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  1. At technical point of view I don't see why not, the 6mm rods are easy to detach from the rod clamps so the print head can be detached pretty easy.

    I'ts more about the electronics and temp sensor of the E3D head that must be (made?) compatible with the UM2 PCB.

    Since I don't have an UM2 I cannot check this.

    If you don't have an conclusive answer from someone else by monday, I could ask it for you at the UM evening on the 6th.

     

  2. I'm also interested in conductivity :)

     

    ColorFabb was guest speaker at the Ultimaker evening in August and someone asked them the same question when they made the announcement of copperFill, the answer was unfortunately 'no'.

     

  3. Hello Theo,

    There are 2 more things that can cause the problem:

    1. the short belts are not tight enough, make sure the X and Y motor belts are tight, you may also check the pulley's attached on the motor shafts;

    2. Looking at the image I see that the print is shifting on both the X and Y axis, are the X and Y axis square to each other?

    Can you move the print head around it's axis when the printer is powered off and if so, is it hard to move the head around?

     

  4. It seems odd that the new layers start at such random location in the original image.

     

    That is a standard feature of Cura, in the older version this was called "Joris Plugin".

    Is is to prevent a visible scar when a new layer starts at the exact same point as the previous one.

     

  5. I'm testing copperFill at the moment and what I can say so far:

    The combination of speed and temperature for copperFill is not that different then any other filament.

    The most important thing is to keep the material not too long in the nozzle, the material needs to flow, otherwise the heat will go up to the teflon isolator coupler and the copperFill will stick to it.

    I've managed to print at speeds of 30mm/s up to 100mm/s with a 0.4mm nozzle.

    The material prints very nice and has a beautiful surface finish.

     

  6. Hello Arjan,

     

    Last night I printed the gcode file from the link you gave me.

    It made a terrible noise on my UM1 but I've printed it anyway.

     

    My goal was to print the file with the minimum temperature possible, not to get the best print.

    The settings during the print where as follows:

    At 3mm3/s Temp 236 Flow 100 Fan's off

    At 4mm3/s Temp 240 Flow 100 Fan's off

    At 5mm3/s Temp 247 Flow 100 Fan's off

    At 6mm3/s Temp 254 Flow 100 Fan's off

    At 7mm3/s Temp 258 Flow 100 Fan's off

    At 8mm3/s Temp 258 Flow 110 Fan's 30%

    At 9mm3/s Temp 258 Flow 116 Fan's 50%

    At 10mm3/s Temp 262 Flow 120 Fan's 50%

     

    At the image below you can see when (at the higher speeds) I've adjusted the temp, flow and fan's of the printer during the test.

    The layer adhesion is indeed poor, I can pull the layers of the entire testprint apart.

     

    IMG 1667

    Now as you said already, this is just one file.

     

     

    To be more conclusive, I've drawn a cilinder with a diameter of 60mm and a height of 75mm, like the test file.

    Cura settings: 245 temp, 0.2mm layer height, 1 perimeter, no infill, print speed 90mm/s and fan speed 30% after 3 layers.

    I've set the flow speed on the printer back to 100%.

     

    IMG 1668

     

    This file prints a lot better, I could set the temp a bit higher to get a more smooth surface, but this test was about layer adhesion.

    With this testprint I cannot pull the layers apart like the previous print.

    If the layer adhesion is not good, I should hear cracking when I bend the object, I didn't hear it after many tries.

     

    IMG 1669

    You can download the cilinder testfile from here if you want to give it a try:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1911369/Shared%20Files/60MM_Test_Cilinder.STL

     

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