gt2 pulley

[clue144 1]

i got a cheap prusa copy 3d printer. I'm trying to print gt2 pulley but don't think the teeth are deep enough. The timing belt just slides over, are there any good settings for printing pulley or are there any models with deeper teeth? all tips are welcome

 

[gr5 2,173]

You can makes some really really nice GT2 pulleys very easily in openSCAD which is free, open source, and light weight.  You won't have to learn openSCAD much since you won't be desigining in there - just using it to make pulleys.

 

I'm not certain where the library came from but here are some major hints at the top of the file:

// Parametric Pulley with multiple belt profiles
// by droftarts January 2012

// Based on pulleys by:
// http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11256 by me!
// https://github.com/prusajr/PrusaMendel by Josef Prusa
// http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3104 by GilesBathgate
// http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2079 by nophead

 

You can set things like number of teeth, pulley type (you want profile=12), shaft diameter and many others.

 

I've made several GT2 pulleys and right now am only using one of them with 200 teeth but these fit the belts very nicely and should work fine at a mere 40 teeth.  Maybe less.  Maybe only 20?

[clue144 1]

thanks for the answer, but think you misunderstand me. I don't get enough good printed pulleys, the teeth are too shallow

[clue144 1]

ok i downloaded openscad and im able to edit the depth, thank you!