{"id":83458,"key":"Open_Source_Pellet_Extruder_Tool_Head_for_a_Desktop_3D_Printer","title":"Open Source Pellet Extruder Tool Head for a Desktop 3D Printer","latest":{"id":1112094,"timestamp":"2024-06-18T20:43:06Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Project data\n| authors = User:Jafranz\n| status = Designed\n| years = 2019\n| made = No\n| replicated = Yes\n| cost = USD 100\n| type = Pellet extruder\n}}\n\nTo create an open source pellet extruder for an open source desktop 3D Printer.\n\n== Background ==\n\n== Problem Statement ==\n\n== Project Significance ==\n\nThis tool head once complete will be the first Lulzbot compatible FPF-style extruder assembly.\n\n'''Project Goals:'''\n\n# Design a tool head that can be used on a Lulzbot Taz 6\n#* Design uses components found on a standard Taz 6 tool head\n# Cost of toolhead less than $400\n\n'''Future Goals:'''\n\n# Tool head design adopted to other open source desktop 3D Printers\n\n== Bill of Materials ==\n\nThis project is still in development and the final bill of materials has not been finalized.\n\n== Tools needed ==\n\n# 3D Printer capable of printing PLA, ABS, and PETG\n# Electric Drill\n#* All drill bit sizes that will be listed in the BOM once finalized\n# Rotary tool (Rotozip, Dremel, anything similar)\n#* Sanding disks\n#* Endmills (Various carbide cutter used in carving out the aluminum heater block)\n# Digital Scale (0.01g increments and has a maximum reading of 100g)\n# Vise (used in securing the heater block when drilling, and carving the heater block)\n# Hammer\n# Tap wrench\n# Taps\n#* M6x1\n#* M3x0.5\n# Metric Hex Wrenches\n#* 3 mm, 2.5 mm, 2 mm, 1.5 mm\n# Fine tip Tweezers\n# Pliers\n# Auxiliary Lighting\n#* Any bright light that you can move around and have it focus on one area\n# Hacksaw\n\n== Technical Specifications and Assembly Instructions ==\n\nIn Process\n\n{{Page data\n| keywords = 3D printer modification, 3D printing, extruder, oshe, pla plastic\n| sdg = SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure\n| published = 2019\n| organizations = MTU, Michigan_Tech's_Open_Sustainability_Technology_Lab\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| language = en\n}}\n\n[[Category:3D printing]]\n[[Category:OSHE]]"}