Idler does not grab filament

garethky / Slice-Mosquito-Direct-Tool-Head

Models and Instructions for making a Mosquito/Bondtech direct drive toolhead for the E3D Tool Changer platform

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Idler does not grab filament #7

Open im000000 opened 3 years ago

im000000 commented 3 years ago

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garethky commented 3 years ago

It looks like you are missing the bearing that supports the end of the shaft and stops it from deflecting away from the filament. Without that you can totally push the drive gear back and bottom out the idler. That would explain the issue you are having:

im000000 commented 3 years ago

Thx for catching this. It is very easy to overlook

garethky commented 3 years ago

I will take this as feedback to include a more detailed image of this step in the instructions.