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Saturday, June 2, 2012

More nozzle sizes available!




As mentioned in my previous post I have a new range of micro drills bits now in 0.5mm, 0.4mm, 0.35mm, 0.3mm and 0.25mm.
I also did get 0.2mm drill bits in, but I don't have a way to drill those holes successfully due to limitations on my lathe.

Out of interest, I did some simple calculations on the reduced area size for the smaller diameter nozzles compared to the 'standard' 0.5mm nozzle. The nozzle size is proportional to the layer height and width of the extrusion, so the percentage in the figure below is only an estimate of increased print time per layer. It doesn't take into account the increase in time in layer height. The last column shows an example with 10min print time with the 0.5mm nozzle. 

 
It'd be interesting to see what slic3r/pronterface gives for print times with different nozzles from the estimates.