{"id":1670,"date":"2010-08-22T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2010-08-22T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T14:02:49","slug":"watertightish-mugs-then-extruder-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/archives\/1670","title":{"rendered":"Watertightish mugs then extruder fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I printed one minimug with a watertight base (but leaky walls), then another so watertight that I could fill it to around 80% before any leaking occurred, &#8230; and then my extruder pushed the heater barrel out , killing my extruder. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the first of those two minimugs:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cS3dMMNZ0P0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IB3sGzJtt6w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tu1niUeRQzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Look at the bottom of this mug:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_8A2F7CB6-D3FA-424B-BAA1-85DE21FFF956.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_8A2F7CB6-D3FA-424B-BAA1-85DE21FFF956-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_2048_1536_8A2F7CB6-D3FA-424B-BAA1-85DE21FFF956.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_25A475EA-17DD-414C-BFE7-1BB1836A9C0C.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_25A475EA-17DD-414C-BFE7-1BB1836A9C0C-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_2048_1536_25A475EA-17DD-414C-BFE7-1BB1836A9C0C.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1674\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_D1665FFC-C032-4797-9233-EDA29691B288.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_D1665FFC-C032-4797-9233-EDA29691B288-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_2048_1536_D1665FFC-C032-4797-9233-EDA29691B288.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I checked to see if it could actually hold water:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8VzTrMTVHM8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then I made another mug, this one was much better. JeffTry28:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7G8SLuiKjmE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Check it out!  It actually held some water!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_C9A618AE-B2BC-428C-B5ED-1B9019930A58.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_C9A618AE-B2BC-428C-B5ED-1B9019930A58-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_2048_1536_C9A618AE-B2BC-428C-B5ED-1B9019930A58.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1678\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I added even more.. As you can see, I got to around 80% full before it started leaking:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRLwesbDiF0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next day I tried printing more mugs, none of which really came out well. This one looked like Eraserhead:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/p_2048_1536_88767000-9EE7-442A-ACFD-69EF997F6655.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/p_2048_1536_88767000-9EE7-442A-ACFD-69EF997F6655-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"p_2048_1536_88767000-9EE7-442A-ACFD-69EF997F6655.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1681\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>..and then tragically, in front of a bunch of witnesses, the extruder barrel pushed right out of the PTFE, ending the life of this extruder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_B6A84603-AD47-4F7D-8FF9-1D98D8E82969.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_B6A84603-AD47-4F7D-8FF9-1D98D8E82969-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_2048_1536_B6A84603-AD47-4F7D-8FF9-1D98D8E82969.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_78C1D6CB-B110-4ED6-9C19-7883AD066037.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_78C1D6CB-B110-4ED6-9C19-7883AD066037-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_2048_1536_78C1D6CB-B110-4ED6-9C19-7883AD066037.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1686\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet taken it all apart to see how bad things are.  I knew the PTFE would give way at some point.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more details later.  If the PTFE glued into my extruder isn&#8217;t ruined, I&#8217;ll try repairing it, but if I can&#8217;t, I may use this as an excuse to just buy the printed pieces to a Wade&#8217;s extruder from Tony or someone (I have all of the rest of the pieces in an unopened McMaster box).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I printed one minimug with a watertight base (but leaky walls), then another so watertight that I could fill it to around 80% before any leaking occurred, &#8230; and then my extruder pushed the heater barrel out , &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/archives\/1670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myreprap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keegan.org\/reprapblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}