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Beefier helical extruder gears for printrbot
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My redesign of the extruder gears for the printrbot to be stronger and easier to print.
The teeth are fatter and stubbier so that infill reaches into the teeth themselves much more completely. In making this happen I changed the gear tooth count; it's now 10 and 33 instead of 13 and 43, changing the ratio from ~0.3023 to ~.3030. This is pretty slight (0.23%), so we didn't bother to recalibrate our extruder, and the tooth counts are still coprime.
The base of the small gear has been widened
The teeth are fatter and stubbier so that infill reaches into the teeth themselves much more completely. In making this happen I changed the gear tooth count; it's now 10 and 33 instead of 13 and 43, changing the ratio from ~0.3023 to ~.3030. This is pretty slight (0.23%), so we didn't bother to recalibrate our extruder, and the tooth counts are still coprime.
The base of the small gear has been widened
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