Floppy Support

[exxos]

By moving I mean when it stops printing and moves to the next point to start printing again. It may not get much chance to do a Z Hop on a small piece like this.

All yeah, that's what I mean, I don't think there is a option this what I have found so far

[rubber_jonnie]

Are you prining direct, or creating a print file in Cura? Cura has a Z Hop option.

[exxos]

Are you prining direct, or creating a print file in Cura? Cura has a Z Hop option.

I'm not using cura, I am using flashprint... I dont know if cura supports my printer or not.. franky was to lazy to go looking, but flashprint seems to be fine (pretty much) which came with the printer.

[rubber_jonnie]

Ahh ok.

I'd have thought Z Hop must be an option somewhere.

[exxos]

This one is a lot better.. Screw fits through this time, and I managed to get a knife blade down the slots as well.. I think the filament speed I have probably loaded fraction too much as it almost looks like there is a crackdown side.. But I also lowered the temperature of the head a little bit as well.. But these can be adjusted back a bit anyway..

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It is actually a pretty good fit now...

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[rubber_jonnie]

So actually, the initial design looks to be sound then

Just needs a bit of tweaking for printing nicely.

[exxos]

So actually, the initial design looks to be sound then

Just needs a bit of tweaking for printing nicely.

Yeah, needs to be like 1mm taller.. also if you make the slots a tiny bit wider then I think it will help..

[rubber_jonnie]

I'm pretty chuffed for a first go though

[rubber_jonnie]

Nice work! Maybe you can make a second one with reduced height, since there are two different drive heights. The drives with the long eject button are a few mm higher thus need shorter posts.

I should do the same for the brass spacer replacement I made.

It's looking like the test one exxos printed is actually 2.5mm shorter than the one he has, so it is actually possible that the measurements I took are from a shorter long eject button drive. Difficult to know since some of my machines are made of bits I had lying around.

So I will make another, 2.5mm taller. I will also look at modding the slots for easier printing, and probably chamfer the part that goes into the board for easier insertion. I may remove the slots entirely.

[troed]

(I'll repeat that printing with PLA has much less issues than ABS in general. Use ABS where heat resistance is important)