Hello everyone!
So, widening the groove on the new direct drive extruder didn’t turn out well. Even with a larger cut-off disc, it was difficult to widen the hot end groove. I ended up cutting too deep and exposing some infill – not good, that would allow more heat to creep into the body of the extruder, probably eventually resulting in a meltdown.
So, as per usual it’s been busy for me, and unfortunately 3DP0 has been sitting idle for the past few weeks or so . Luckily, I snagged some vacuum bags and a couple of large moisture grabbers from the dollar store and had some extra desiccant packets lying around. This allowed me to finally store my unused filament without worrying about dust or humidity. Everything’s in a dark closet for now (I plan on buying some bins with lids to store them soon – maybe also a drying bucket / lamp setup too). Now, about that extruder…