FJBen
SILVER Star
Got the water soluble support and been testing it over the last few days. My prints with the two materials and dual independent heads are starting to look really good. Almost finished product worthy but not quite. My last hurdle is oozing. Basically as one head (the rubber filament) is printing the other head (water-soluble filament) is hot and sitting idle. I am getting oozing out of the nozzle that then drips onto the part as the next head jumps into the print. It's basiclaly giving me freckles all over the part. I ordered some anti-ooze plates that step in and plug the head while sitting idle. Ordered those about an hour ago. Once those are installed, I am pretty confident we will have a quality looking rubber part that does everything it needs to do including being installed without any tools or removal of anything on the steering column. I will probably need one more week before I have that final prototype.; fingers crossed. For those of you who have zero clue as to what I just said; sorry. Just trying to keep everyone in the loop on progress. Basically, I need one more week before we should have a quality prototype to show off.
I think with all things in life…. Oozing = bad.
Thanks for the work on this totally random part that is NLA and never was in most of our cruisers, yet we want it.