42 minutes ago, gr5 said:I never heard of "layerceramic filament". Do you mean laybrick? I tried googling but didn't find anything (was lazy - only 10 seconds searching). Tell us more about this filament.
Did you try the existing feeder with this filament? Was there a problem? If you fight the feeder when the filament is only half way down the tube - how many kg of force does it take before the filament slips? Normally with PLA it's about 4-7kg. Is layerceramic extra flexible or does it have a hard outer surface?
Anyway the DDG feeder for UM3 works nicely. You can buy the DDG for UM2 if you only want to do feeder 1. The UM2+ feeder and the left feeder on the UM3 are identical.
Oh wait - maybe not. Because the instructions for DDG for UM3 have you change the steps/mm setting for both feeders - I can't see any way to change only one feeder steps/mm without also changing the other.
(filament is here) https://www.matterhackers.com/store/l/layceramic-3.00mm/sk/M7RE5J6P thank you for the tips, this filament is quite brittle (CLAY BASED) and needs to be pre-heated before extrusion, and have the force from the extruder gear dispersed as much as possible to avoid fracture
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I never heard of "layerceramic filament". Do you mean laybrick? I tried googling but didn't find anything (was lazy - only 10 seconds searching). Tell us more about this filament.
Did you try the existing feeder with this filament? Was there a problem? If you fight the feeder when the filament is only half way down the tube - how many kg of force does it take before the filament slips? Normally with PLA it's about 4-7kg. Is layerceramic extra flexible or does it have a hard outer surface?
Anyway the DDG feeder for UM3 works nicely. You can buy the DDG for UM2 if you only want to do feeder 1. The UM2+ feeder and the left feeder on the UM3 are identical.
Oh wait - maybe not. Because the instructions for DDG for UM3 have you change the steps/mm setting for both feeders - I can't see any way to change only one feeder steps/mm without also changing the other.
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