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Bicycorn Bowden Tube Setup
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Ever wondered if you could use the cable housing from your bicycle brake as a bowden tube on your 3D printer? Well, you can!
What started out as a silly idea turned out to actually work. So much so that it now replaces my Capricorn bowden tubing because the bicycle cable housing simply outperforms it. I've now created adapters from PTFE bowden tube to brake cable housing, from extruder to brake cable housing and from M10 threading (V5 hotend) to brake cable housing. Someone once said: "If it looks stupid, but works... it's not stupid"
!!!ONLY USE IN HOTEND WITH ALL METAL HEATBREAK!!!
If you want to insert the cable housing all the way into the hotend/extruder, first mount the adapter in the hotend/extruder. Then push some ordinary PTFE tubing as far in as possible and measure how far the tubing can be inserted. Then substract 10 mm from that number. The distance you're left with is the distance of plastic of th
Ever wondered if you could use the cable housing from your bicycle brake as a bowden tube on your 3D printer? Well, you can!
What started out as a silly idea turned out to actually work. So much so that it now replaces my Capricorn bowden tubing because the bicycle cable housing simply outperforms it. I've now created adapters from PTFE bowden tube to brake cable housing, from extruder to brake cable housing and from M10 threading (V5 hotend) to brake cable housing. Someone once said: "If it looks stupid, but works... it's not stupid"
!!!ONLY USE IN HOTEND WITH ALL METAL HEATBREAK!!!
If you want to insert the cable housing all the way into the hotend/extruder, first mount the adapter in the hotend/extruder. Then push some ordinary PTFE tubing as far in as possible and measure how far the tubing can be inserted. Then substract 10 mm from that number. The distance you're left with is the distance of plastic of th
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