessing a closed loop brush less solution will have better performance.

The BLDC version is not as compact and lightweight as the stepper because it needs a sensor and separate MCU&driver. I have a working unit with a Waveshare rp2040-zero and sFOC-mini. But the magnetic sensor doesn't work with the hollow shaft concept.

The AMT103-V is expensive and heavy. There is a lighter AMT102-V which could be interesting. But there is yet no design that fits the VDE-100 extruder.
I haven't bought any of these, because the 20€ shipping fee puts me off.
There are optical encoders too, but they need an enclosure...
The dice are still rolling

If you don't want to wait, you should go for a LDO hollow shaft stepper.

CNCModeller

@o_lampe thanks for the feedback, I'll stick with the stepper for now then.

I have ring based (CNC lathe spindle) magnetic encoders working on other prototypes but you are correct in that the additional mass for the sensor changes the equation.

Will keep an eye on what's happening here all the same.

I'm not timescale sensitive as the day job is really demanding at the moment, just trying to keep up with relevant community developments.

Many thanks
Barry M

o_lampe

I pushed myself over the edge and ordered an PD30 optical disk encoder with 512ppr.
The wiring and tech-specs are a bit confusing as usual. I hope it's an ABI type...

breed

@tombrazier Yep. I don't think I linked that correctly.

o_lampe

The bearings arrived and I made a big batch of both carrier versions.
It works nice and smooth spinning it by hand.
It's too early to review the threeBB. I'll let him do some weightlifting soon.

The carriers in the background are freebies for guinee pigs (a small donation for stamps and envelops is welcome) . They come without bearings tho.
PM me for details

I'll send five of each to @tombrazier, so users in UK may ask him...unless he wants to keep them all for himself

He might also be able to tell us more about the grinding process.

breed

@o_lampe What did the weight end up?

o_lampe

@breed I don't know if my scale would even notice it. Tom weighted his with 5grams.
I'll add an BLDC adapter and motor carrier for the smartEffector first.

tombrazier

@o_lampe said in Hollow shaft extruder:

He might also be able to tell us more about the grinding process.

My video shows how to do it with any old sanding disk or belt sander on just one side of the flange. The same method is easily adaptable for use with a Dremel cutting disk to grind both sides of the flange.

o_lampe

@tombrazier I was more concerned about the required diameter of the flange? In your video, you used very tight tolerances.

zero K

@o_lampe Wich Resin did you use?
The Temperatur near the Extruders is about 60 °C, sometimes higher.
Thats why I ´m a little bit worried about fixturing the skrews in the plastic.

May be I can try it with Formlabs dental materials.

This is a very nice Project - sorry about my english

Gruß zero K

o_lampe

@zero-K I'm using ABS-like which has a very high glass temperature. The Sherpa-Mini is made of it too and it works on my delta printer with NEMA14 stepper for about a year and hasn't shown signs of softening.
The BLDC motor doesn't even get warm because of sineWave FOC and a clever current control.

zero K

@o_lampe Thank you for your answer.
Phrozens Resin is cheap compared with them of our Formlabs printers.
I think, a foreign Resin can not be allowed in our Printers and post processing - not only because of bio compatibility - may be too - adjusting the parameters of Laser. For private use, some risk.

I will try it first with "Surgical Guide" - Only for testing I have sterilized parts out of this Resin 10 times 20 min at 134°C. I like this Resin very much. If a first try lasts 100 h printing, it would be a nice result because its quite brittle.

3D-printing is not my job - its like play ground and hobby.

I would let you know.

Gruß, zero K

oliof

@o_lampe I would be interested in a carrier (and a set of bearings ...). DM me for arrangement of exchange of goods or so (-:

oliof

@CNCModeller hi, I will be getting 5 samples from LDO, likely by end of September. Counting you, those samples will go to

@jay_s_uk
@tombrazier
@CNCModeller
@MaxGyver
@oliof

So this round is closed. Jason from LDO graciously will provide the samples for free, so please DM me your postal address and I will get back to you about shipping costs as soon as the samples arrive.

If these turn out to be good, MOQ for production unfortunately clocks in at 100 ... nothing I can spring from my own pockets.

tombrazier

@o_lampe In a way, the diameter itself is not all that important because you can just print a carrier to match whatever diameters your bearings came out at. e.g. one of the carrier models I sent you has bearing diameters of 9.88mm, 9.6mm and 9.1mm because, after a lot of experimenting, those were the bearings I had to spare. But if you can get them all to the same diameter it does simplify matters.

What does matter is that the edge is symmetrical. Bite depth is quite small. I use 0.1mm. So if the edge on the bearing is slightly ovoid or has flat spots you'll get bits where the extruder doesn't grip. My method of grinding produces a symmetrical edge quite reliably - as long as the bearing is free to rotate whilst it is being ground. With a bit of practice it's fairly easy. The time consuming part is when you're trying to get all the bearings to the same diameter and have to keep measuring.

tombrazier

@zero-K My extruder hardly warms up at all, but I am using a much higher torque motor than needed. The motor I have specced for LDO is going to run at higher current. But I think it will be able remain below 60°C, especially if you don't want to be extruding at speeds like 30mm^3/s. For a small amount more weight it would definitely be possible to keep temperatures nice and low.

breed

@tombrazier I was wondering about mf84 bearings. They are popular size in rc cars. Should have good selection of quality bearings.